CF: Saving a Fusioncharts graph as an image to email it - coldfusion

Question

Does anyone have an example of this? Google is not my friend tonight. I have the newest version of FusionCharts. I'm trying to figure out how to save a graph as an image file to email it.
I know how to save and then insert images into HTML emails, and I've done this before with other graph products. I just cannot fine 1 good example of how to do this with Fusioncharts.
Thanks!

Answer 1

Use the following code in a template and point the imageSaveURL property at that template.
Your chart submits all necessary data for the chart to be reconstructed. In my example I'm serving it to the browser but you could save it locally and then attach to a cfmail if necessary.
I'm pretty sure I got this from the fusioncharts forums originally. This was updated for fusioncharts 3.1.
<cfif structKeyExists(Form, "width") >
<cfset width = int(Form.width) />
<cfelse>
<cfset width = int(Form.Meta_Width) />
</cfif>
<cfif structKeyExists(Form, "height") >
<cfset height = int(Form.height) />
<cfelse>
<cfset height = int(Form.Meta_Height) />
</cfif>
<cfif structKeyExists(Form, "data") >
<cfset Form.data = Form.data />
<cfelse>
<cfif structKeyExists(Form, "stream") >
<cfset Form.data = Form.stream />
</cfif>
</cfif>
<cfset user = viewState.getValue("user", structNew()) />
<!--- Impose some limits to mitigate DOS attacks --->
<cfif Not (0 lte width and width lte 5000)>
<cfthrow message="Width out of range." />
</cfif>
<cfif Not (0 lte height and height lte 5000)>
<cfthrow message="Height out of range." />
</cfif>
<!--- Check if we have the chart data --->
<cfif Not StructKeyExists(Form, "data") or Not Len(Trim( Form.data ))>
<cfthrow message="Image Data not supplied." />
</cfif>
<!--- Default background color is white --->
<cfif Not StructKeyExists(Form, "bgcolor") or Not Len(Trim( Form.bgcolor ))>
<cfset Form.bgcolor = "FFFFFF" />
</cfif>
<cfset gColor = CreateObject("java", "java.awt.Color") />
<cfset chart = CreateObject("java", "java.awt.image.BufferedImage") />
<cfset chart.init( JavaCast("int", width), JavaCast("int", height), chart.TYPE_3BYTE_BGR) />
<cfset gr = chart.createGraphics() />
<cfset gr.setColor( gColor.decode("##" & Form.bgcolor) ) />
<cfset gr.fillRect(0, 0, JavaCast("int", width), JavaCast("int", height)) />
<!--- Get rows with pixels --->
<cfset rows = ListToArray(Form.data, ";") />
<cfloop from="1" to="#ArrayLen(rows)#" index="i">
<cfset pixels = ListToArray(rows[i], ",") />
<!--- Horizontal index (x scale) --->
<cfset horizIndex = 0 />
<cfloop from="1" to="#ArrayLen(pixels)#" index="j">
<cfif ListLen(pixels[j], "_") eq 2>
<!--- We have the color and the number of times it must be repeated --->
<cfset color = ListGetAt(pixels[j], 1, "_") />
<cfset repeat = ListGetAt(pixels[j], 2, "_") />
<cfelse>
<!--- Background color; how many pixels to skip --->
<cfset color = "" />
<cfset repeat = ListGetAt(pixels[j], 1, "_") />
</cfif>
<cfif Len(Trim(color))>
<!--- If the hexadecimal code is less than 6 characters, prefix with 0 to get a 6 char color --->
<cfif Len(Trim(color)) lt 6>
<cfset color = RepeatString(0, 6 - Len(Trim(color))) & color />
</cfif>
<!--- Draw a horizontal line for the number of pixels we must repeat --->
<cfset gr.setColor(gColor.decode("##" & color)) />
<cfset gr.drawLine(JavaCast("int", horizIndex), JavaCast("int", i - 1), JavaCast("int", horizIndex + repeat -1), JavaCast("int", i - 1)) />
</cfif>
<cfset horizIndex = horizIndex + repeat />
</cfloop>
</cfloop>
<!--- Get writer for Jpeg --->
<cfset writer = "" />
<cfset iter = CreateObject("java", "javax.imageio.ImageIO").getImageWritersByFormatName("jpg") />
<cfloop condition="iter.hasNext()">
<cfset writer = iter.next() />
</cfloop>
<!--- Set Jpeg quality to maximum --->
<cfset jpgParams = CreateObject("java", "javax.imageio.plugins.jpeg.JPEGImageWriteParam").init( CreateObject("java", "java.util.Locale").init("en") ) />
<cfset jpgParams.setCompressionMode( jpgParams.MODE_EXPLICIT ) />
<cfset jpgParams.setCompressionQuality( 1 ) />
<!--- Write image to a memory stream --->
<cfset imageOutput = CreateObject("java", "java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream").init() />
<cfset writer.setOutput( CreateObject("java", "javax.imageio.stream.MemoryCacheImageOutputStream").init( imageOutput ) ) />
<cfset writer.write(JavaCast("null", 0), CreateObject("java", "javax.imageio.IIOImage").init(chart, JavaCast("null", 0), JavaCast("null", 0)), jpgParams) />
<!--- Stream the image to the browser (hint browser to display the Save dialog) --->
<cfset filename="whatever.jpg" />
<cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="attachment; filename=""#filename#""">
<cfcontent type="image/jpeg" variable="#imageOutput.toByteArray()#">

Answer 2

Checkout out the latest blog post Export Chart Images at Server Side where two options (wkhtmltoimage and PhantomJS. ) has been described with step-by-step instructions for both.
For ColdFusion, you can try the below code:
For example:
<cfexecute name="C:\Program Files\wkhtmltopdf\wkhtmltoimage.exe" arguments="--javascript-delay 10000 http://docs.fusioncharts.com/charts/Code/MyFirstChart/ms-weekly-sales-no-animation.html savedimage.png" />
While executing the above script, we provide the following arguments:
Call wkhtmltoimage
Pass the URL of your webpage to it
Pass the path and name of the image file (with extension) where the image will be saved
If required, any additional delay to ensure the chart is completely rendered.