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Inside this article, we will see the concept of Google Bar Chart Integration in Laravel 8. This article will be step by step graph integration.

Bar chart represents the information in very graphical view which provides the complete idea about data. We will use Google charts to add Bar chart into Laravel 8 application.

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Let’s get started.

Laravel Installation

We will create laravel project using composer. So, please make sure your system should have composer installed. If not, may be this article will help you to Install composer in system.

Here is the command to create a laravel project-

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog

To start the development server of Laravel –

php artisan serve

URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000

Assuming laravel already installed inside your system.

Create Database & Connect

To create a database, either we can create via Manual tool of PhpMyadmin or by means of a mysql command.

CREATE DATABASE laravel_app;

To connect database with application, Open .env file from application root. Search for DB_ and update your details.

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=laravel_app
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=root

Create Model & Migration

Open project into terminal and run this command to create model & migration file.

$ php artisan make:model Order -m

It will create two files –

Model – Order.php at /app/Models folder
Migration file – 2021_07_25_123805_create_orders_table.php at /database/migrations folder.

Open Migration file and write this complete code into it.

<?php

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

class CreateOrdersTable extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('orders', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->id();
            $table->string("product_name")->nullable();
            $table->string("product_id")->nullable();
            $table->string("price")->nullable();
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }

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

Open model file Order.php and write this complete code into it.

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Order extends Model
{
    use HasFactory;
}

Run Migration

Next, we need to create tables inside database.

$ php artisan migrate

This command will create tables inside database.

Dummy Data for Application

Here, you need to copy the given mysql query and run into sql tab of phpmyadmin.

--
-- Dumping data for table `orders`
--

INSERT INTO `orders` (`id`, `product_name`, `product_id`, `price`, `created_at`, `updated_at`) VALUES
(1, 'Product 1', '5483TY', '120', '2021-07-06 18:30:00', NULL),
(2, 'Product 2', '45TRGF', '523', '2021-07-08 18:30:00', NULL),
(3, 'Product 3', 'FDFG5656', '236', '2021-07-11 18:30:00', NULL),
(4, 'Product 4', 'FDGT677', '450', '2021-07-13 18:30:00', NULL);

You will see something like this after this test data insertion.

Create Controller

Next, we need to create a controller file.

$ php artisan make:controller OrderController

It will create a file OrderController.php at /app/Http/Controllers folder.

Open OrderController.php and write this complete code into it.

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use App\Models\Order;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class OrderController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
       $orders = Order::all();
       return view('google-bar-chart',['orders' => $orders]);   
    }
}

Create Blade Layout File

Go to /resources/views folder and create a file with name google-bar-chart.blade.php

Open google-bar-chart.blade.php and write this complete code into it.

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <title>Google Bar Chart Integration in Laravel 8 Tutorial</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.3.1/css/bootstrap.min.css">
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.gstatic.com/charts/loader.js"></script>
 
</head>
  <body>
    <h2 style="text-align: center;">Google Bar Chart Integration in Laravel 8 Tutorial</h2>
    <div class="container-fluid p-5">
    <div id="barchart_material" style="width: 100%; height: 500px;"></div>
    </div>
 
    <script type="text/javascript">
 
      google.charts.load('current', {'packages':['bar']});
      google.charts.setOnLoadCallback(drawChart);
 
      function drawChart() {
        var data = google.visualization.arrayToDataTable([
            ['Order Id', 'Price', 'Product Name'],
 
            @php
              foreach($orders as $order) {
                  echo "['".$order->id."', '".$order->price."', '".$order->product_name."'],";
              }
            @endphp
        ]);
 
        var options = {
          chart: {
            title: 'Bar Graph | Price',
            subtitle: 'Price, and Product Name: @php echo $orders[0]->created_at @endphp',
          },
          bars: 'vertical'
        };
        var chart = new google.charts.Bar(document.getElementById('barchart_material'));
        chart.draw(data, google.charts.Bar.convertOptions(options));
      }
    </script>
 
</body>
</html>

Create Route

Open web.php from /routes folder and add this route into it.

# Add this to header
use App\Http\Controllers\OrderController;

//...

Route::get('google-bar-chart', [OrderController::class, 'index']);

Application Testing

Run this command into project terminal to start development server,

php artisan serve

URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/google-bar-chart

We hope this article helped you to learn Google Bar Chart Integration in Laravel 8 Tutorial in a very detailed way.

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