SQL Server Reporting Services SDK for PHP

SQL Server Reporting Services SDK for PHP: adding business intelligence and reporting features to PHP applications

Wouldn’t it be awesome if PHP developers building reporting applications could use the wider range of ready-to-use tools and services to create, deploy, and manage their reports. Today the SQL Server Reporting Services SDK for PHP turns that scenario into a simple reality enabling PHP developers to easily create reports and integrate them in their web applications.

Announcing the SQL Server Reporting Services SDK (Software Development Kit) for PHP

I’m excited to announce that the first version of the SQL Server Reporting Services SDK for PHP is available today on Codeplex, as an open source project: http://ssrsphp.codeplex.com.

This SDK enables PHP applications to simply utilize SQL Server Reporting Services, Microsoft’s Reporting and Business Intelligence solution. Best of all, these scenarios can be done using the free (as in “free beer”!) SQL Server 2008 Express with Advanced Services edition. This edition includes the SQL Server 2008 Express database engine as well as graphical administration tools and the Reporting Services server components for creating, managing, and deploying tabular, matrix, graphical, and free-form reports (SQL Server 2008 Express Advanced can be downloaded here).

SQL Server Reporting Services SDK for PHP in a nutshell

The SDK offers a simple Application Programming Interface (API) to interoperate with SQL Server Reporting Services. The API provides simple methods to perform the most common operations:

• list available reports within a PHP applications,
• provide custom parameters from a PHP web form,
• manage the rendering of the reports within a PHP application.

Tout l'article sur le Microsoft  Msdn :

http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/archive/2010/04/08/sql-server-reporting-services-sdk-for-php-adding-business-intelligence-and-reporting-features-to-php-applications.aspx