How do I make web reports?

[dvilchez]

Hello again.

I would like to have a web interface (a PHP file running from a web browser, for example) that allows me to get reports from a data base (in localhost, for example).

Is this possible? What do I need to do, install or include? Is there any tutorial or example about this?

Thanks for your time.

[bugg_tb]

What?

[bugg_tb]

you shouldn't be so hard on yourself gutlez, you should say what you're thinking

[Taqua]

Hello again.

I would like to have a web interface (a PHP file running from a web browser, for example) that allows me to get reports from a data base (in localhost, for example).

Is this possible? What do I need to do, install or include? Is there any tutorial or example about this?

Thanks for your time.

Calling Java-Code from PHP is a difficult at best and usually closer to a nightmare than anything else.

If you want to use Pentaho Reporting seriously, then you *do* need a J2EE servlet container. Once you have that, you can include the reports via IFrames or any other method that you consider sensible for interacting with a third party web-application.

Unless you want to integrate Pentaho Reporting into a existing PHP application, I would suggest that you use a off-the-shelf Pentaho-BI-Server installation instead, instead of reimplementing the same functionality in a different language.