Creating Reports with PHP

From: Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 21:53:56 +0000
Subject: Creating Reports with PHP
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I am trying to find a systematic way to develop reports for our custom web app. What I've done in the past is basically create a query, dump it to an HTML table, and put a link to open the report in Excel. I would like to develop a report system that would allow a user (I have 2 advanced users that are comfortable at creating SQL queries) to copy-and-paste a query into a form, identify how the report should be grouped and add basic functions like sum() a particular column. Not an outstanding solution security wise. I'm currently investingating phpreports (http://phpreports.sourceforge.net/). It looks promising, but it's not working in my environment (Windows, SQL Server 2000)...yet. It's getting there, but are there any other "reporting" packages anyone could recommend? phpclasses.org had several, ,but they were MySQL specific. I'd like, ideally, to be able to use MSSQL,Postgres or MySQL (ADODB or PEAR). TIA, Mike Smith

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