Although KoolReport now can work with Laravel or other PHP MVC Frameworks without problem but we are planning to make special packages for each frameworks so that we can implement KoolReport seamlessly in those frameworks. For example KoolReport can use the default database settings in Laravel, utilize the eloquent of it.

Please let us know:

1. Do you like this idea?
2. If possible, please give us your comment of how do you want to use KoolReport inside those frameworks.

Thanks,

KoolPHP Inc

@David Willink: Thank you! We will do that :)

My tip: Just get started and no worry, it will not run at first try :D but it will, for sure. And you are backed by us, just post your question when you need help.

Just to update, we have release Laravel package and CodeIgniter package.

To make a report work inside Laravel, we just need to add a simple line like this into class of report

use \koolreport\laravel\Friendship;

To use KoolReport inside CodeIgniter, we do the same

use \koolreport\codeigniter\Friendship;

As a result of above line of code, your report now can access all databases from Laravel or Codeigniter and it will configure itself to publish required resources to public assets folder of two frameworks.

Those packages are the first pioneers in the campaign of making KoolReport work seamlessly in all PHP Frameworks or specific environments.

We always keep in mind KoolReport has to be easy, fast, flexible and extensible.

Thank you!

May be you have not download the Laravel package, please find it in the packages page, you just need to download, unzip and put it into packages folder.

Do you test Laravel package with latest KoolReport 2.78.0

Thank you very much for your good words. About the eloquent, we get close to it, may be in next version of Laravel package.

Actually, you may utilize the ArrayDataSource like this:

In settings() function of report

protected function settings()
{
    return array(
        "dataSources"=>array(
            array(
                "eloquent"=>array(
                    "class"=>'\koolreport\datasources\ArrayDataSource'
                )
            )
        )
    );
}

and in the setup() function, you do:

protected function setup()
{
    $this->src("eloquent")->load(
        Flight::all()->toArray()
    )
    ->pipe(...)
}

Basically the we get results from Flight and turn them into associate array and utilize the ArrayDataSource to pipe data.