[plug] Reporting

[Simon Scott]

	What would be nice is a report generator that accepts some for of
XML report spec, and the dataset (maybe XML too?) and spits out XML ready
for rendering to HMTL or PDF

	Or am I dreaming?




	From:	John Breen <locutus at borg.apana.org.au> on 23-05-2001 09:26
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	Subject:	Re: [plug] Reporting

	Pick me, fat cat!

	You _seem_ to be right, though I believe the PDF functionality goes
a fair
	way towards solving the problem.  Has anyone else come across some
decent
	reporting tools?



	----- Original Message -----
	From: <Simon.Scott at flexiplan.com>
	To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
	Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 9:16 AM
	Subject: [plug] Reporting


	>
	>
	> Hi all
	>
	> Over the last coupla months I have been toying with implementing
an
	"accounting
	> system" (I used the term loosely) in PHP/Postgresql. Part of this
will be
	the
	> implementation of my own language (if people can remember me
blathering on
	about
	> it).
	>
	> The largest hole I have found in the 'free' software arena is a
solid
	reporting
	> tool. Nothing exists along the line of Crystal Reports/Oracle
Reports. I
	think
	> GNU have something resembling a reporting tool, but it is simple
at best.
	>
	> I would have thought that this problem would have been hit before
by
	almost
	> everyone. Am I missing something?
	>
	> How useful are the PDF functions in PHP? Would it be possible to
write
	something
	> functional just based on these?
	>
	> Is anyone interested in possibly starting something? I think its a
big
	hole we
	> need to fill.
	>
	>
	>
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