laravel 5 : Google Charts, Simple Geo Chart using Lavacharts in Laravel 5.3

Laravel 5.3 tutorial for beginners - Google Charts, Simple Geo Chart using Lavacharts in Laravel 5.3, Lavacharts is a wrapper for Google's powerful Javascript Chart API, More detail https://github.com/kevinkhill/lavacharts or http://lavacharts.com/

Laravel 5.3 Tutorial - Lavacharts is a wrapper for Google's powerful Javascript Chart API,
More detail https://github.com/kevinkhill/lavacharts or http://lavacharts.com/.

How to create simple Geo Chart using Lavacharts in Laravel 5.3?
First, you must have a database, i'm using MySQL database, just create "lavachart" database using MySQL.

Create Simple Geo Chart Project

cd c:\server\htdocs
....
composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel lavacharts

Create Connection to Database

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=lavacharts
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=yourpassword

Create Table and Migrations

php artisan make:migration create_table_charts_table

in Migration files, add this function to create charts table


<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;

class CreateChartsTable extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
      Schema::create('charts', function (Blueprint $table) {
      $table->increments('id');
      $table->string('country');
      $table->integer('users');
      $table->timestamps();
      });
    }

    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::drop('charts');
    }
}

Create Models

php artisan make:model Charts

Add this function to "Charts" model


<?php
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class Charts extends Model
{
  protected $table ='charts';
  public $fillable = ['country','users'];
}

Next, we will add Lavacharts into project,

Installing Lavacharts

First, copy this line into your project's composer.json file, in the "require": {} section,


"khill/lavacharts" : "3.0.*"

Next, run composer to download and install.


composer update

Register the service provider


Khill\Lavacharts\Laravel\LavachartsServiceProvider::class,

Create Controller

Create new controller following this command :


php artisan make:controller ChartsController

Next, add this function into our controller (ChartsController.php)

<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Http\Requests;
use App\Charts;
use Khill\Lavacharts\Lavacharts;
class ChartsController extends Controller
{
    public function chart(){
      $lava = new Lavacharts;
      $popularity = $lava->DataTable();
      $data=Charts::select("country as 0","users as 1")->get()->toArray();
      $popularity->addStringColumn('Country')
                  ->addNumberColumn('Users')
                  ->addRows($data);
      $lava->GeoChart('Popularity',$popularity);
      return view('charts.chart',['lava' => $lava]);
    }
}

Routes

create new routes

Route::get('charts/chart', 'ChartsController@chart');

Create Views
First, we will create new folder named with "charts" under resources folders, resources\views\charts.

Next, create new file (chart.blade.php) under charts folder resources\views\charts\chart.blade.php

Chart.blade.php

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
    <title>Simple Geo Map - Chart Map</title>
    <!-- Bootstrap -->
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap.min.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.4.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">
    <!-- HTML5 Shim and Respond.js IE8 support of HTML5 elements and media queries -->
    <!-- WARNING: Respond.js doesn't work if you view the page via file:// -->
    <!--[if lt IE 9]>
      <script src="https://oss.maxcdn.com/libs/html5shiv/3.7.2/html5shiv.js"></script>
      <script src="https://oss.maxcdn.com/libs/respond.js/1.4.2/respond.min.js"></script>
    <![endif]-->
  </head>
  <body>
    <div class="container">
      <div class="row">
        <div class="col-md-12">
          <h1>Geo Map using LavaCharts</h1>
          <div id="pop-div" style="width:800px;border:1px solid orange"></div>
            <?= $lava->render('GeoChart', 'Popularity', 'pop-div') ?>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
    <!-- jQuery (necessary for Bootstrap's JavaScript plugins) -->
    <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <!-- Include all compiled plugins (below), or include individual files as needed -->
    <script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>

Try and Error

Finally, try to open your project using Google Chrome Browser :


http://localhost:8080/charts/chart

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