I have written a couple of post on using Actuate’s JSAPI to include BIRT content within your system. This API is AJAX based and allows content to be embedded within most web applications.
These post can read here:
Calling BIRT Reports from ASP.NET
and
Actuate's JSAPI
In addition take a look at calling the BIRT Engine from PHP, which I blogged about a while back.
Calling the JSAPI from PHP is not much different than any other front end. For example, including the interactive viewer can be done using the following code.
<?php
$JSAPI_Location='http://localhost:8080/ActuateJavaComponent/jsapi';
$ReportFile='/Public/BIRT and BIRT Report Studio Examples/Customer Dashboard.rptdesign';
?>
<HTML>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<div id="jsapi_example_container">
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo $JSAPI_Location ?>"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">
<!-- Load the viewer component of the Actuate object -->
actuate.load("viewer");
actuate.initialize("<?php echo substr($JSAPI_Location, 0, -5) ?>",
null,
null,
null,
initViewer);
var viewer;
function initViewer()
{
viewer = new actuate.Viewer("acviewer");
<!-- register an event handler to catch exceptions -->
viewer.registerEventHandler(actuate.viewer.EventConstants.ON_EXCEPTION, errorHandler);
run();
}
function run()
{
viewer.setReportName("<?php echo $ReportFile ?>");
viewer.submit();
}
function errorHandler(viewInstance, exception)
{
alert(exception.getMessage());
}
</script>
<div id="acviewer"></div>
</div>
</body>
</HTML>
In this example I am setting the JSAPI location and report file to run using a couple of PHP variables. The JSAPI is initialized and the callback function initViewer is called which creates the viewer within the acviewer div element. The initViewer function then calls the run method which sets the report to run and executes it. The report is then displayed within the acviewer div element. 
If the report has parameters you can use the parameter component of the JSAPI or set them using PHP variables.
Change the code above to add the parameter values.
<?PHP
$JSAPI_Location='http://localhost:8080/ActuateJavaComponent/jsapi';
$ReportFile='/Public/BIRT and BIRT Report Studio Examples/Sales By Territory.rptdesign';
$reportTerritory='NA';
$reportYear=2004;
?>
Next, within the run method set the parameters using code similar to the following.
function run()
{
viewer.setParameters(
{
"Territory": "<?php echo $reportTerritory ?>",
"currentYear": <?php echo $reportYear ?>
}
);
viewer.setReportName("<?php echo $ReportFile ?>");
viewer.submit();
}
To use the parameter component use code similar to the following.
<html>
<body>
<?php
$JSAPI_Location='http://localhost:8080/ActuateJavaComponent/jsapi';
$ReportFile='/Public/BIRT and BIRT Report Studio Examples/DateTest.rptdesign';
?>
<div id="jsapi_example_container">
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo $JSAPI_Location ?>"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">
var paramObj;
var viewer;
actuate.load("viewer");
actuate.initialize("<?php echo substr($JSAPI_Location, 0, -5) ?>",
null,
null,
null,
init);
function init()
{
<!-- parameter -->
paramObj = new actuate.Parameter("parampane");
<!-- register an event handler to catch exceptions -->
paramObj.registerEventHandler(actuate.parameter.EventConstants.ON_EXCEPTION, parameterErrorHandler);
<!-- viewer -->
viewer = new actuate.Viewer("viewerpane");
var viewerwidth = 800;
var viewerheight = 600;
<!-- register an event handler to catch exceptions -->
viewer.registerEventHandler(actuate.viewer.EventConstants.ON_EXCEPTION, errorHandler);
viewer.setWidth(viewerwidth);
viewer.setHeight(viewerheight);
runParam();
}
function runParam()
{
paramObj.setReportName("<?php echo $ReportFile ?>");
paramObj.submit(function () {document.getElementById("run").style.visibility = 'visible';});
}
function run()
{
paramObj.downloadParameterValues(runNext);
}
function runNext( pvs )
{
viewer.setParameterValues(pvs);
viewer.setReportName("<?php echo $ReportFile ?>");
viewer.submit();
}
function errorHandler(viewInstance, exception)
{
alert(exception.getMessage());
}
function parameterErrorHandler(exception)
{
alert(exception.getMessage());
}
</script>
<table border=1>
<tr>
<td><div id="parampane"></div></td>
<td><input type="button" class="btn" id="run" value="Run Report" onclick="run()" style="visibility: hidden"></td>
</tr>
</table>
<div id="viewerpane"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
The run function downloads the parameters that were set using the parameter component. Next the setParameterValues method is used to set the parameter values for the run of the report. Notice this example has a date parameter, and the JSAPI provides a date picker for this type of parameter.
If you are already using some PHP class to implement a date picker, such as the one available at the Zebra PHP Components Framework blog, you can modify your code to retrieve the date from the id of the element the date is stored in. The above example would have the following modifications:
<?php
// include the class
require "class.datepicker.php";
// instantiate the object
$dp=new datepicker();
$dp->dateFormat="m/d/Y";
$JSAPI_Location='http://localhost:8080/ActuateJavaComponent/jsapi';
$ReportFile='/Public/BIRT and BIRT Report Studio Examples/DateTest.rptdesign';
?>
function runNext( pvs )
{
//viewer.setParameterValues(pvs);
viewer.setParameters({"currentYear":2003, "currentMonth":12, "DateParameter":document.getElementById("date").value});
viewer.setReportName("");
viewer.submit();
}
<table border=1>
<tr>
<td><input type="text" id="date"></td>
<td><input type="button" value="Select Date" onclick="<?=$dp->show("date")?>"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div id="parampane"></div></td>
<td><input type="button" class="btn" id="run" value="Run Report" onclick="run()" style="visibility: hidden"></td>
</tr>
</table>
<div id="viewerpane"></div>
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Calling BIRT reports from PHP using Actuate’s JSAPI
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3 comments:
BRAVO!!! this is the first real example I see of BIRT+PHP, if you have more examples about the same please send me any one to my email: diblanco034@gmail.com. I´m a Birt+PHP beginner.
Greetings
Thanks for the comment. You may want to have a look on BIRT-Exchange for more details on the JSAPI:
http://www.birt-exchange.org/org/wiki/index.php?title=GSG:Getting_Started_with_BIRT_JavaScript_API
Thanks for sharing !!
nice post
Plz Have a look php sms
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