Worldbank API World Country Population Primer Tutorial
Today we’re revisiting the absolutely astonishing resource that the Worldbank API website provides. Such free public sources of data are very much appreciated in our books. Not so much in our pamphlets, but definitely in the books. Revisiting we thought, perhaps, we heard you ask … or were you passing wind? Glad you asked. Remember when we presented PHP Worldbank Growth of Merchandise Trade Tutorial, as shown below? Then, we used Google Chart Bubble Chart to present reams of information. Today, we again broach “reams” of Wordbank Population data per country to present a Google Chart Pie Chart report.
On our “first draft” of this web application project we create just the one pie chart, but we do that, along the way showing you a couple of things …
- the “reams” of data is processed on the understanding it could be sent to an HTML iframe as a URL plonked into that iframe element’s src property (as if), or if that URL is too long then that data is plugged into the HTML form and then sent (POSTed) to that same HTML iframe (whose name is the same as the form element’s target=name) via an HTML form element whose action property is set to …
//www.rjmprogramming.com.au/PHP/PieChart/pie_chart.php
- the data is presented in some way shape or form with the Pie Chart, but for all the advantages of lots of information in the one place, it does suffer a bit with clutter
… and so we try some strategies to help with those clutter issues above in blog postings to come.
In the meantime, why not try a live run of the underlying PHP (serverside) web application you could call worldbank_population_data.php featuring …
- use of PHP file_get_contents() to extract …
- JSON data is extracted and parsed to help piece together that URL to the Google Chart Pie Chart, as mentioned way above
Previous relevant PHP Worldbank Growth of Merchandise Trade Tutorial is shown below.
PHP Worldbank Growth of Merchandise Trade Tutorial
We’ve said it before, and (no doubt) we’ll say it again … there are great public data sources out there for you to explore.
As far as international data goes the Worldbank series of statistics is great, so, thanks.
Today we combine the Worldbank data for Growth of Merchandise Trade 2003-2013 with the wonderful Google Chart Bubble Chart to create (52 = (first letters of country name) 26 x 2 (concepts: Exports and Imports)) reporting charts of interest, we hope. Again, as with any reporting subject, it is a personal thing, whether the subject matter of a report is of interest, but you could say that about so many things in life.
So, we offer some PHP source code you could call growth_of_merchandise_trade.php and a live run link as well, the full loading of which requires patience.
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Tomorrow we go over what was needed to change PHP code above to be more mobile friendly …
- growth_of_merchandise_trade.php changes (to cater for select event (mobile touch) functionality) and live run link for yesterday’s web application
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