Re: Best reporting Tool

I have recently been creating reports using PHP's pdf libraries. Somewhat time consuming to develop them from scratch and the client has to have the acrobat reader, but they look slick, I must say. Another option is to create RTF or PDF templates and simply replace certain areas with your data. This might not be what you are looking for, but a couple of places to start: http://zope1.devshed.com/zope.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/PDF/page1.html http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/perugini20001026.php3 One nice thing about this is that quite a few people seem to be developing classes for this kind of reporting. Mohammad Saad wrote:

Hi, I wanted to ask a question, Whats the best way of developing reports in PHP. I mean in case of ASP, developers use Crystal Reports but apparently PHP doesn't support Crystal Reports. so is there any other tool for me? or should I use conventional method of writing database queries, PHP paging and HTML table formatting to generate reports. The reason I am asking is this, that for a particular project I need to come up with around 175 reports, Although am sure some of the reports formats will be the same so I can just switch queries in those. but still is there any other better way out, are Oracle Reports supported in PHP? Thanks in Advance Saad