creating a graph

[Jocka]

whats the best way to do this? I'm not sure I want to use premade scripts on a site I'm building.

I was considering the possibility of being able to create graphs without images, just css. Would this be possible?

Say I save information in the database such as hit counts, registered (how many registered), etc. Could I pull that down and create a graph with css to stretch a div field to a certain length according to how many hits there are ?

Or is there a better way to do this? I looked into JpGraph but it's just a tad bit slow for what I need. I need the graph done in at least 1 second, JpGraph was taking up to 30. I figure if I didn't create images then this would be easiest on the load time. Again though, if you have any other suggestions on a better way, then please let me know.

[Orio]

In about one month you will be able to find a good one here in PHP-freaks:
http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,115165.0.html

Orio.

[Jocka]

lol yea I saw that but like I said, I don't want to use premade scripts (anyone else's scripts). It might be a good script to look at to get an idea of how to do it with images but i'd prefer to do it without images right now. I found some things on google using CSS and it looked fairly easy to do so I think I'll go with it for now (easier is faster). After the competition is over i'll check out the scripts and see what they wrote that made them look so good.