Re: Report generators: experience, recommendations?

On 2/13/2010 1:56 PM, Jonathan Sachs wrote:
> I'm looking for a report generator which will be used to create
> management reports for my client from a MySQL database. The web site
> is implemented in PHP.
>
> Some characteristics that would be nice to have, roughly in order of
> importance:
>
> * It is moderately priced (a few hundred dollars at most) or free.
>
> * A developer can easily learn to create moderately complex reports.
>
> * A developer can easily add code to provide functionality not
> supported by the generator.
>
> * The generator can be installed on a shared server (it doesn't
> require any unusual extensions or changes to php.ino or the server
> configuration.
>
> * A non-technical user can easily learn to create simple reports
> without help.
>
> A client-server solution is OK. The client has to run on Windows.
>
> I've found one PHP product so far, phpreports. There are many other
> reporting tools that might be suitable, but most of them seem to be
> written in Java, or else they're black boxes.
>
> Has anyone had experience with report generators that meet these
> criteria? What would you recommend; what would you stay away from?

Try Source Forge.....