It's not just the calculation of the reports, but also the presentation. PHP is
certainly capable of producing nice reports. But tools like Crystal Reports have
their place. If you can find me another tool that can easily produce publication
quality reports (headers, footers, proper page breaks and page numbering etc) I'd like
to hear about it!
Regards,
Gary Huntress
Code 4113
Naval Undersea Warfare Center
Newport, RI 02841
1-800-669-6892 x28990
-----Original Message-----
From: Werner Stuerenburg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 10:09 AM
To: Mazur
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re[2]: Reporting Tool : Linux?
> I just figured I can't be the first guy on the block that wants to design
> reports out of MySQL without using Windows. I mean, I recall MySQL boasting
> that NASA uses MySQL...what the heck do they use for reporting? Of course,
> I suppose if you have MySQL on an NT machine, you can add Crystal
> Reports.....
I would never get the idea to use a tool for that. Why? First,
you have to master the tool. Next, if you do, you can only do
what the tool allows you to do.
It is much easier to do your own reporting with php (or Perl, if
you prefer that). It's a snap, and you can do anything you like.
I guess, that's the way all the experts do it.
Read the entertaining and instructive article at
http://www.mysql.com/articles/wizard/
--
Herzlich
Werner Stuerenburg
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