Visualization API + Highcharts Options per chart [closed]

Question

It's possible to create good visualization graphs with Visualization API + Highcharts library but it seems overriding the chart options is not possible.

Highcharts API has tons of options such as (http://api.highcharts.com/highcharts#xAxis.tickInterval).

I want to set options for some charts not for all of them.

I created a views and visualize it. It's OK. I made some changes on highcharts.inc (modules/visualization/includes/plugins/highcharts.inc).

if (!empty($x_axis)) {
  $highchart->xAxis = (object) array(
    'categories' => $x_axis,
    'tickInterval' => "10",

  );
}

I added the 'tickInterval' => "10", line and it's working... but it's working for all charts. I want to set this options for only some charts. Is there a way to do this by for example adding a if clause with the views name I wanted to set the options?

I tried to add a line to the file ( if ($view->name == 'myview') { )

if ($view->name == 'myview') {
if (!empty($x_axis)) {
  $highchart->xAxis = (object) array(
    'categories' => $x_axis,
    'tickInterval' => "1",

  );
}
}

But it gives error as I expected: Undefined variable: view

Yes, here how could I made the highcharts.inc file understand the view variables or is there any other way to do this?

EDITED (the highcharts.inc is below ):

<?php
/**
 * @file
 * Library plugin for Visualization implementing support for Highcharts.
 */

class HighchartsHandler implements VisualizationHandlerInterface {

  protected $addedJavascript = FALSE;
  protected $available = FALSE;

  /**
   * Constructor for the Highcharts plugin.
   */
  public function __construct() {
    if (module_exists('libraries')) {
      module_load_include('module', 'libraries', 'libraries');
      $path = libraries_get_path('highcharts');

      $this->available = is_dir('./' . $path);
    }
  }

  /**
   * Renders a chart using Highcharts.
   */
  public function render($chart_id, $data, $options) {
    // Chart options.
    $highchart = new stdClass();

    // Chart.
    $highchart->chart = (object) array(
      'plotBackgroundColor' => NULL,
      'plotBorderWidth' => NULL,
      'plotShadow' => FALSE,
    );

    // Set title.
    $highchart->title = new stdClass();
    $highchart->title->text = $options['title'];

    $x_axis = array();
    if (!empty($options['xAxis']['labelField'])) {
      foreach ($data as $row) {
        $x_axis[] = check_plain(strip_tags((string) $row[$options['xAxis']['labelField']]));
      }
    }

    if (!empty($x_axis)) {
      $highchart->xAxis = (object) array(
        'categories' => $x_axis,
        'tickInterval' => "10",

      );
    }


    if ($view->name == 'myview') {
    if (!empty($x_axis)) {
      $highchart->xAxis = (object) array(
        'categories' => $x_axis,
        'tickInterval' => "1",

      );
    }
    }






    if (!empty($options['yAxis']['title'])) {
      $highchart->yAxis = (object) array(
        'title' => (object) array(
          'text' => $options['yAxis']['title'],
        ),
        'min' => "0", 
      );
    }

    // Series.
    $highchart->series = array();
    foreach ($options['fields'] as $name => $column) {
      if (!empty($column['enabled'])) {
        $serie = new stdClass();
        $serie->name = $column['label'];
        $serie->type = $options['type'];

        $serie->data = array();
        foreach ($data as $row) {
          $value = (int) $row[$name];

          if (!empty($column['enabled'])) {
            $serie->data[] = (object) array('name' => check_plain(strip_tags($row[$options['xAxis']['labelField']])), 'y' => $value);
          }
          else {
            $serie->data[] = $value;
          }
        }

        $highchart->series[] = $serie;
      }
    }

    $highchart->plotOptions = new stdClass();
    $highchart->plotOptions->pie = (object) array(
      'allowPointSelect' => TRUE,
      'cursor' => 'pointer',
      'dataLabels' => (object) array(
        'enabled' => TRUE,
        'format' => "<b>{point.name}</b>: % {point.percentage:.1f}"
      ),
      'showInLegend' => TRUE,
    );
    $highchart->plotOptions->bar = (object) array(
      'dataLabels' => (object) array(
        'enabled' => TRUE,
      ),
    );

    $highchart->credits = new stdClass();
    $highchart->credits->enabled = FALSE;

    // Rendering.
    $highchart->chart->renderTo = $chart_id;

    $information = array(
      'library' => 'highcharts',
      'options' => $highchart,
    );

    // Add Drupal.settings for this chart.
    drupal_add_js(array('visualization' => array($chart_id => $information)), array('type' => 'setting'));
  }

  /**
   * Includes global Javascript required by Highcharts.
   */
  public function postRender() {
    if (!$this->addedJavascript) {
      module_load_include('module', 'libraries', 'libraries');
      $path = libraries_get_path('highcharts');
      drupal_add_js($path . '/js/highcharts.js');

      drupal_add_js(drupal_get_path('module', 'visualization') . '/js/highcharts.js', array('scope' => 'footer'));

      $this->addedJavascript = TRUE;
    }
  }

  /**
   * Whether or not the plugin is avialable.
   */
  public function available() {
    return $this->available;
  }

  /**
   * Returns an array with supported chart types.
   */
  public function supportedTypes() {
    return array('line', 'column', 'pie');
  }

}

$plugin = array(
  'name' => 'highcharts',
  'label' => t('Highcharts'),
  'handler' => new HighchartsHandler(),
);

Answer 1

A few points on this:

1. I recommend not hacking drupal modules like that. You will quite possibly cause yourself troubles later on .
2. There are patches in the issue queue that allow you to better override charts without hacking the module. See https://www.drupal.org/node/1809850
3. It may be worth checking out other patches in the issue queue. There are a bunch of patches in there that are useful... which brings me to the most important point:
4. I would personally recommend not using the visualization module because it is not very actively maintained. In my experience you need a lot of patches and even then there are issues. I recommend instead using the charts module, which has better support for overriding charts and is more actively maintained.