Hello. You can use Jasperreports. It is nearly identical to Crystal
Reports. Although it is java based, it has no problem for it to work with PHP.

Regards,

Almond Wong

At 9/18/2008 07:58 AM, you wrote:

>Looking for anyone who has done this to chime in with their
>recommendations...
>
>I have a client that wants us to develop a web hosted version of an old
>business application they had on a client/server network as a PHP
>application, hosted on our servers. It will (of course) be using Firebird
>SQL.
>
>All the functionality is a no-brainer. But I'm at a loss when it comes to
>giving them a report generator. They are used to Crystal Reports that they
>have run locally on their network. But our hosted server environment is
>Linux & Apache 2 and I took a look at the Java version of Crystal for it (so
>that it will run off the hosting server and be close to the data), but its
>way too pricey.
>
>How have any PHP/Firebird devs done this for their clients?
>
>Myles
>
>===============================
>Myles Wakeham
>Director of Engineering
>Tech Solutions USA, Inc.
>Scottsdale, Arizona USA
>www.techsolusa.com
>Phone +1-480-451-7440
>
>

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