phpreports 0.4.9 review

PHPReports project started when I needed something to create some reports on the browser as replacement of those ones my company used

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: TaQ

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PHPReports project started when I needed something to create some reports on the browser as replacement of those ones my company used to generate using tools like FoxPro, Visual Basic and all that m$ stuff you dudes know about.

I was starting PHP programming (still am) and was really excited about put all the info we need on the browser, but, no pain no gain, there's that kind of reports that needs to have grouping info, grouping break and all sort of grouping stuff including some operations like sum, max, min, average on group values. And printing !!! Breaking the report into pages to fit on the printer as the regular tools do.

It was perfectly possible using PHP, but a report is different from the other, and the customization of it using pure hand-made-code will take a time that I didn't, don't and won't have. So I decided to make it on a flexible way using XML files to make the report layout, creating PHP code to run it on the browser.

Now its easy to make reports - just define the report layout and put all the functions you want - simple, clean and easy. And the most important! Using this approach you can (I did) show your company that you dont need any other kind of software to make all the stuff you need (by, m$ stuff).

What's New in This Release:
Added 3 JavaScript events: ONCLICK, ONMOUSEOVER and ONMOUSEOUT;
Added the concept of input plugins. The first one convert the SQL query on a way it allows to show crosstab reports.