Comments on: Google chart over HTTPS/SSL

By: jestep

jestep — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:23:50 +0000

It eliminates the error that the user would typically see. But, it is a non-secure connection between the server and google on the back-end.

By: Alon Raskin

Alon Raskin — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:20:39 +0000

Perhaps I am missing something but this doesnt really resolve the security question. Right? I mean the data is still transmitted in clear text between the server and the google charts server? Right?

By: chemicaloliver » Secure Graphs – Using Google Charts API over https using PHP and cURL

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 10:48:10 +0000

[...] then loading the file over https from your own site, indeed an example has already been published here but that example uses functions disabled on many web hosts (including mine) : file_get_contents() [...]

By: Brandon

Brandon — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:55:25 +0000

Great code!! Exactly what I needed. Thank you for posting for everyone use.

By: mikosh

mikosh — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:59:18 +0000

Thank you! That’s what i was looking for! i didn’t need to use https, but i needed to grab image chart and then include in pdf (with fpdf). Your trick works great.

$chart_image_url=’http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?…’;
$local_charts_path = ‘../img/charts/’;
$chart_image_name = ‘chart.png’; file_put_contents($local_charts_path.$chart_image_name,file_get_contents($chart_image_url));

then, after:

$pdf->Image($local_charts_path.$chart_image_name,10,10,120,20);