Thanks for responding Lee. What about using Microsoft SQL Reporting Services with PHP? See, I've never used Crystal or anything like it, so all this is pretty new to me. I'm unsure of how I connect my web app to a report template or skeleton (for lack of better terms). How do I call the report? How do I feed it data? I'm a bit lost in this respect no matter which report builder I end up using. So if you have thoughts on those sorts of questions, I'd love to hear them.
Thanks heaps, Chris On 8/23/07, Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Microsoft SQL Reporting Services is free with SQL and it > is a lot like Crystal. You use Visual Studio as the report > builder and it works well and ports to the Web. The only > problem is that I have yet to hear about anyone using > ColdFusion to display the reports on CF Web pages. > > > > On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:21:45 -0500 > "Christopher Jordan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I'm in need of a visual report builder. Can anyone tell > >me if they have > > experience with either Adobe's Report Builder (which > >I've downloaded and > > played with a little bit) or Jasper Reports/iReport? > >We're up in the air > > over using PHP or CF. I'm pushing CF and my boss is > >pushing PHP (*sigh*). > > He's also insistent on being able to build the report > >visually, like he does > > in Fox Pro, or like using Crystal (except that's too > >expensive). I almost > > think I've got him convinced that we need to use CF, but > >he's pushing back > > hard on me to come up with reasons why we can't use PHP > >(not really why CF > > would be better, but why PHP would be worse/slower). > >I've already mentioned > > to him that Jasper is written in Java and that CF can > >talk natively to all > > the objects, and that to do the same in PHP requires a > >third party (all be > > it open source) PHP/Java bridge, and then jumping > >through several hoops. > > This only turned him off to the idea of JasperReports, > >not to the idea of > > using PHP. > > > > Any information on how folks are typically generating > >complex reports > > (visually) would be great. Heck any help in general > >would be fantastic. > > > > Thanks, > > Chris > > > > -- > > http://cjordan.us > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:286996 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
