On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Pierre Cauchois <cauchoip@esiee.fr> wrote:
Thanks for your answers. I've looked to everything you suggested, but many of the solutions were in Java, Pascal, or even worse, proprietary software.
The use of Java isn't so bad. But I was concerned to see the Kylix/Delphi/Pascal suggestion.
... It can be a good example for a front-end, but i think that it's for the best if the engine is directly integrated in Koha,
There are several open source report writers. Incoprorating theminto Koha might prove to be a better solution. Here's some URLs form my bookmarks. http://datavision.sourceforge.net/ Uses Ruby http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/timc/gurgle/ Uses C/C++ http://agata.codigolivre.org.br/ Uses PHP/Tk
therefore to use a backend in Perl, and a frontend with templates, with export possibilities (rss, csv, etc).
A search of cpan.org found me several Perl-specific report writer modules that already have hooks into Perl DBI. Using one of those would surely be better than starting from scratch. Then effort could be put into providing a sensible web interface. Regards, Trevor <>< Re: deemed!