Dear All,
I am looking for a tool which can help me generate reports and multiple types of charts. Can any one recommend based on their experience? I would like to manage to export minimal to excel and pdf too. I have seen one the php report maker unfortunately it does not have the pdf export functionality.
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Jump to PostThis one (RLib) is free. There are others that you'll have to pay for and you may find some other free ones with a search.
If you end up creating your own reports, then see my PHP help page (link in signature line below) for info …
Jump to PostFor reports, nothing beat crystal reports for ease of connecting to a database and outputting data you want.
For graphs, I would personally recommend the free version of fusion charts. (Which works in flash.) It's pretty good and works on xml.
Jump to PostDear newbie,
Yes crystal might not be suitable for you. There are many libraries for exporting to excel in php.
Is one such library. So it is just a case of your writing the code to interrogate the database and get the numbers …
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