How to use KoolReport in CakePHP?

CakePHP is one of earliest and greatest MVC framework for PHP. CakePHP has reached version 4.x with great improvement toward modern standard. CakePHP provide clean code, fast speed and large support community.

KoolReport is reporting framework and can be integrated into CakePHP or any other MVC framework.KoolReport help you to create data report faster and easier.

In this repository, we would like to demonstrate how KoolReport can be used inside CakePHP.

Guide

Installation

Run composer command to install koolreport\core

composer require koolreport\core

Step to make reports

1. Inside src folder, create Reports folder to hold your reports
2. Create MyReport.php and MyReport.view.php inside Reports folder. Please see the contents of two files in our repository.
3. Inside webroot folder, create folder koolreport_assets to hold resources created by KoolReport

Create controller and view

In PagesController, create report() action:

public function report()
{
    $report = new \App\Reports\MyReport;
    $report->run();
    $this->set("report",$report);
    return $this->render();
}

Configure the routes inside config/routes.php

$builder->connect('/report', ['controller' => 'Pages', 'action' => 'report']);

All done!

View result

Now you can access:

http://locahost/cakephp-example/report

you will see

Summary

KoolReport is a great php reporting framework. You can use KoolReport alone with pure php or inside any modern MVC frameworks like CakePHP, Laravel, Symfony. If you have any questions regarding KoolReport, free free to contact us at our forum or email to support@koolreport.com.

Happy Reporting!