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RE: [Rlib-users] debugging php rlib & other thoughts

[Andrew C. <And...@So...>]

Caught one other thing that may be helpful....

	dl ("libr.so");    

		is 
	
	dl ("libr-php.so");

on my test script.....

Andrew


-----Original Message-----
From: rli...@li...
[mailto:rli...@li...]On Behalf Of John Buckman
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 2:56 PM
To: rli...@li...
Subject: [Rlib-users] debugging php rlib & other thoughts


I have rlib working on my linux system, with the C code, but not with 
PHP.  

I tried the PHP example, and also mimicking my working C code in PHP, 
namely like this:

<?
error_reporting(E_ALL);
dl ("libr.so");
$r = rlib_init();
rlib_add_datasource_mysql($r, "local_mysql", "localhost", "root", 
"xxxxx", "magnatune");
rlib_add_query_as($r, "local_mysql", "select * from visa;", "example");
rlib_add_report($r, "report.xml", "example");
rlib_set_output_format($r, "html");
rlib_execute($r);
rlib_finalize($r);
header(rlib_get_content_type($r));
rlib_spool($r);
?>

RE: [Rlib-users] debugging php rlib & other thoughts

[Andrew C. <And...@So...>]

I have a slightly different php file and have gotten the example to function
correctly.

1)  I commented out the line
	rlib_finalize($rlib);

2) I have another line at the end
	rlib_free($rlib);

try and replace the last four lines with this code

// ~~~~~~~ BEGIN CODE SNIP ~~~~~~~~~~~

	// rlib_finalize($r);
	header(rlib_get_content_type($r));
	rlib_spool($r);
	rlib_free($r);
?>

// ~~~~~~~ END CODE SNIP ~~~~~~~~~~~


I am just diving into the formatting of information today.


Andrew


-----Original Message-----
From: rli...@li...
[mailto:rli...@li...]On Behalf Of John Buckman
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 2:56 PM
To: rli...@li...
Subject: [Rlib-users] debugging php rlib & other thoughts


I have rlib working on my linux system, with the C code, but not with
PHP.

I tried the PHP example, and also mimicking my working C code in PHP,
namely like this:

<?
error_reporting(E_ALL);
dl ("libr.so");
$r = rlib_init();
rlib_add_datasource_mysql($r, "local_mysql", "localhost", "root",
"xxxxx", "magnatune");
rlib_add_query_as($r, "local_mysql", "select * from visa;", "example");
rlib_add_report($r, "report.xml", "example");
rlib_set_output_format($r, "html");
rlib_execute($r);
rlib_finalize($r);
header(rlib_get_content_type($r));
rlib_spool($r);
?>

the trouble is that if I run up to rlib_execute the page displays
nothing, and apache's errorlog shows a few pid's exiting.   I'm not
sure how to debug this any further. I know the library's loading,
because if I pass invalid params to, say, rlib_add_report, I get a
helpful error.

--

you'll not that:
rlib_add_query_as($r, "local_mysql", "select * from visa;", "example");

takes 4 params, not 3 as documented.

--

it would be *very* helpful to have a reports.xml included in the
distribution. Copying/pasting from the PDF loses the tab indentation,
but more seriously, all single quotes are turned into "smart quotes"
which cause XML parser errors.

--

it would be very handy to be able to give a filename to rlib_spool(r)
and have the output written there. That would let me have a big C
program which generated all my reports in one program, without needing
to repeatedly run a C program and shell out.

---

Any interest in Tcl bindings?  It happens to be my language of choice
(though I do use PHP and Perl a lot too).  I can probably make them
fairly easily.

--

can you provide an XML example of report breaks ?  I can probably hack
at them for a few hours and make them work, but an example would be
great (just paste the section into an email response)

---

FYI, the C code is very clean, which is a nice suprise, and really
helped me understand how this worked.

-john




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[Rlib-users] debugging php rlib & other thoughts

[John B. <jo...@ma...>]

I have rlib working on my linux system, with the C code, but not with 
PHP.  

I tried the PHP example, and also mimicking my working C code in PHP, 
namely like this:

<?
error_reporting(E_ALL);
dl ("libr.so");
$r = rlib_init();
rlib_add_datasource_mysql($r, "local_mysql", "localhost", "root", 
"xxxxx", "magnatune");
rlib_add_query_as($r, "local_mysql", "select * from visa;", "example");
rlib_add_report($r, "report.xml", "example");
rlib_set_output_format($r, "html");
rlib_execute($r);
rlib_finalize($r);
header(rlib_get_content_type($r));
rlib_spool($r);
?>

the trouble is that if I run up to rlib_execute the page displays 
nothing, and apache's errorlog shows a few pid's exiting.   I'm not 
sure how to debug this any further. I know the library's loading, 
because if I pass invalid params to, say, rlib_add_report, I get a 
helpful error.

--

you'll not that:
rlib_add_query_as($r, "local_mysql", "select * from visa;", "example");

takes 4 params, not 3 as documented.

--

it would be *very* helpful to have a reports.xml included in the 
distribution. Copying/pasting from the PDF loses the tab indentation, 
but more seriously, all single quotes are turned into "smart quotes" 
which cause XML parser errors.

--

it would be very handy to be able to give a filename to rlib_spool(r) 
and have the output written there. That would let me have a big C 
program which generated all my reports in one program, without needing 
to repeatedly run a C program and shell out.

---

Any interest in Tcl bindings?  It happens to be my language of choice 
(though I do use PHP and Perl a lot too).  I can probably make them 
fairly easily.

--

can you provide an XML example of report breaks ?  I can probably hack 
at them for a few hours and make them work, but an example would be 
great (just paste the section into an email response)

---

FYI, the C code is very clean, which is a nice suprise, and really 
helped me understand how this worked.

-john

[Rlib-users] RLib configuration Prob

[Santhanam <v_s...@am...>]

Dear Friends,
    I am trying to install & use RLib in Redhat Linux 9.0, PHP
4.3.3 with Apache 2.0.47, ClibPDF.
    When i execute the example in betabook.pdf,  i get the
following error :
--------------------------------------------------------------
Warning: dl(): Unable to load dynamic library './libr-php.so' -
./libr-php.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory in /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/rlibexample.php on line 2
--------------------------------------------------------------

    The following is the output of "ldconfig -v |grep libr-" :
-------------------------------------------------------------
        libr-postgre-1.1.2.so -> libr-postgre-1.1.2.so
        libr-mysql-1.1.2.so -> libr-mysql-1.1.2.so
        libr-1.1.2.so -> libr-1.1.2.so
----------------------------------------------------------
        Please help me in this problem.
Thanks in Advance.
With Regards
Santhanam

[Rlib-users] rlib example - output help

[Andrew C. <And...@So...>]

Thanks for the ldconfig pointer... that did it!

Now, I can get reports to be sent to the browser, but not have it launch a
program to read the output (acrobat, ms excel).  TXT, HTML, CSV, and PDF all
display their data to the browser.  The first three are all readable in the
browser but that defeats the purpose of the various types.  How do I get the
example to output to a file so acrobat will pick it up and read it?  Same
with ms excel for the csv?

Thanks again!  I cheared when I say the first HTML report display.

Andrew

Re: [Rlib-users] Compiling with php support

[Robert K. <rk...@si...>]

PHP-devel has to be installed.

You know that you've got it if you have php_config in your path.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alejandro Roldan" <ar...@ai...>
To: <rli...@li...>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 1:45 PM
Subject: [Rlib-users] Compiling with php support


> Hi all
>
> I just tried compiling rlib on a LAMP system but I cannot compile rlib
with
> php support.
>
> This is the message of configure:
>
> *** WARNING: PHP NOT FOUND IN PATH.  RLIB WILL NOT BE COMPILED WITH
SUPPORT
> FOR IT
>
> Help please
>
> --
> Alex
>
>
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Re: [Rlib-users] libr-mysql.so error

[Everton L. B. <ev...@fa...>]

run 'ldconfig' manually at your local lib directory (/usr/local/lib on 
redhat9)
after type
'ldconfig -v | grep libr'

libr-mysql must be listed.


Andrew Cotter escreveu:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am trying to get rlib working and am running into an error.
> 
> Using rlib-1.1.2 I get a webpage that just does not produce any information.
> The error_log reads...
> 
> "
> DLOPEN SAYS [libr-mysql.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory]
> ** NUTS.. WE CRASHED
> [Mon Oct 27 14:48:26 2003] [notice] child pid 27168 exit signal Quit (3)
> "
> 
> 
> I am using <? dl ("libr-php.so");
> 
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> 
> Andrew
> 
> 
> 
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RE: [Rlib-users] Compiling with php support

[Andrew C. <And...@So...>]

What versions of software are you using?

I was trying on a RH 9.0 box and finally went back to a RH 7.3 box and got
it to install.  Not running yet, but it did install.

On the RH 9.0 box I think I was having problems with MySQL 4 and Apache 2.
I'm back to 3.2.49 and 1.3.23.  My PHP version is 4.1.2 (all from a fresh
install of RH 7.3) but soon will update to newer verisons.


-----Original Message-----
From: rli...@li...
[mailto:rli...@li...]On Behalf Of Alejandro
Roldan
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 1:46 PM
To: rli...@li...
Subject: [Rlib-users] Compiling with php support


Hi all

I just tried compiling rlib on a LAMP system but I cannot compile rlib with
php support.

This is the message of configure:

*** WARNING: PHP NOT FOUND IN PATH.  RLIB WILL NOT BE COMPILED WITH SUPPORT
FOR IT

Help please

--
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[Rlib-users] Compiling with php support

[Alejandro R. <ar...@ai...>]

Hi all

I just tried compiling rlib on a LAMP system but I cannot compile rlib with
php support.

This is the message of configure:

*** WARNING: PHP NOT FOUND IN PATH.  RLIB WILL NOT BE COMPILED WITH SUPPORT
FOR IT

Help please

--
Alex

[Rlib-users] libr-mysql.so error

[Andrew C. <And...@So...>]

Hello all,

I am trying to get rlib working and am running into an error.

Using rlib-1.1.2 I get a webpage that just does not produce any information.
The error_log reads...

"
DLOPEN SAYS [libr-mysql.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory]
** NUTS.. WE CRASHED
[Mon Oct 27 14:48:26 2003] [notice] child pid 27168 exit signal Quit (3)
"


I am using <? dl ("libr-php.so");


Any thoughts?


Andrew

Re: [Rlib-users] RLIB - PHP Installation Problem

[Everton L. B. <ev...@fa...>]

Rlib version >= 1.1.1 use libr-php.so
See betabook.pdf on Rlib site documentation for examples


Santhanam escreveu:
> Dear Friends,
>      I came across RLIB when i was looking for some console
> printable reports.Since RLIB can generate TXT files, i am very
> much eager to try it.
>     I have RH 7.3 server with PHP 4.2.2 with both PDFLib and
> ClibPDF installed.
>     I have used the following commands for installing RLIB :
> ---------------------------------------
>  ./configure
>  make
>  make install
> ---------------------------------------
>     But when i tried to execute the sample given in the
> documentation, i am getting the following error :
> -------------------------------------------------
> 
> Warning: Unable to load dynamic library './libr.so'
> 
> ---------------------------------------------
> 
> Please kindly help me.
> Thanks in Advance.
>  With Regards
> Santhanam
> 
> 
> 
> 
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[Rlib-users] RLIB - PHP Installation Problem

[Santhanam <v_s...@am...>]

Dear Friends,
     I came across RLIB when i was looking for some console
printable reports.Since RLIB can generate TXT files, i am very
much eager to try it.
    I have RH 7.3 server with PHP 4.2.2 with both PDFLib and
ClibPDF installed.
    I have used the following commands for installing RLIB :
---------------------------------------
 ./configure
 make
 make install
---------------------------------------
    But when i tried to execute the sample given in the
documentation, i am getting the following error :
-------------------------------------------------

Warning: Unable to load dynamic library './libr.so'

---------------------------------------------

Please kindly help me.
Thanks in Advance.
 With Regards
Santhanam

Re: [Rlib-users] rlib 1.1.1 - document contain no data

[Bob D. <bd...@si...>]

Hey,

the xml file should be in the same dir as the .php
also.. acroread doesn't always copy text right out of pdf documents
I'm guessing this is the problem.. it tuens single quotes into spaces :(

Also.. you can check your apache error log.. RLIB will log stuff there
by default.. and RLIB uses libxml.. which logs XML errors there also
(via stderr)

Attached is a report.xml file that should work



On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 09:00, Everton Luis Berz wrote:
> hi,
> i have been installed Rlib 1.1.1.
> testing example of betabook.pdf, browser show me
> "Document contain no data" error.
> what is wrong?
> 
> * phpinfo():
> Additional Modules
> sysvshm
> sysvsem
> rlib
> 
> * mysql:
> [everton@nsa3 ~]$ mysql -u everton -h localhost test
> ...
> mysql> select * from example;
> +----+--------------+------+-------+
> | rn | name         | type | price |
> +----+--------------+------+-------+
> |  1 | Hammer       |    1 |    10 |
> |  2 | Screw Driver |    1 |     7 |
> |  3 | Bolts        |    1 |     2 |
> |  4 | Hot Dog      |    2 |   1.5 |
> |  5 | Soda         |    2 |     1 |
> |  6 | Chips        |    2 |     1 |
> |  7 | Jaguar       |    3 | 50000 |
> |  8 | Lexus        |    3 | 60000 |
> |  9 | Pinto        |    3 |  2000 |
> +----+--------------+------+-------+
> 9 rows in set (0.00 sec)
> 
> * php code
> [everton@nsa3 /var/www/html/sa/rlib]$ cat rlibmy.php
> <? //dl ("libr-php.so");
>    $format = "pdf";
>    $sql_host = "localhost";
>    $sql_users = "everton";
>    $sql_password = "";
>    $sql_database = "test";
>    $rlib = rlib_init();
>        rlib_add_datasource_mysql($rlib, "mysql", $sql_host, $sql_users, 
> $sql_password, $sql_database);
>        rlib_add_query_as($rlib, "mysql", "select * from example", 
> "example");
>        rlib_add_report($rlib, "report.xml");
>        rlib_set_output_format($rlib, $format);
>        rlib_execute($rlib);
>        header( rlib_get_content_type($rlib));
>        rlib_spool($rlib);
>        rlib_free($rlib);
> ?>
> 
> 
> * xml code (is betabook.pdf example)
> 
> 
> Others formats (txt, csv) shows same error.

[Rlib-users] RLIB 1.1.2 RELEASED

[Bob D. <bd...@si...>]

Hey guys,

RLIB 1.1.2 has been released.  This version fixes bugs found in 1.1.1 

- Fix RLIB so Postgre actually works
- Make PDF output 3x faster by caching fields on a line before writing
them

Keep the bug reports coming in :)

On another note.. I'll be away till next friday, so I won't be able to
answer questions until then.  If people email the list someone else will
have to help them ;)

- Bob

[Rlib-users] rlib 1.1.1 - document contain no data

[Everton L. B. <ev...@fa...>]

hi,
i have been installed Rlib 1.1.1.
testing example of betabook.pdf, browser show me
"Document contain no data" error.
what is wrong?

* phpinfo():
Additional Modules
sysvshm
sysvsem
rlib

* mysql:
[everton@nsa3 ~]$ mysql -u everton -h localhost test
...
mysql> select * from example;
+----+--------------+------+-------+
| rn | name         | type | price |
+----+--------------+------+-------+
|  1 | Hammer       |    1 |    10 |
|  2 | Screw Driver |    1 |     7 |
|  3 | Bolts        |    1 |     2 |
|  4 | Hot Dog      |    2 |   1.5 |
|  5 | Soda         |    2 |     1 |
|  6 | Chips        |    2 |     1 |
|  7 | Jaguar       |    3 | 50000 |
|  8 | Lexus        |    3 | 60000 |
|  9 | Pinto        |    3 |  2000 |
+----+--------------+------+-------+
9 rows in set (0.00 sec)

* php code
[everton@nsa3 /var/www/html/sa/rlib]$ cat rlibmy.php
<? //dl ("libr-php.so");
   $format = "pdf";
   $sql_host = "localhost";
   $sql_users = "everton";
   $sql_password = "";
   $sql_database = "test";
   $rlib = rlib_init();
       rlib_add_datasource_mysql($rlib, "mysql", $sql_host, $sql_users, 
$sql_password, $sql_database);
       rlib_add_query_as($rlib, "mysql", "select * from example", 
"example");
       rlib_add_report($rlib, "report.xml");
       rlib_set_output_format($rlib, $format);
       rlib_execute($rlib);
       header( rlib_get_content_type($rlib));
       rlib_spool($rlib);
       rlib_free($rlib);
?>


* xml code (is betabook.pdf example)


Others formats (txt, csv) shows same error.

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[Rlib-users] ANNOUNCING RLIB 1.1.1

[Bob D. <bd...@si...>]

Announcing RLIB 1.1.1 - “We're gonna party like its your birthday”


RLIB 1.1.1 is the result of weeks of intensive work, to make RLIB more
usable for more people. First off, support for postgresql has been
added. All database back ends (mysql, postgre) are separate libraries
now. PHP support is also a separate library now. This means you can use
RLIB from c/c++ as well now. But perhaps the most exciting feature in
RLIB 1.1.1 is the ability to have multiple datasources. Forinstnace, if
you have a two mysql databases, and one postgre on different servers..
you can use rlib to make reports from all the datasources.


RLIB 1.1.1 is a beta release, it should be as stable as RLIB 1.0.2, but
no promises. don't use it on production servers.


There are a few more exciting changes to look forward to in RLIB 1.2.0:

              * Precompiled XML files for faster reports
                
              * Informix Backend
                
              * PYTHON bindings
                
              * PERL bindings
                
                
        

Note: RLIB's XML syntax did not change at all, but the RLIB api changed
slightly in order to allow for the new ability to have
multiple/different datasources.


Also: We need some kind people to help us out by making examples and
documenting...

.. Sign up now :)


- Bob

Re: [Rlib-users] RLib for Informix

[Bob D. <bd...@si...>]

Hi Vanco,

Good news and bad news.. RLIB cvs now supports a pluggable input's..
where I have a kinda of a class where you implement (next, previous,
first, last, query.. and a few others... its really simple..).. and you
can now use RLIB on flat files and stuff, as well as mysql

More good news is I'm gonna do postgres today or tomorrow...

Bad news I have little intrest in Informix.. and I have not heard from
many people who want it... nor do I have access to Informix

However.. If you know C I'd be happy to stub out an inforix class.. and
explain some internals for you so that you could implement it

Most DB's have the open, close, query, first, next functions.. so it
should be easy....

Let me know if Your up for it

btw.. anon CVS on sourceforge has been days behind now (over a week
now).. so If you want to develop w/ current rlib I'll have to roll you a
tarball.. which I would gladly do

- Bob



On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 10:36, Vanco Ordanoski wrote:
> Hello,
> I just joined this mailing list. RLIB looks like a great product, just
> what I need. But ... I use Informix on Linux.
> Is it possible to somehow use RLIB with Informix?
>  
> Thanks,
> Vanco Ordanoski

[Rlib-users] RLib for Informix

[Vanco O. <vo...@in...>]

Hello,
I just joined this mailing list. RLIB looks like a great product, just =
what I need. But ... I use Informix on Linux.
Is it possible to somehow use RLIB with Informix?

Thanks,
Vanco Ordanoski

[Rlib-users] Re: Rlib

[Bob D. <bd...@si...>]

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 17:21, Will Kessler wrote:
> Aha-- 3yr old, that'll do it. I'm praying we'll just survive his "witching hours" (6pm-10pm) and make it to month 4 in one piece!
> 
> I did build RLIB from source. I hate RPM's... although one day I should just bear down and read the whole $@#@ man page to learn how to roll back from them. I always prefer being able to say prefix=<my own dir in /usr/local> so that I know where everything goes, rather than somebody else spraypainting files all over my carefully constructed *nix's...  pkgadd on solaris gave me a much better warm fuzzy feeling because it always started with "preserving everything before installing..."

Ximian's Red Carpet will do all the for you I think......

> 
> So, you're suggesting i check out the CVS version then? I'll have to review... been a while since CVS and I'm a bit rusty. I have used subversion a lot recently so maybe it will come back to me.

Follow the Anon CVS Directions
http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=88448


> I might help you with the DHTML of your reports, if I can get a little time and you're interested... spent many hours coding DHTML on my last few projects.

I'm interested... its the way RLIB should be doing it IMHO... RLIB's PDF
generation has the ability to indent horizontal lines.. and give a
length to them... the best I can do w/ html is a <tr><td
height=something bgcolor=something></td></tr>

Two things would be helpful.... one.. take a simple RLIB report and redo
it manually using dhtml.. and give me some hints about how to generate
it..

If your c is good and you have more time you may want to check out
html.c in rlib/libsrc to see how I'm currenrently doing it... If you go
that route you will probably need to poke around reportgen.c at least..
to see what functions are called when.. if its not obvious from the name

There is a lot of fun stuff in the engine because RLIB has to lay things
out 4 different ways.. but its a faily clean OO design doine in c a la
structs w/ private data and pointers to functions

Also you might want to join the LIST(s) ;)

- Bob

[Rlib-users] Re: Rlib

[Bob D. <bd...@si...>]

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 13:24, Will Kessler wrote:
> Hi Bob! 
> 
> Man you work late ! Or you're just in another part of the world. Or... you have an infant in the house like me :-)

2&3 ;) (Pennsylvania and a 3 year old)


> Re: autoconf, i'm no guru either! But things work as long as that env. var is set, so if that were in the readme, i think it'd be good enough for most folks. I'm using RH8, php 4.3.0 (although after trying your software out, I upgraded to 4.3.3 last night due to some security concerns). After I did that, a symlink from lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429 to /usr/local/rlib/libr.so fixed the issue! (So i guess 4.3.0 was different enough that things wouldn't work.. again, possible addition to the README?)

Are you installing RH RPMS or building it your self?.. I still think
something else is going on here......

> 
> Lastly, after sending you that note last night i discovered that variation on rlib_set_output_format($rlib, $format);  and tried it with "html". This does output html but it's incomplete, eg table parts are missing, body's not closed, etc, so it won't render right. Here's what you get:
> 
> <html><head><style type="text/css">pre { margin:0; padding:0; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; font-size: 0pt;}
> DIV { position: absolute; left: 0; }
> TABLE { border: 0; cellspacing: 0; cellpadding: 0; width: 100%; }
> </style></head>
> <body><table><tr><td><pre>
> <font  size="4" >        </font><font  size="4" >Stock Items</font>
> 
> 
> 
> <font  size="3" >This is what's in stock today</font>
> Name                           Type       Price
> Hammer                         1          10.00
> Screw Driver                   1           7.00
> Bolts                          1           2.00
> Hot Dog                        2           1.50
> Soda                           2           1.00
> Chips                          2           1.00
> Jaguar                         3      50,000.00
> Lexus                          3      60,000.00
> Pinto                          3       2,000.00
> <font  size="3" >End of Report</font>
> Page:   1
> 

Actually... the problem is
pre { margin:0; padding:0; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; font-size:
0pt;}

It was a bug in RLIB.. the 0pt font-size will cause you not to be able
to see text ;)... CVS head has a fix for this.. would you mind trying it
out.. looks like I broke HTML when I added in support for multile
reports.... my bad (SF.net anoncvs may be 1 day behind btw...)

I also closed the pre,tr,td,and body for grins

If this is all good I'll roll another release early next week

it would be really nice if RLIB used dhtml to lay out the report...  I
need to do that someday

- bob

[Rlib-users] Re: Rlib

[Bob D. <bd...@si...>]

Hey Will.. great to hear it worked for someone ;)


> I have a couple of suggestions for your next release, in terms of documenting the installation process...

Suggestions are always welcome.. patches are also appreciated :)

> 
> 1) When building clibpdf, one should make sure to do 'make lib' before 'make install'.  Then manually symlinking the cpdflib header and .a file is a good idea.

I'll make a note to put that on our site or in the README

> 2) When running configure, it was necessary to set the env. var MYSQL_CONFIG to the location of my mysql_config executable, /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config. 
> 
> Otherwise, configure gives:
> 
> checking for mysql_config... no                                                 
> ./configure: line 1: no: command not found                                      
> ./configure: line 1: no: command not found                                      
> 
> which threw me off for a while!
> 


Could I get some more information on this.. what distro are you using? 
Also.. I'm not a wizzard at autoconf... this was my 1st official go of
it... maybe you could do better then me?? possibly take a look at
configure.in in CVS head?

> 		
> 3) You may wish to put a copy of the examples in text files in the release directory. When I copied them from the pdf manual i introduced some errors.

Yes.. I know I need to do that... acroread is messed up

> 
> 4) I couldn't get the "dl" directive to work by tweaking php.ini, but if I symlinked to rlib.so from the directory where the actual displayed php file is stored, everything was golden.  Ideally one would want to make rlib.so available globally, but I couldn't figure out how to do this.  ANy tips?
> 

What version of php?  Where did rlib want to install?  and 
what is extension_dir set to in your php.ini ... thats were RLIB wants
to install

> 5) Dynamic PDF output is neat, but html output would be sweeter and faster in many cases. Any plans to create plain  old html report outputs?

HEHEHE!! Is this not in the documentation???

Normally you do:
rlib_set_output_format($rlib, $format); 

and format can be: "PDF", "HTML", "CSV", or "TXT"

so it should already work... give it a try

- Bob

> 
> Thanks again for offering this under GPL.
> 
> 
> Will Kessler
> Email me at: ke...@wi...
> See my web site at : http://www.willkessler.com
> 
> 
> 
> 

[Rlib-users] RLIB 1.0.2 RELEASED

[Bob D. <bd...@si...>]

Hey All,

I just released 1.0.2

Highlights include:

* Support for multiple reports in one report
* Autoconf support

Also: A lot of work was put into having multiple input sources for rlib
(mysql, postgree, ect).. however, rlib still only has the mysql input
provider.  The next release should also include postgree, but there is
still a lot of work to do, and a API change on the PHP side 

- bob

[Rlib-users] RLIB 1.0.2 RELEASED

[Bob D. <bd...@si...>]

Hey All,

I just released 1.0.2

Highlights include:

* Support for multiple reports in one report
* Autoconf support

Also: A lot of work was put into having multiple input sources for rlib
(mysql, postgree, ect).. however, rlib still only has the mysql input
provider.  The next release should also include postgree, but there is
still a lot of work to do, and a API change on the PHP side 

- bob

Re: [Rlib-users] postgresql support

[Bob D. <bd...@si...>]

Hi,

I'm currently working on multiple backends for RLIB (not in CVS yet).. 
postgree and flat file will be the next 2 backends supported... It
should land in CVS next week along with auto* support

Stay tuned.. I'll anounce it to the list when I'm ready for testers

- Bob

On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 13:53, Everton Luis Berz wrote:
> Hi,
> Rlib is very good, but i need postgresql support..
> have you prevision for this feature?
> thanx.

[Rlib-users] postgresql support

[Everton L. B. <ev...@fa...>]

Hi,
Rlib is very good, but i need postgresql support..
have you prevision for this feature?
thanx.

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