RE: [PHP] Creating a report in PHP
| From: | Jon Haworth | Date: | Mon, 09 Dec 2002 15:39:28 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Creating a report in PHP | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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Hi Todd,
> Is there a "report generator" that will give me the
> flexibility to use fonts and fontfaces that works with
> PHP and MySQL?
I don't know of a PHP-based report generator (although a hunt round
sourceforge might turn something up), but you can:
1. use PHP scripts to output your reports in HTML, with CSS for styling and
layout
2. use a standalone reports package like Crystal Reports which will talk to
MySQL directly
3. build an MS Access front-end to your MySQL tables and use its native
reporting functions
At $WORKPLACE we have a number of reports generated as HTML pages by PHP
scripts - these are the ones that get run many times on a daily basis and
always look the same - and Crystal installed on the managers' PCs for ad hoc
reporting.
Cheers
Jon