Is there a good (and hopefully free?) source library to use for PHP for creating and displaying reports? I would love one that would allow the user to view it in a nice format for saving and printing (like PDF?).
Also I would prefer one that is just files, not one that needs to be installed on the server itself as some of the people I create sites for are on shared server hosts.
Don't know if you would call this reporting but I have found these gems over the years:
http://pchart.sourceforge.net/
http://devzone.zend.com/article/4044-Dynamically-Generating-PDF-Files-with-PHP-and-Haru-
http://phppowerpoint.codeplex.com/
http://phpexcel.codeplex.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phprtf/
http://www.phpconcept.net/pclzip/index.en.php
http://www.maani.us/charts4/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcpdf/
http://code.google.com/p/ofcgwt/w/list
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpreports/ <-- Just found this
Here is a pdf generating library for PHP http://www.fpdf.org/ .
I have looked at a few in the past, here is 2 that I recall (and was able to search for quick):
http://www.hkvstore.com/phpreportmaker/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/repgen/
PHP Reportmaker is pretty good. Not sure if it fits the bill of what you want tho.
Examples are here:
http://www.hkvstore.com/phpreportmaker/features.asp
FPDF combined with PHPMyGraph for creating bars etc.:
http://phpmygraph.abisvmm.nl/
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I came across EtherPad but found out shortly afterwards that it has been shelved by Google.
Is there something else that I could use that allows people to collaborate on an online document? It must have version control.
Should I redevelop something instead?
Andre
Try Etherpad Lite, its much leighter than the original Etherpad
TypeWithMe is a slightly modified version of Etherpad. It's pretty darn good. Oh but, you need to view the document every once in a while or itll get wiped.
I'd recommend Google Docs. You can create new, upload existing, and collaborate online on files like documents, spreadsheets, presentations and drawings. Take a look at their Youtube page for a demonstration.
It seems like MobWrite http://code.google.com/p/google-mobwrite/ is a good solution. Just wish it had the versioning information etc that EtherPad had. Does anyone agree or have something better to embed in a PHP and mySQL website?
EtherPad is still available for buidling and deploying and it even have some seldom commits. If you want to use as an user, there are a few deployments of Etherpad (or perhaps modified versions of it) such as:
PiratePad
MoPad
Besides that, there is a quite comprehensive list of possibilities in this wikipedia entry for collaborative text editing software
As strange as I find this, I have not been able to find a good PHP function anywhere which will do an intelligent parse of a user agent string? Googled it for about 20 minutes now.
I have the string already, I just need something that will chop it up and give me at least browser/ver/os.
Know of a good snippet anywhere?
The get_browser() function has been available in PHP for quite a long a time.
The PHP manual is free, can be downloaded in various formats and viewed online (with comments)
https://github.com/browscap/browscap-php - this is a standalone library that aims to replace get_browser function. For shared hostings it seems to be a better option.
Works on: PHP 5
You can try to use: https://github.com/tobie/ua-parser. This is multi-language tool to parsing user agent string. For PHP is here: https://github.com/tobie/ua-parser/tree/master/php
Try out ThaDafinser/UserAgentParser it's an abstraction for many available user agent parsers.
So if you are not happy with one - just switch to another (or combine them)
You can try it out here
There is a PHP class library i found out, and it has worked so well for me. It is in the link below.
https://www.toms-world.org/blog/parseuseragentstring
It is lightweight and just does what I wanted (Browser, Version, OS, Mobile/PC, and much more) in a memory-friendy manner.
I'm writing a WordPress plugin to create an eBook from a selected category in most major eBook formats. I would like to support MobiPocket since that's the format used by the Kindle but I'm not sure how to go about it. From what I've read .mobi files are actually Palm Resource Databases (PRC) but I haven't been able to find a PHP class to work with these.
I thought about using exec along with KindleGen but that would be undesirable as it would complicate initial setup. I've also thought about hosting a web service somewhere and using XML-RPC to accomplish this but that also complicates things.
My question is: is there a PHP class/library (PHP-only preferred) that can work with PRC or even better, a class that specialises in creating MobiPocket ebooks? (needs to be open source since I'm releasing under the GPL)
I've tried searching but haven't been able to find anything.
I don't know whether you're still looking for this PHP library, but just in case: https://github.com/raiju/phpMobi. This is a library that creates mobi files from html files.
It's should still be seen as an experimental version, but it should work without a problem for basic document with a few images.
Unfortunately not; however, the binary compiled format is an open specification available at:
http://www.mobipocket.com/dev/article.asp?BaseFolder=prcgen
The only direct way of transforming the uncompiled format is using the native XML functionality of PHP to create them and then invoking a compiler with exec, which I understand you don't want to do. If you go with this route, the link above also has details about this XML format.
You might want to try the mobiperl tools,
https://dev.mobileread.com/trac/mobiperl/wiki
Please note I haven't tested them yet. But they have been
around since at least 2007 so they should work well by now.
google "Mobiperl - Perl tools for handling MobiPocket files" to
find a thread on mobileread board discussing it. As a new
poster I can't put 2 hyperlinks into my reply.
Another tool I have recently found (but not yet tested), is: http://www.phpclasses.org/package/8173-PHP-Generate-Kindle-ebook-file-in-mobi-format.html#files
It is based upon KindleGen, and looks pretty straight forward to implement.
Do you know of any websites that allow users to share there custom PHP functions and code snippets other then? It would be nice to compile a list of a few good resources
http://www.phpclasses.org
Might be obvious to some, but don't forget to include http://pear.php.net/ in your list. ;-)
There is Snipplr.com - A public source code repository for sharing code snippets.
Back in the day when I built some PHP3 sites,
PHP Builder was the place to go. They are still live, but URL shows a number instead of domain name :)
http://63.236.73.209/snippet/
Hot Scripts is one of the biggest sites to my knowledge. There is commercial and free code (easily sortable).
And you should probably make this Community Wiki.
How can I make a PDF file in PHP. What I want to make is a student list. So I want to query the database, get the information and give it to the user as a PDF when he clicks generate student list.
You have two good options first is the standard php library for manipulating pdf's: http://us2.php.net/pdf
Or you can use http://www.fpdf.org/. I would recommend the second.
Other options include:
www.pdflib.com
PEAR has the PEAR::File_PDF package.
There are are already many libraries available with PHP bindings. One that comes to mind is PDFLib (www.pdflib.com). If I am not mistaken there should even be a lite version that you can use for free. But just check it out.
Hope it helps
I use the ezPDF class. Lightweight, simple, easy to use, and handles most cases.
FPDF is a classical in the field. It seems it has limitations when handling Unicode (eg. Asian char sets), so there are libraries extending it (UFPDF, TCPDF...).