[PHP] Reporting tools for PHP?

2003-01-30 Thread Denis L. Menezes
hello Friends? Is there any reporting toold for PNH/MySQL like there is Crystal Reports etc? Thanks denis

Re: [PHP] Reporting tools for PHP?

2003-01-30 Thread John Wells
Denis, I've been looking as well. My solution? Run Jasper Reports (http://jasperreports.sf.net) from a Tomcat container integrated with Apache via mod_jk.so. Don't have any reports finished yet, so not sure of speed, etc., but Jasper looks to be pretty full featured and it freely available.

Re: [PHP] Reporting tools for PHP?

2003-01-30 Thread Tyler Lane
On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 08:57, Denis L. Menezes wrote: hello Friends? Is there any reporting toold for PNH/MySQL like there is Crystal Reports etc? Do you mean PHP/MySQL? if that is the case, why not use Crystal Reports? Setup MyODBC for your MySQL server and use ODBC to connect to it using

Re: [PHP] Reporting tools for PHP?

2003-01-30 Thread John Wells
Because Crystal Reports is an overpriced rip-off. To get full web report functionality, you have to pay anywhere from $1-$10 for their enterprise edition. If you pay anything less, you're limited to only three connections. Why buy anything when good open source solutions exist? Makes

Re: [PHP] Reporting tools for PHP?

2003-01-30 Thread Tyler Lane
I didn't comment on the price of Crystal Reports. I was informing the poster that it is possible to use Crystal Reports with mysql. As for using open source tools, I totally agree with using OpenSource whenever possible. On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 11:27, John Wells wrote: Because Crystal Reports is