# Drawing a bar chart [Reference](http://wiki.pchart.net/doc.chart.drawbarchart.html) ```php require '/path/to/your/vendor/autoload.php'; use CpChart\Data; use CpChart\Image; /* Create and populate the Data object */ $data = new Data(); $data->addPoints([13251, 4118, 3087, 1460, 1248, 156, 26, 9, 8], "Hits"); $data->setAxisName(0, "Hits"); $data->addPoints(["Firefox", "Chrome", "Internet Explorer", "Opera", "Safari", "Mozilla", "SeaMonkey", "Camino", "Lunascape"], "Browsers"); $data->setSerieDescription("Browsers", "Browsers"); $data->setAbscissa("Browsers"); /* Create the Image object */ $image = new Image(500, 500, $data); $image->drawGradientArea(0, 0, 500, 500, DIRECTION_VERTICAL, [ "StartR" => 240, "StartG" => 240, "StartB" => 240, "EndR" => 180, "EndG" => 180, "EndB" => 180, "Alpha" => 100 ]); $image->drawGradientArea(0, 0, 500, 500, DIRECTION_HORIZONTAL, [ "StartR" => 240, "StartG" => 240, "StartB" => 240, "EndR" => 180, "EndG" => 180, "EndB" => 180, "Alpha" => 20 ]); $image->setFontProperties(["FontName" => "pf_arma_five.ttf", "FontSize" => 6]); /* Draw the chart scale */ $image->setGraphArea(100, 30, 480, 480); $image->drawScale([ "CycleBackground" => true, "DrawSubTicks" => true, "GridR" => 0, "GridG" => 0, "GridB" => 0, "GridAlpha" => 10, "Pos" => SCALE_POS_TOPBOTTOM ]); /* Turn on shadow computing */ $image->setShadow(true, ["X" => 1, "Y" => 1, "R" => 0, "G" => 0, "B" => 0, "Alpha" => 10]); /* Draw the chart */ $image->drawBarChart(["DisplayPos" => LABEL_POS_INSIDE, "DisplayValues" => true, "Rounded" => true, "Surrounding" => 30]); /* Write the legend */ $image->drawLegend(570, 215, ["Style" => LEGEND_NOBORDER, "Mode" => LEGEND_HORIZONTAL]); /* Render the picture (choose the best way) */ $image->autoOutput("example.drawBarChart.vertical.png"); ```