PHPJasper

A PHP Report Generator

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About

PHPJasper is the best solution to compile and process JasperReports (.jrxml & .jasper files) just using PHP, in short: to generate reports using PHP.

Notes:

• PHPJasper Can be used regardless of your PHP Framework
• For PHP versions less than 7.0 see: v1.16
• Here are several examples of how to use PHPJasper

Why PHPJasper?

Did you ever had to create a good looking Invoice with a lot of fields for your great web app?

I had to, and the solutions out there were not perfect. Generating HTML + CSS to make a PDF? That doesn't make any sense! :)

Then I found JasperReports the best open source solution for reporting.

What can I do with this?

Well, everything. JasperReports is a powerful tool for reporting and BI.

From their website:

The JasperReports Library is the world's most popular open source reporting engine. It is entirely written in Java and it is able to use data coming from any kind of data source and produce pixel-perfect documents that can be viewed, printed or exported in a variety of document formats including HTML, PDF, Excel, OpenOffice and Word.

It is recommended using Jaspersoft Studio to build your reports, connect it to your datasource (ex: MySQL, POSTGRES), loop thru the results and output it to PDF, XLS, DOC, RTF, ODF, etc.

Some examples of what you can do:

• Invoices
• Reports
• Listings

Requirements

• PHP 7.0 or above
• Java JDK 1.8

Optional

• Mysql JDBC Driver (If you want to use a database)
• PostgreSQL JDBC Driver (If you want to use a database)
• Microsoft JDBC Drivers (If you want to use a database)
• Jaspersoft Studio (to draw and compile your reports)

Java(JDK)

Check if you already have Java installed:

$ javac -version
javac version 1.8.0_101

If you get:

command not found: javac

Then install it with: (Ubuntu/Debian)

$ sudo apt-get install default-jdk

To install on: (centOS/Fedora)

# yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk.x86_64

To install on windows visit the link-> JDK and look for the most appropriate version for your system.

Now run the javac -version again and check if the output is ok.

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Installation

Install Composer if you don't have it.

composer require lavela/phpjasper

Or in your file'composer.json' add:

{
    "require": {
        "lavela/phpjasper": "^3.0"
    }
}

And the just run:

composer install

and thats it.

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Examples

The Hello World example.

Go to the examples directory in the root of the repository (vendor/lavela/phpjasper/examples). Open the hello_world.jrxml file with Jaspersoft Studio or with your favorite text editor and take a look at the source code.

Compiling

First we need to compile our JRXML file into a JASPER binary file. We just have to do this one time.

Note 1: You don't need to do this step if you are using Jaspersoft Studio. You can compile directly within the program.

require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

use PHPJasper\PHPJasper;

$input = __DIR__ . '/vendor/lavela/phpjasper/examples/hello_world.jrxml';   

$jasper = new PHPJasper;
$jasper->compile($input)->execute();

This commando will compile the hello_world.jrxml source file to a hello_world.jasper file.

Processing

Now lets process the report that we compile before:

require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

use PHPJasper\PHPJasper;

$input = __DIR__ . '/vendor/lavela/phpjasper/examples/hello_world.jasper';  
$output = __DIR__ . '/vendor/lavela/phpjasper/examples';    
$options = [ 
    'format' => ['pdf', 'rtf'] 
];

$jasper = new PHPJasper;

$jasper->process(
    $input,
    $output,
    $options
)->execute();

Now check the examples folder! :) Great right? You now have 2 files, hello_world.pdf and hello_world.rtf.

Check the methods compile and process in src/JasperPHP.php for more details

Listing Parameters

Querying the jasper file to examine parameters available in the given jasper report file:

require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

use PHPJasper\PHPJasper;

$input = __DIR__ . '/vendor/lavela/phpjasper/examples/hello_world_params.jrxml';

$jasper = new PHPJasper;
$output = $jasper->listParameters($input)->execute();

foreach($output as $parameter_description)
    print $parameter_description . '<pre>';

Using database to generate reports

We can also specify parameters for connecting to database:

require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

use PHPJasper\PHPJasper;    

$input = '/your_input_path/your_report.jasper';   
$output = '/your_output_path';
$options = [
    'format' => ['pdf'],
    'locale' => 'en',
    'params' => [],
    'db_connection' => [
        'driver' => 'postgres', //mysql, ....
        'username' => 'DB_USERNAME',
        'password' => 'DB_PASSWORD',
        'host' => 'DB_HOST',
        'database' => 'DB_DATABASE',
        'port' => '5432'
    ]
];

$jasper = new PHPJasper;

$jasper->process(
        $input,
        $output,
        $options
)->execute();

Note 2:

For a complete list of locales see Supported Locales

Using MSSQL DataBase

require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

use PHPJasper\PHPJasper;

$input = '/your_input_path/your_report.jasper or .jrxml';   
$output = '/your_output_path';
$jdbc_dir = __DIR__ . '/vendor/lavela/phpjasper/bin/jaspertarter/jdbc';
$options = [
    'format' => ['pdf'],
    'locale' => 'en',
    'params' => [],
    'db_connection' => [
        'driver' => 'generic',
        'host' => '127.0.0.1',
        'port' => '1433',
        'database' => 'DataBaseName',
        'username' => 'UserName',
        'password' => 'password',
        'jdbc_driver' => 'com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver',
        'jdbc_url' => 'jdbc:sqlserver://127.0.0.1:1433;databaseName=Teste',
        'jdbc_dir' => $jdbc_dir
    ]
];

$jasper = new PHPJasper;

$jasper->process(
        $input,
        $output,
        $options
    )->execute();

Reports from a XML

require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

use PHPJasper\PHPJasper;

$input = '/your_input_path/your_report.jasper';   
$output = '/your_output_path';
$data_file = __DIR__ . '/your_data_files_path/your_xml_file.xml';
$options = [
    'format' => ['pdf'],
    'params' => [],
    'locale' => 'en',
    'db_connection' => [
        'driver' => 'xml',
        'data_file' => $data_file,
        'xml_xpath' => '/your_xml_xpath'
    ]
];

$jasper = new PHPJasper;

$jasper->process(
    $input,
    $output,
    $options
)->execute();

Reports from a JSON

require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

use PHPJasper\PHPJasper;

$input = '/your_input_path/your_report.jasper';   
$output = '/your_output_path';

$data_file = __DIR__ . '/your_data_files_path/your_json_file.json';
$options = [
    'format' => ['pdf'],
    'params' => [],
    'locale' => 'en',
    'db_connection' => [
        'driver' => 'json',
        'data_file' => $data_file,
        'json_query' => 'your_json_query'
    ]
];

$jasper = new PHPJasper;

$jasper->process(
    $input,
    $output,
    $options
)->execute();

MySQL

We ship the MySQL connector (v5.1.39) in the /src/JasperStarter/jdbc/ directory.

PostgreSQL

We ship the PostgreSQL (v9.4-1203) in the /src/JasperStarter/jdbc/ directory.

MSSQL

Microsoft JDBC Drivers 6.0, 4.2, 4.1, and 4.0 for SQL Server .

Performance

Depends on the complexity, amount of data and the resources of your machine (let me know your use case).

I have a report that generates a Invoice with a DB connection, images and multiple pages and it takes about 3/4 seconds to process. I suggest that you use a worker to generate the reports in the background.

Thanks

Cenote GmbH for the JasperStarter tool.

JetBrains for the PhpStorm and all great tools.

Questions?

Open a new Issue or look for a closed issue

License

MIT

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