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What's New in PHP Report Maker 5
Oracle Support
In additional to MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft Access and Microsoft SQL Server, PHP Report Maker now supports Oracle also.
Export to PDF
A new extension for export to PDF is provided. (Note that this extension is experimental only, read Third Party Tools for more information.)
More Stunning Flash Charts and JavaScript (HTML 5) Charts (FusionCharts Extension)
PHP Report Maker 5 ships with FusionCharts Free. Registered users of PHP Report Maker 5 are entitled to enjoy the benefit of the new FusionCharts extension with licensed FusionCharts v3 which is a paid product with a wider variety of chart types, a host of advanced features and the ability to render the charts in JavaScript as well. Read FusionCharts Free vs. FusionCharts for detailed comparison.
Improved Advanced Chart Properties Setup
The Advanced Chart Properties setup page is now just next to the general chart setup page, much easier to set up the various advanced properties of the chart.
Compact Summary Only View
Optional compact summary only view for Detail and Summary reports. The summary values are displayed as columns instead of rows.
Create, Alter and Drop Views
To encourage use of database views instead of Custom Views (which was designed for old versions of MySQL that did not support views), PHP Report Maker now support creating, altering and dropping database views in user interface.
Menu with Grouping (Graphical Extension)
In addition to vertical and horizontal menu, the graphical extension now uses YUI menu and support grouping. Note: Graphical extension is available for registered users only
More Server Events and Client Scripts
- Page_Head - insert your own HTML inside the <head> section
- Database_Connected - execute your own code after connecting to the database
- User_CustomValidate - validate user login in your own way
- Menu_Rendering - customize the whole menu
- Cell_Rendered - customize table cell styles and format the content as you want
- Chart_Rendering (client side) - manipulate chart settings by JavaScript
- Chart_Rendered (client side) - customize chart by JavaScript
Improved Extended Filter
Extended Filters now support relative filters for datetime fields like popup filter. Supported relative filters are:
- Relative Days
- Relative Day Periods
- Relative Weeks
- Relative Months
- Relative Years
- Past/Future
Extended filters are now also supported by Gantt charts. Note: Gantt Chart extension is available for registered users only.
Many More
- PHP 5 (PHP 4 is no longer supported)
- Table synchronization (instead of synchronizing the whole database)
- Option to show loaded tables only (for use with "Load tables dynamically" option)
- Improved popup filter using YUI Dialog
- Preserve more CSS styles during export
- Hyperlinks for export as crListOptions object. Allows manipulating export links by server event.
- Improved user interface with Unicode support. Resizes better in 64bit Windows.
- jQuery extensions (includes jquery.js for user's own use only.)
- Detect password in simple '<hashedstring>:<salt>' format
- Many other minor improvements
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