Laravel 9 Highcharts Example Tutorial

By Hardik Savani November 5, 2023 Category : Laravel

Hi Dev,

This tutorial is focused on laravel 9 highcharts. you'll learn laravel 9 highcharts ajax example. This post will give you a simple example of how to create chart in laravel 9. This post will give you a simple example of how to use highcharts in laravel 9.

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 9 app.

Step 1: Install Laravel 9

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']);

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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 9 Highcharts Example - ItSolutionStuff.com</title>
</head>
   
<body>
<h1>Laravel 9 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:

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http://localhost:8000/chart

Output:

I hope it can help you...

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