IE problems - cache and SSL functionality

Great class.

I have made 1 minor change and added 1 cache functionality to make the graphs work with Internet Explorer. The graphs worked perfectly in Firefox, Chrome and Safari.

In IE the graphs would not show and it turned out that it was the & (ampersand) in the url. Made a str_replace just before the $url is returned to replace & with &
$url = str_replace ("&", "&", $url);

For SSL connections the graphs would not show in IE. This was weird. I ended up using a cache function which solved the issue.

In GoogleGraph.php I changed this
var $BASE_ADDRESS = "http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?";
to
var $BASE_ADDRESS = "chartCache.php?";

The content of file chartChache.php:

define ('CACHEFOLDER', '../chartcache/'); // I place this folder outside the root directory for added security - remember to chmod for write access
$url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$parts = parse_url ($url);
$query = $parts['query'];
$md5 = md5 ($query);
$image = @file_get_contents (CACHEFOLDER.$md5.'.png');
if (!$image) {
$image = file_get_contents ("https://www.google.com/chart?".$query);
$image = file_get_contents ("https://www.google.com/chart?".$query);
$handle = fopen (CACHEFOLDER.$md5.'.png', "w");
fwrite ($handle, $image);
fclose ($handle);
}
header ("Content-Type: image/png");
echo $image;

Hope this helps somebody.

Best regards
stubben

So I cannot handle tab and space on the keyboard... I apologize :-)

I wanted to give an example of another google url.

Instead of
$image = file_get_contents ("https://www.google.com/chart?".$query);
then you could use this, if you don't need or want SSL connection to google.
$image = file_get_contents ("http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?".$query);

No matter what, that line is only suppose to be written once!

Sorry for the confusion.

Best Regards
stubben

Great class.

I have made 1 minor change and added 1 cache functionality to make the graphs work with Internet Explorer. The graphs worked perfectly in Firefox, Chrome and Safari.

In IE the graphs would not show and it turned out that it was the & (ampersand) in the url. Made a str_replace just before the $url is returned to replace & with &
$url = str_replace ("&", "&", $url);

For SSL connections the graphs would not show in IE. This was weird. I ended up using a cache function which solved the issue.

In GoogleGraph.php I changed this
var $BASE_ADDRESS = "http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?";
to
var $BASE_ADDRESS = "chartCache.php?";

The content of file chartChache.php:

define ('CACHEFOLDER', '../chartcache/'); // I place this folder outside the root directory for added security - remember to chmod for write access
$url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$parts = parse_url ($url);
$query = $parts['query'];
$md5 = md5 ($query);
$image = @file_get_contents (CACHEFOLDER.$md5.'.png');
if (!$image) {
$image = file_get_contents ("https://www.google.com/chart?".$query);
$image = file_get_contents ("https://www.google.com/chart?".$query);
$handle = fopen (CACHEFOLDER.$md5.'.png', "w");
fwrite ($handle, $image);
fclose ($handle);
}
header ("Content-Type: image/png");
echo $image;

Hope this helps somebody.

Best regards
stubben