On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:22:54 +0000 (GMT) "Trevor Jenkins" <trevor.jenkins@suneidesis.com> wrote:
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Pierre Cauchois <cauchoip@esiee.fr> wrote:
I've been thinking of coding a reports engine for a few days, but i'm sure i'm not the only one to have ideas about that, so i'd like to know what you think about it, and if something has already been done.
Do you mean a "reports engine" similar to the Crystal Reports or ReportSmith products for Windows? If so I'm willing to help. I'd be very interested to help if this report engine were also usable outside of Koha.
well, i don't know these softwares but from what i found on the web, the idea would be the same, except that it would be free software :). my idea is to build a web interface (a form) interpreted by a perl script to build a query, and then output it in a rss config file. The output of this query would be formatted in rss (that's a XML defined format). Parsing the XML file is not the goal of the engine, though we could provide some kind of stylesheet. comments and critics? /pierre