Something like Crystal Reports for PHP?

Question

I\'m looking for something that works in PHP and is similar to crystal reports. I basically need to have a layout setup that means I can output invoices just by inserting th

Answer 1

I have used the eclpse in php: "BIRT Project"

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

You design your report in Eclipse. Then upload it to your server (it must be running tomcat) I know. Then you can call that report from your php application you can send the parameters to the report through the query string:

/myreport.birt?param=var¶m2=var2

We have a 4 year application working like this so far. Around a 100 reports and it works really well.

Of course it is open source.

Good luck