如何从PHP连接ireports

Question

I am developing a web application with PHP and MySQL. Now I am facing problem with selecting the reporting tool. I am developing in Windows XP environment. But the hosting server is Linux. Therefore I have selected iReports as it has Linux version too.

I want at the clicking of a button from front end (which is written in PHP), the Jasper report should be generated. But how can I connect iReport with PHP code?

I have learnt that iReport can connect MySQL with JasperServer (Don't know yet, how) but need help to connect it from PHP front end.

Answer 1

Once you're hosting reports on the server, you could check out the PHP REST client on the JasperForge website.

Using this package, you could display a report from the server as follows:

<?php
require_once('client/JasperClient.php');

$jc = new Jasper\JasperClient('hostname', '8080', 'username', 'password', 
                              '/jasperserver');
$report = $jc->runReport('/location/of/report/in/repository', 'html');

echo $report;
?>

There are some docs that are packaged with the client that should be useful as well.