What is PHP Report Maker?
PHP Report Maker is an open-source PHP library that allows generating PDF and Excel reports from various data sources including MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL, SQLite, Oracle, and CSV files. It provides a simple API for custom report building and formatting using PHP, helping developers and businesses automate business reporting and documentation generation processes.
Some key features of PHP Report Maker include:
- Generating reports in PDF, Excel XLSX, Excel XML, CSV and HTML formats
- Support for multiple data sources: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL, SQLite, Oracle, CSV files
- An easy-to-use API for dynamically populating reports at run-time from PHP
- Tools for formatting and styling reports for custom branding
- Charts and graphs creation for data visualization
- Multi-language support for internationalization
With PHP Report Maker's simple PHP APIs, developers can programmatically populate templates with data pulled from databases to generate nicely formatted, customized, branded reports on the fly. It takes care of the report creation chore so developers can focus on the business logic.
Crystal Reports, Pentaho, Sisense, Valentina Reports, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence, Windward Core - Document Generation Component, GridGain In-Memory Data Fabric, LimeReport, xTuple OpenRTP, CuteReport, LogiXML, SharpDevelop Reports, Windward Solo are some alternatives to PHP Report Maker.