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tattersoftware / codeigniter4-reports

Report management framework for CodeIgniter 4
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Where is the user guide please? #17

Open murugappanrm opened 2 years ago

murugappanrm commented 2 years ago

Hi,

How do you publish a CI tool/component and expect everyone to guess the User Guide?

MGatner commented 2 years ago

All docs are in the README.

This package is very old and in need of a lot of updates, one of those definitely being better documentation. It's due for updates pretty soon because of the outdated dependency on Tatter\Handlers. I can't guarantee it will work the same as before though, lots has changed in two years.

murugappanrm commented 2 years ago

Hi,

Thank you for the update.

eddgeo commented 2 years ago

The plugin looks interesting, but I would like to know better how it works and how I can implement it and put it to use in a site that already has CI4. do you have screenshots?

MGatner commented 2 years ago

I wouldn't recommend using this. It is one of the last few libraries that I haven't reworked and is way overdue for an overhaul.

murugappanrm commented 2 years ago

I agree with @MGatner . The library may not integrate effectively with the latest versions of the host platforms.

eddgeo commented 2 years ago

Oh, too bad, the idea was very good, I will be attentive in case you dare to follow up on the update, I would love to use it in a future update that they do.

MGatner commented 2 years ago

Could you say more what you are looking for? Maybe describe the problem you are trying to solve?

Largely the reason why this got so little maintenance was I found it very rigid. It worked well for the original project I built it for, then I somewhat forced it into another; after that I found I preferred to write reports fresh because of the struggles of fitting this "scaffold".

I do think a standardized way of approaching reports could be done, and maybe that is the future of this library, but I'd like more feedback before I try to solve a problem that doesn't really exist.

murugappanrm commented 2 years ago

hi @MGatner

To give you an idea what i am looking for i would suggest you checkout Reportico.org. We are using that right now. Its fantastic but afraid that it may die soon or already dead as the developer has gone MIA.

eddgeo commented 2 years ago

Could you say more what you are looking for? Maybe describe the problem you are trying to solve?

Largely the reason why this got so little maintenance was I found it very rigid. It worked well for the original project I built it for, then I somewhat forced it into another; after that I found I preferred to write reports fresh because of the struggles of fitting this "scaffold".

I do think a standardized way of approaching reports could be done, and maybe that is the future of this library, but I'd like more feedback before I try to solve a problem that doesn't really exist.

thanks for your reply

eddgeo commented 2 years ago

hi @MGatner

To give you an idea what i am looking for i would suggest you checkout Reportico.org. We are using that right now. Its fantastic but afraid that it may die soon or already dead as the developer has gone MIA.

you have it for Codeigniter 4?, since I can't find how to implement it