Open source PHP reporting tool

taras picture taras · May 28, 2009 · Viewed 51.6k times · Source

I am developing web based application, i need php reporting lib/class to make the job easy. I need PDF/Excel format. The report based on related db tables(member bills, member info) Is there any advanced open source solution ?

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Answer

Kris Erickson picture Kris Erickson · May 28, 2009

There are tons of reporting libraries, most of which create Xml or Csv. You would have to give more data about what kind of reporting you need for a recommendation. I haven't used PHPExcel yet, but it is the first attempt I have seen to actually create Excel documents rather than creating CSV's that will load in Excel. PDF creation is built into PHP with the PDF functions, and is fairly easy to do.