polarbear/phpjasper

JasperReports integration with JavaBridge

PHP - JasperReports integration with JavaBridge

, _(*1)

This component is to run JasperReports reports in PHP with using JavaBridge., _(*2)

Why?

JasperReports is a great tool to generate reports with different output formats (for example: PDF, DOC, XLS), and it comes with a wysiwyg editor, JasperSoft Studio., _(*3)

Requirements

To get this work, you have to install JavaBridge and add required .jars from JasperReports., _(*4)

• JavaBridge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/php-java-bridge
• JasperReports: https://sourceforge.net/projects/jasperreports
• JasperSoft Studio: https://sourceforge.net/projects/jasperstudio

There is a script in the Resources/script dir to easily start the standalone JavaBridge server with the jar files included in the classpath, _(*5)

Install

Clone the project, _(*6)

    git clone https://github.com/polarbearhandler/phpjasper.git

Using composer, _(*7)

    composer require polarbear/phpjasper

For JavaBridge include you should set allow_url_include to On in php.ini, _(*8)

Limitations

Currently, the JavaBridge should run on the same machine. It's recommended to run the JavaBridge with the same user as your webserver (www-data), _(*9)

This library was tested with JasperReports 6.17.0, _(*10)

Test and usage

Just run the tests Check the test suite for an example how to pass datasource/parameters to the report, _(*11)

    phpunit src/