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Posted by Kristian Terziev
Kristian Terziev
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Laravel - ish question.

Hello,

So I am building a website with laravel 5.1 and I have already built the front end. I used AdminLTE template for the admin panel and I want to use a chart to show the site views over the last months. AdminLTE uses morris.js (http://morrisjs.github.io/morris.js/) for the charts and as shown in the documentation the data is saved as an array of objects like this:

data: [
                { year: '2008', value: 100},
                { year: '2009', value: 10 },
                { year: '2010', value: 5 },
                { year: '2011', value: 5 },
                { year: '2012', value: 20 }
            ],

I want to adapt this for site visits but thay are saved in a database. So my question is should I use the controller and return them with the view and then echo that data in the array or should I make an AJAX request.