Forum:How to: Display data from an XML feed as a chart on a wiki page

At w:c:vsk:User:Najevi/sandbox7 I am attempting to display a chart based on data available via an RSS feed. I need help figuring this out.


 * The graph is dynamically created at http://vsksailing.com/vsk-server-trends.php using raw data available as an RSS feed from http://vsksailing.com/xml/server.xml
 * That raw data is refreshed/updated every hour.
 * The image for the graph is created using an external website's PHP script at http://vsksailing.com/admin/dev/index1b2y.php?days=2 and it seems that I cannot simply refer to that URL at a wiki page on wikia and have the image render successfully.

Can you think of any clever way to convert the raw XML data into a graph at a wiki page hosted by wikia?

I have reviewed mw:Extension:Graph, mw:Extension:GraphViz, mw:Extension:Semantic_Graph, and mw:Extension:WikiPlot but none of these seems to address the very basic charting such as this column plus line graph.

The image I wish to display at the wiki is refreshed every hour but for the purpose of the wiki I need only update the graph every 24 hours. (I would then refer the reader to the source website for a more recent graph.)

Any guidance/recommendation will be appreciated.

-- najevi 04:34, August 2, 2010 (UTC)