CFC wrappers for ChartJS - easily draw bar charts, pie charts, line graphs, and scatter plots

chartjs-cfc makes it easier to use ChartJS in your ColdFusion/Lucee projects. It supports bar graphs, horizontal bar graphs, line graphs, pie charts, and scatter plots and a limited set of ChartJS display options. It uses patternomaly to automagically generate textures as well as colors for your charts.

Install ChartJS and patternomaly. Get them from npm or include from a CDN:

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/patternomaly.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Chart.js/2.7.3/Chart.bundle.min.js"></script>

Init a bar chart:

<cfset myData = [
    [12,10,14,15,10],
    [20,9,23,16,18],
    [3,7,4,5,6]
]>
<cfset dataLabels = [ "January","February","March","April","May" ]>
<cfset datasetNames = [ "Boys","Girls","Adults" ]>
<cfset myBarChart = new chartjs-cfc.BasicChart( data=myData, dataLabels=dataLabels, datasetNames=datasetNames )>

Output a <div> element containing the chart <canvas> and the <script> to draw it:

#myBarChart.draw( title="Attendance by month for Boys, Girls, and Adults", width=75 )#

The <div> is relatively positioned and scales against its parent element. init() and draw() accept a variety of arguments to customize chart type and appearance. See examples

• Add support for time scaling
• Show point labels on scatter plots and provide more display options
• Automatically add line dashing to multi-dataset line graphs
• Automatically calculate range of axes
• Generate aesthetically pleasing color palettes rather than picking from a list