Building Dashboards With PHP and Flex

Let's face it: Interactive graphs and dashboards have never been easy to put together on the web. Sure, there are graphing libraries out there for PHP, but to get something that looks really good and that a user can play with has been tough. Or at least, it was yesterday. Today, I show how to use a combination of PHP for the back end and Adobe Flex for the front end that will put interactive 3D within your grasp. Right now. Today. Let's dig in. To start, I needed some data. So, I put together a simple database called traffic that has one table called traffic that lists the number of page views and such for each day.

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