How to Add Charts in Laravel using Highcharts?
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I am going to explain to you example of how to use highcharts in laravel. you can understand a concept of how to add highcharts in laravel. we will help you to give an example of laravel add highcharts. I would like to share with you laravel highcharts data example. follow the below example for laravel highcharts example tutorial.
you can simply use Line Charts, Bar Charts, Pie Charts, Area Charts, etc using highcharts js.
Highcharts is a js library, this library through we can use bar chart, line chart, area chart, column chart, etc. Highcharts is a open-source chart library. Highcharts also provide several theme and graph that way you can use more chart from here : HighCharts Site.
In this example, we will create some dummy users records and then we will display a line chart with all months of current years. so let's follow the below step and add a chart in your laravel app.
Step 1: Install Laravel
This is optional; however, if you have not created the laravel app, then you may go ahead and execute the below command:
composer create-project laravel/laravel example-app
Step 2: Create Route
first of all we will create simple route for creating simple line chart. so let's add simple routes as like bellow:
routes/web.php
<?php
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
use App\Http\Controllers\HighchartController;
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Web Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which
| contains the "web" middleware group. Now create something great!
|
*/
Route::get('chart', [HighchartController::class, 'index']);
Step 3: Create Controller
Here, we will create new controller as HighchartController. so let's add bellow code on that controller file.
app/Http/Controllers/HighchartController.php
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Models\User;
use DB;
class HighchartController extends Controller
{
/**
* Write code on Method
*
* @return response()
*/
public function index()
{
$users = User::select(DB::raw("COUNT(*) as count"))
->whereYear('created_at', date('Y'))
->groupBy(DB::raw("Month(created_at)"))
->pluck('count');
return view('chart', compact('users'));
}
}
Step 4: Create Blade File:
here, we need to create blade file and in this blade file we use highchart js and use their code.
resources/views/chart.blade.php
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Laravel Highcharts Example - ItSolutionStuff.com</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Laravel Highcharts Example - ItSolutionStuff.com</h1>
<div id="container"></div>
</body>
<script src="https://code.highcharts.com/highcharts.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var users = {{ Js::from($users) }};
Highcharts.chart('container', {
title: {
text: 'New User Growth, 2022'
},
subtitle: {
text: 'Source: itsolutionstuff.com.com'
},
xAxis: {
categories: ['Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec']
},
yAxis: {
title: {
text: 'Number of New Users'
}
},
legend: {
layout: 'vertical',
align: 'right',
verticalAlign: 'middle'
},
plotOptions: {
series: {
allowPointSelect: true
}
},
series: [{
name: 'New Users',
data: users
}],
responsive: {
rules: [{
condition: {
maxWidth: 500
},
chartOptions: {
legend: {
layout: 'horizontal',
align: 'center',
verticalAlign: 'bottom'
}
}
}]
}
});
</script>
</html>
Step 5: Create Dummy Records:
Here, we need to add some dummy records on users table as monthly wise.
you can create dummy records using laravel tinker command as bellow:
php artisan tinker
User::factory()->count(30)->create()
You need to create users on each month with created date as like bellow screen shot:
Run Laravel App:
All the required steps have been done, now you have to type the given below command and hit enter to run the Laravel app:
php artisan serve
Now, Go to your web browser, type the given URL and view the app output:
http://localhost:8000/chart
Output:
I hope it can help you...
