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[newphpcoder]

Good day!
I upgrade my version of mysql from mysql 4.1.10 to mysql 5.0.15. Now I used phpmyadmin to access my database using XAMPP. Now, I need to create a report generation and I have no idea how I can do that. What are the requirements and configuration I need to do? Is it a free application like a crystal reports that I can download? Or should I create my own report generation using php?
I found codes for report generation and honestly I can’ understand the whole codes because I am a beginner in using php.

Thank you in advance

[DEViANT]

Reports for what?

[WingedPanther]

Generally, PHP can be used to extract the data and format it in an HTML table.

[Takumi]

PHP can be used to print things on the website. You can create a function to print this report on the website:

<?php

function report($message) {

echo $message;

}


report("Hello world");

?>

or just print it immidiatly:

<?php

echo "Hello world";

?>

[Orjan]

Takumi said:

PHP can be used to print things on the website. You can create a function to print this report on the website:

<?php
function report($message) {
echo $message;
}

report("Hello world");
?>

or just print it immidiatly:

<?php
echo "Hello world";
?>

um... yes? do you know what a report generator is? what it does? just printing isn't especially hard. it is everything else around the printing itself when making a report generator that is hard. it's many levels of abstraction to think of, and to make it generic isn't either so easy...

A report generator is a software which takes a database and does a selection of fields in one or more tables and groups the data in one or more levels based on user input.

[Takumi]

Orjan said:

um... yes? do you know what a report generator is? what it does? just printing isn't especially hard. it is everything else around the printing itself when making a report generator that is hard. it's many levels of abstraction to think of, and to make it generic isn't either so easy...

A report generator is a software which takes a database and does a selection of fields in one or more tables and groups the data in one or more levels based on user input.

Yes.. I know that, but I didnt understand what he means with report generator. I just gave basic information on how to create such an script.