Free reports software for linux

PHPReports project started when I needed something to create some reports on the browser as replacement of those ones my company used to generate using tools like FoxPro, Visual Basic and all that m$ stuff you dudes know about.
I was starting PHP programming (still am) and was really excited about put all the info we need on the browser, but, no pain no gain, theres that kind of reports that needs to have grouping info, grouping break and all sort of grouping stuff including some operations like sum, max, min, average on group values. And printing !!! Breaking the report into pages to fit on the printer as the regular tools do.
It was perfectly possible using PHP, but a report is different from the other, and the customization of it using pure hand-made-code will take a time that I didnt, dont and wont have. So I decided to make it on a flexible way using XML files to make the report layout, creating PHP code to run it on the browser.
Now its easy to make reports - just define the report layout and put all the functions you want - simple, clean and easy. And the most important! Using this approach you can (I did) show your company that you dont need any other kind of software to make all the stuff you need (by, m$ stuff).
Enhancements:
- Added 3 JavaScript events: ONCLICK, ONMOUSEOVER and ONMOUSEOUT;
- Added the concept of input plugins. The first one convert the SQL query on a way it allows to show crosstab reports.

BZbyte Reports provides a Web-based reporting solution.
BZbyte Reports is a reliable and easy-to-use reporting application that supports features expected from a reporting tool such as Crystal Reports, MS Access, Jasper, and iReports.
It is completely Web-based and uses dynamic HTML to provide a rich, interactive experience with a standard browser. The server software can be installed on a personal computer or shared on a network server.
Author:
Enhancements:
- This is a milestone release for Technical users.
- It demonstrates some of the new structure and functions but is not complete and is not yet usable for creating reports from end to end.
- This release is an overhaul of the 1.0 version.
- The next alpha release, at the end of October 2005, will allow creating reports from end to end along with many other features.
- Note: This release includes the tomcat app server.

Tiny Report is a free software that helps you to Design, Manage, and Deliver Reports for Extreme Business Insight.
It simply automates to production of dynamic PDFs. It allows you to design your templates in OpenOffice.
Main features:
The process
- Design your .SXW fie in OpenOffice,
- Use tiny_sxw2rml.py to convert the file in a .RML template,
- Use tiny_report.py to produce PDF file using any database.
Report Designer
- The report designer used is OpenOffice. All styles, tags and features of OpenOffice documents (.SXW) are implemented instead frames.
- No specific language to learn,
- Support style, colors, table, section, items, images, ...
- OpenOffice is not needed to render the PDF
Data Acquisition
- Support python expressions for effective computation,
- Browse through table with the object relationnal mapping,
- You do not have to code the database structure (introspection on the DB),
- You can create your own object and functions
- Lots of databases supported: MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, Firebird, SybaseConnection, MAX DB
- Support all links between tables (one2many, many2one, ...),
- Lots of special features using simple Python: group, sort.
Report Renderer
- Fast, simple and easy,
- Standalone to be included in other applications.

SvnReporter generates various reports in response to commits happening in a Subversion repository.

SvnReporter is intended to be called from the post-commit hook. Two types of reports are supported: single-event and event list reports.

The former generate reports relative to the current commit only, and are typically used to generate post-commit mails.

The latter generate reports relative to a list of commits, e.g. an RSS feed or a Web page showing the latest commits.

Reports can be restricted to certain criteria, specified by a list of regular expressions. The format of the reports can be defined with a template.

Data::Report provides a framework for flexible reporting.

Data::Report is a flexible, plugin-driven reporting framework. It makes it easy to define reports that can be produced in text, HTML and CSV. Textual ornaments like extra empty lines, dashed lines, and cell lines can be added in a way similar to HTML style sheets.

The Data::Report framework consists of three parts:
The plugins

Plugins implement a specific type of report. Standard plugins provided are Data::Report::Plugin::Text for textual reports, Data::Report::Plugin::Html for HTML reports, and Data::Report::Plugin::Csv for CSV (comma-separated) files.
Users can, and are encouraged, to develop their own plugins to handle different styles and types of reports.

The base class
The base class Data::Report::Base implements the functionality common to all reporters, plus a number of utility functions the plugins can use.

The factory
The actual Data::Report module is a factory that creates a reporter for a given report type by selecting the appropriate plugin and returning an instance thereof.

Snort Report is an add-on module for the Snort Intrusion Detection System. Snort Report add-on provides realtime reporting from the MySQL database generated by Snort.

It has been tested on Redhat 6.2, 7.0, 7.1, and OpenBSD 2.9.

Kexi Report Part is a reporting component for Kexi 1.6 based on OpenRPT 1.2.
Main features:
- A report viewer for Kexi
- An external report designer (KexiReportWriter) based on the OpenRPT writer program
Known Working Features
- Page Header
- Page Footer
- Report Header
- Report Footer
- Detail section
- Labels
- Lines
- Fields
- Page Browser
How To Create Report
1. Install the component following the instructions in INSTALL
2. Run KexiReportWriter to start designing a report
3. Select Database->Connect to DB
4. Browse to an existing Kexi Database and open it
5. Create a new report (File->New)
6. Assign a data source to the report (Document->Properties)
7. Create the report using labels/fields/lines
8. Assign columns to the field objects (Double click for properties)
9. Save the report. (Database->Save to DB)
10. Load the database in Kexi and double click the report to view it
Enhancements:
- Removed requirement to have kexi source available to install the plugin.Done this by including the needed kexi headers in the package. Only downside is that kexi 1.1.3 (from koffice 1.6.3) is required.

RepTool is a reporting/printing tool.

RepTool is composed by two components: libreptool, which manages source files that are the reports definition, and it produces the report/print; greptool, which visually creates reports definition files.