Posted by Tamer Higazi on 07/19/07 23:56

I haven't seen something professional on PHP. But I advise you,
something to use in COMBINATION WITH PHP.

I advise using BIRT with PHP through the PHP/Javabridge:

http://php-java-bridge.sourceforge.net/

then get eclipse and install it's addon BIRT (Business Intelligent
Report Tool).

BIRT:
http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/

Write the routine and make some public method's public for that you can
access from PHP the method's of your compiled class.

writing complex application's in PHP alone, won't make it. With Java you
have everything you can easily compete against .NET:

Here a wonderfull article.

http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/node/3172

Ones I wrote a small searchengine to reverse opening Word documents with
the openoffice JavaApi. The result's i got it on the screen with php.
funny stuff.

Tamer

Al Franz wrote:
> What are the popular commercial/open source reporting tools that can be used
> for mySQL/PHP development ? Something that will make it easy for me to
> achieve professional looking query list output. Thanks.
>
>

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