Report generation in PHP (formats required pdf,xls,doc,csv)

Question

I need to generate reports in my PHP website (in zend framework)

Formats required:

PDF (with tables & images) // presently using Zend_Pdf
XLS (with tables & images)
DOC (with tables & images)
CSV (only tables)

Please recommend robust and fast solution for generating reports in PHP.

Platform: Zend Framework on LAMP

I know there are some tricky solutions for creating such reports, i wonder is there any open source report generation utility that can be used with LAMP environment

Answer 1

Excel: http://www.phpexcel.net

Answer 2

In my LAMP based application, I integrated the ability to generate report with JasperReports successfully.

For that, I use PHP/Java Bridge to communicate with Jasper java classes. You might want to try Zend Server since it provide this component at installation time.

Check this blog, it was a source of inspiration for my final solution : http://www.rjohnson.id.au/wordpress/2007/10/27/bullet-proof-jasper-reports-and-php/