I wish to create a forum that has a graph or some type of visual aid that shows how many members the forum has?

Question

I wish to create a forum that has a graph or some type of visual aid that shows how many members the forum has?

What kind of platform/service should I be using to create an interactive graph that shows the total number of members in a forum such as MyBB.

Answer 1

I would recommend looking at plotly's javascript library to create the graph itself. You would be able to do most of your work in MyBB templates.

You would just need to write your own MyBB plugin to write the info you want graphed into the javascript.

So for example you'd have a MyBB template that looked like this:

<script src="https://cdn.plot.ly/plotly-1.2.0.min.js"></script>
<script>
    TESTER = document.getElementById('tester');
    Plotly.newPlot( TESTER, [{
    x: {$xvals},
    y: {$yvals} }], {
    margin: { t: 0 } } );
</script>

And in your plugin, you'd have some php code that sets those values:

$xvals = "[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]";
$yvals = "[1, 2, 4, 8, 16]";

prior to evaluating your template.