Michael Gale wrote:
Hello,
I am currently googling for this but ... I want to know what people think or have used to create reports in perl. Maybe creating some kind of graph or an excell report ?
I'm currently working on a text-based reporting module. It basically does what MS Access' reports to, only better :) It outputs directly to PDF, does page headers / footers etc. It's not exactly ready yet - I've got some *basic* reports working, but I'm not happy with the way they're made quite yet.
Anyway, if you're interested in it in it's current state, I can send you a copy. It doesn't do graphics ... yet. I'm considering it, but only when I get the text stuff stabalised.
For graphs, I've always used jpgraph. It's a php graphing library. You don't need a web server to use it - just a php installation. If I were to want graphs in my Perl apps ( I'm writing Perl-Gtk2 front-ends to our databases at work ), I'd just dump the data in a MySQL table with a unique name, then call jpgraph and point it to the MySQL table, output the graph to a png file, then pick that up in Perl and display it :) Honestly, jpgraph is pretty damned impressive - if you can find better in Perl, come back and tell us.
Dan
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