Jaime Chavarriaga wrote:

> Lester
>
>>Anybody found a decent tool for adding reports to a PHP application?
>
> You can try several PHP or Java Projects...
>
> == PHP Projects
>
> Agata... PHP-Gtk, with extensions for Web display
> http://www.agata.org.br/us/index.php
> http://www.agata.org.br/us/install_lin.php

Looked good - and then it asked for ODBC :)
I don't think I need ANOTHER interface into Firebird.
And now I've played with it - no paper formated output.

> Phpreports...
> http://phpreports.sourceforge.net

Very poor and will not actually produce reports, only grids on web page.

> Rlib...
> http://rlib.sicompos.com

Linux Only - No Windows module. Looks like odbc again for Firebird.

> == Java Projects

How the **** do I run ANOTHER application environment on top of Apache/PHP?

> JasperReports
> http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/
> With eclipse plugin
> http://www.jasperassistant.com/

This was looking favourite, but I'm not sure it's any easier than just
hooking up FastReport ;) And I've already paid for that.

> Datavision
> http://datavision.sourceforge.net

Much the same again

> Jfreereports
> http://www.object-refinery.com/jfreereport/

Swing Table mode interface? Yet another 'standard' - No thanks ;)

Thanks for the pointers, a couple I had not seen before, but looking
further into these Java ones, they are just totally unusable with PHP as
far as I can see. I have the data, I don't need additional JAVA
interfaces to get at it.
I'll have to see if I can use a back end with ADOdb - that would address
most of my problems, and give me something I can view or print.

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