13.7. Troubleshooting input data
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## 13.7. Troubleshooting input data

There are two common mistakes that causes problems with input data.

1. The indexes in the data array has missing keys. The library assumes that the data array has consecutive values indexed from 0 and upwards. This means that the following data array specification is illegal

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       $data = array( 1 => 23, 2 => 14, 3 => 17 ) ;

   The problem with the array above is that it lacks the 0 key. A similar problem is to have a missing index, such as

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       $data = array( 0 => 23, 2 => 14, 3 => 17 ) ;

   If `E_NOTICE` is not enabled in `php.ini` then this mistake will give the (slightly misleading) error message shown in Figure 13.7. If full error checking is enabled in php.ini then these types of problem will give the standard PHP error message shown in Figure 13.8. This shows a PHP setup which has HTML errors enabled. Note the JpGraph textual error string at the bottom of the second PHP error message box.

   Figure 13.8. PHP (HTML) error when missing data keys

2. Another typical mistake caused by "faulty data" is different convention for specifying decimal data. PHP and the library assumes that decimal data used "." (point) to separate the integer from the decimal part of a number. Some locales uses "," (comma) to do this separation. This means that the following code will not work.

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       $data = array( 0 => '12,0', 1 => '18,0', 2 => '15,0' ) ;

   Again, if `E_NOTICE` is not enabled in `php.ini` then this mistake will give the (slightly misleading) error message shown in Figure 13.7

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