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Open-source free Flash Charting Component
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FusionCharts Free is an open-source flash charting component. It can be used to render data-driven & animated charts for your web applications, desktop applications and presentations.
It is a cross-browser and cross-platform solution that can be used with PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, ColdFusion, Python, RoR, simple HTML pages or even PowerPoint Presentations to deliver powerful Flash charts. You do NOT need to know anything about Flash to use FusionCharts Free. All you need to know is the language you're programming in.
- What are the features available in FusionCharts Free?
- Who can use FusionCharts Free?
- What purpose can FusionCharts Free be used for?
- So what more do I get if I use FusionCharts v3?
What are the features available in FusionCharts Free?
Though FusionCharts Free and FusionCharts v3 are vastly different products, they have a lot of features in common. FusionCharts v3 generally sports a more robust set of features and functionalities than FusionCharts Free. Of these, the ones that are most common and necessary have been made available in FusionCharts Free.
FusionCharts Free provides you the necessary chart types and features that cover all your basic charting needs. Some of the highlights are:
- Provides 22 popular charts like Column, Line, Pie, Bar, Doughnut, Area, Stacked, Candlestick and Funnel Chart.
- Animated charts which create the “wow” experience.
- Lots of interactive features like tooltips, hot-spots within the charts and invoking a JavaScript function.
- The charts can be implemented independent of the script or the back-end database used.
- The charts are Flash-based and need Flash 6 to run.
- Charts partially support AJAX functionality.
- ASP and PHP APIs are provided for easy implementation
For more chart types and advanced options, please take a look at FusionCharts v3 or a product comparison between FusionCharts Free & FusionCharts v3 in our Free vs Paid comparison section.
Who can use FusionCharts Free?
FusionCharts Free can be used by any web developer, designer or business user, who wants to plot enticing charts & graphs for his web applications or presentations. Technically, FusionCharts can be used by anybody with any server-side technology or with static HTML pages. We provide libraries and documentation for:
- ASP.NET Developers - Using C#, VB.NET, JScript.NET or any other .NET compatible language
- ASP Developers
- PHP Developers
- JSP & Java Developers
- Ruby on Rails Developers
- Designers and non-programmers, who are looking to implement charts and graphs in their static websites
- General users who want to use these charts in PowerPoint Presentations
Also, there are no license restrictions regarding FusionCharts Free that bars anybody from using it. And to re-iterate, it’s completely free.
What purpose can FusionCharts Free be used for?
The use of FusionCharts Free is bound only by your imagination, and no other constraints, whatsoever. Whenever you need to give a lively face to boring data tables, FusionCharts Free can play an active role. FusionCharts Free is ideal for:
- Business Monitoring and Reporting Applications, where charts and graphs are an integral part of the application.
- Digital Dashboards and Executive Information Systems, where charts represents various KPIs
- Content and Knowledge Management systems, where statistical views are required
- Network monitoring applications
- Surveys and Polls
- Scientific research and experiments, where data is to be visually represented
- PowerPoint presentations, where you need to visually depict the data
- ... and anywhere where you need slick charts to represent your data.
You can even OEM FusionCharts Free and distribute with your open or closed source applications free of charge. Take a look at our terms of use for the same in our licensing section.
So what more do I get if I use FusionCharts v3?
If you’re already excited after seeing what FusionCharts Free has to offer, let’s give you a taste of what FusionCharts v3 suite has to offer:
- FusionCharts v3 offers over 45 types of 2D/3D charts, which includes general charts like Column, Line, Area, Bar, Pie & Doughnut and unique charts like Combination, Scroll, Glass-Effect Column, Bubble & Scatter Charts.
- FusionCharts v3 can be integrated with a myriad of web technologies like ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, Ruby on Rails, Python or even simple HTML pages.
- It works with all databases including MS SQL, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, CSV or even legacy data storage.
- All charts come with drill-down features and the ability to support hotspots.
- All the charts are fully AJAX-enabled which allows you to change them at client-side without you having to refresh the page they are embedded in, thus reducing the load on the server.
- The functional and cosmetic aspects of each chart can be extensively customized using the XML API exposed by FusionCharts.
- A variety of style effects such as shadow, bevel, glow etc can be applied to individual components of the charts.
- Animation supported by default in all the charts. Also, custom animations can be created very easily and applied to chart objects.
- Ability to export the chart as Image/PDF and the chart data as CSV/XML
- Easier server side implementation with extensive APIs.
- Detailed documentation on every aspect of FusionCharts v3.
...and that’s just a small peek into the plethora of features available in FusionCharts v3.
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