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javascriptforeachchart.js
Ben Parsell
Ben Parsell

Reputation: 75

Adding a for loop/foreach loop for Charts.js

I'm attempting to add in a foreach, or for loop within the code below, to create multiple datasets for charts.js. This will allow me to create multiple lines on this line graph.

I have a PHP object that I can encode to fill in variables later on, but how and where can I inject a loop to only create multiple datasets?

<script>
var chart1Handler = function() {
var data = {
    labels: {!! json_encode($month_array) !!},
    datasets: [{
            label:'',
            fillColor: 'rgba(220,220,220,0.2)',
            strokeColor: 'rgba(220,220,220,1)',
            pointColor: 'rgba(220,220,220,1)',
            pointStrokeColor: '#fff',
            pointHighlightFill: '#fff',
            pointHighlightStroke: 'rgba(220,220,220,1)',
            data: {{ json_encode($new_taco) }}
    }]
};

var options = {

    maintainAspectRatio: false,

    // Sets the chart to be responsive
    responsive: true,

    ///Boolean - Whether grid lines are shown across the chart
    scaleShowGridLines: true,

    //String - Colour of the grid lines
    scaleGridLineColor: 'rgba(0,0,0,.05)',

    //Number - Width of the grid lines
    scaleGridLineWidth: 1,

    //Boolean - Whether the line is curved between points
    bezierCurve: false,

    //Number - Tension of the bezier curve between points
    bezierCurveTension: 0.4,

    //Boolean - Whether to show a dot for each point
    pointDot: true,

    //Number - Radius of each point dot in pixels
    pointDotRadius: 4,

    //Number - Pixel width of point dot stroke
    pointDotStrokeWidth: 1,

    //Number - amount extra to add to the radius to cater for hit detection outside the drawn point
    pointHitDetectionRadius: 20,

    //Boolean - Whether to show a stroke for datasets
    datasetStroke: true,

    //Number - Pixel width of dataset stroke
    datasetStrokeWidth: 2,

    //Boolean - Whether to fill the dataset with a colour
    datasetFill: true,

    // Function - on animation progress
    onAnimationProgress: function() {
    },

    // Function - on animation complete
    onAnimationComplete: function() {
    },

    //String - A legend template
    legendTemplate: '<ul class="tc-chart-js-legend"><% for (var i=0; i<datasets.length; i++){%><li><span style="background-color:<%=datasets[i].strokeColor%>"></span><%if(datasets[i].label){%><%=datasets[i].label%><%}%></li><%}%></ul>'
};
// Get context with jQuery - using jQuery's .get() method.
var ctx = $("#chart1").get(0).getContext("2d");
// This will get the first returned node in the jQuery collection.
var chart1 = new Chart(ctx).Line(data, options);
//generate the legend
var legend = chart1.generateLegend();
//and append it to your page somewhere
$('#chart1Legend').append(legend);

};

</script>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 7112

Answers (1)

trajchevska
trajchevska

Reputation: 952

You can create your dataset array in your PHP code and pass it to the JS as json. You will then simply need to parse it before using.

In PHP:

$datasets = [
    [
        'label'=>'',
        'fillColor'=> 'rgba(220,220,220,0.2)',
        'strokeColor'=> 'rgba(220,220,220,1)',
        'pointColor'=> 'rgba(220,220,220,1)',
        'pointStrokeColor'=> '#fff',
        'pointHighlightFill'=> '#fff',
        'pointHighlightStroke'=> 'rgba(220,220,220,1)',
        'data' => [1,2,3]
    ],
    [
        'label'=>'',
        'fillColor'=> 'rgba(220,220,220,0.2)',
        'strokeColor'=> 'rgba(220,220,220,1)',
        'pointColor'=> 'rgba(220,220,220,1)',
        'pointStrokeColor'=> '#fff',
        'pointHighlightFill'=> '#fff',
        'pointHighlightStroke'=> 'rgba(220,220,220,1)',
        'data' => [1,2,3]
    ]
];
$datasets = json_encode($datasets);

In JS:

var data = {
    labels: {!! json_encode($month_array) !!},
    datasets: JSON.parse('<?=$datasets?>')
};

BTW I think it's worth mentioning that a JS array is not treated the same way as a JSON string, even though they look pretty similar. So, even though I haven't seen much details of the implementation, I assume that you need to pass an array instead of JSON as value for labels. You can use the same approach as with the datasets here as well.

Upvotes: 4

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