Thanks Dean, > I have no idea about the dot matrix printers. But generally I do > all my reporting using PHP. At the end of the day flex is in a > browser and you are going to be limited by that. I'm sure PHP > can produce a format that would work well for a dot matrix printer. > If not, you could always have a TCP server written in any language > to allow Flex to send data to it for reporting. This would be done > using socket code in Flex. This also requires the server to accept > a request for a security policy on a specific port. I will look > for details on that.
Well, I was bit worried about Flex's capacity to produce reports I dont mind about PHP producing reports in text format if it can write text file on server which can be fetched to client via FTP or if PHP can produce PDFs that can serve purpose of Windows graphis mode printing. The data exports to xls, dbf, ods etc. etc. still remain. I dont know what to do about. For sec of discussion how about using Birt on server to produce reports? have u given any thought to this ? But again we have to have Java at server. Can PHP send data to any program on server to produce reports then we can use delphi exe to run in wine and listen to TCP port on Linux Server and if its windows server then it can run natively. I dont know what reporting strategies are followed by ppl developing web applications. I dont have any experience in web development but there must be some way to produce reports, Since all over the world big web database applications are already running. BTW how u are doing reports I will follow your suit till we find some generous way for elegant reporting in flex. Thanks once again and best regards Raja
