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<html><head><metahttp-equiv="Content-Type"content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>Chapter1.About the library</title><linkrel="stylesheet"type="text/css"href="manual.css"><metaname="generator"content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.76.0"><linkrel="home"href="index.html"title="JpGraph Manual"><linkrel="up"href="pt01.html"title="PartI.Installing and verifying the configuring"></head><bodybgcolor="white"text="black"link="#0000FF"vlink="#840084"alink="#0000FF"><divclass="navheader"><tablewidth="100%"summary="Navigation header"><tr><thcolspan="3"align="center">Chapter1.About the library</th></tr><tr><tdwidth="20%"align="left"></td><thwidth="60%"align="center">PartI.Installing and verifying the configuring</th><tdwidth="20%"align="right"></td></tr></table><hr></div><divclass="chapter"title="Chapter1.About the library"><divclass="titlepage"><div><div><h2class="title"><aname="chap_about"></a>Chapter1.About the library</h2></div></div></div><divclass="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="ch01.html#id2472291">1.1. What is JpGraph?</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="ch01s02.html">1.2. Software license</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="ch01s03.html">1.3. Versions of the library covered</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="ch01s04.html">1.4. Purpose and usage</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="ch01s05.html">1.5. Prerequisites for running the library</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="ch01s06.html">1.6. Who can use the library</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="ch01s07.html">1.7. What you can do with the library</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="ch01s08.html">1.8. What you shouldn't or cannot do with this library</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="ch01s09.html">1.9. Feature-matrix for the library</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="ch01s10.html">1.10. Where to find additional information</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch01s10.html#id2474782">1.10.1. Manuals and distributed documentation</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch01s10.html#id2474831">1.10.2. On-line documentation and resources</a></span></dt></dl></dd></dl></div>
<ptitle="What you will learn in this chapter">
<b>What you will learn in this chapter.</b>
This chapter will go through what the library is, the licensing model, how it is
typically used and the detailed steps of installing it. This chapter will not
explain how to use the API in the library. It will help answering typical questions
such as "<spanclass="emphasis"><em>Should I use this library?</em></span>", <spanclass="emphasis"><em>"Is the library
suitable for use in my particular environment?</em></span>, <spanclass="emphasis"><em>"Do I have
enough knowledge to use this library?"</em></span>
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<divclass="sect1"title="What is JpGraph?"><divclass="titlepage"><div><div><h2class="title"style="clear: both"><aname="id2472291"></a>What is JpGraph?</h2></div></div></div>
<p>The JpGraph library is a 2D graph plotting library for PHP5(>= 5.1) and PHP7.0. It is meant
to significantly simplify the creation of dynamic graphs using PHP scripting. The
libray can be used on its own or as an embedded part of a large WEB development
undertaking. In addition the library allows images to be created using the command
