All ChartDirector database sample codes described in this documentation are based on a MySQL database. The sample codes are provided for reference purposes. To actually run the sample codes, you would need to set up your database system as follows:

• Verify that your PHP has MySQL extensions installed
  
  
• Set up a MySQL server to run on the same machine as the web server
  
  
• Create a database called "sample" in your MySQL server
  
  
• Create an account with username "test" and password "test" that can be used to access "sample".
  
  
• Import the table "sample.sql" (located in the "phpdemo" subdirectory) into the "sample" database

The sample database that contains only one table called "Revenue". The table stores the monthly revenue data for three business units - Hardware, Software and Services. It contains four columns as follows:

Column Name	Type
TimeStamp	Date/Time
Hardware	Number
Software	Number
Services	Number

Each row in the database table contains monthly revenues for the business units, where the date is stored in the "TimeStamp" column. The sample database contains rows from Jan 1990 to Dec 2001.