Looking for report designer that works with PHP

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imok
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Looking for report designer that works with PHP

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I am looking for a GUI report designer application similar to crystal reports so I dont have to handcode reports. Does anyone know of such a beast? I dont want CR, it is unwieldy and was not designed for developers. I prefer something developer friendly like datadynamics.com ActiveReports. Unfortunately that one only works if you have VB or .NET. and doesnt work on Linux.
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Ollie Saunders
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You won't find anything faster than writing it yourself. Unless you don't know the languages.
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ole wrote:You won't find anything faster than writing it yourself. Unless you don't know the languages.
I respectfully disagree. I have been programming for years in various languages and using tools to design reports or HTML or data entry screens is always faster than handcoding. I think one of the best ones is Datadynamics.com . They have integrated it with the VB language so you dont have to learn some weird language like Crystal does.

Would be nice if there was something similar for PHP. Draw the report and add PHP code behind it.

MS has published XML specs for RDL (Report Definition Language) used in this freebie utility
http://www.fyireporting.com/

If someone takes the RDL output of this application they can run PHP to read the schema and create a PDF on the fly. I know its some work but its doable.

Any takers? :)
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Tell me more about the kinds of reports you want to generate.
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