Rendering a Report

To build a loaded report, you should call the render() function on the report object. For example, you want to build a report before exporting it.

index.php

<?php
    use Stimulsoft\Report\StiReport;
    use Stimulsoft\Export\Enums\StiExportFormat;

    $report = new StiReport();
    $report->loadFile('reports/SimpleList.mrt');
    $report->render();
    $report->exportDocument(StiExportFormat::Pdf);
    $report->printHtml();
?>

The full example code is available onGitHub.

To perform any actions with the report before building it using JavaScript, you can simply define the name of a JavaScript function for the onBeforeRender event. The event’s arguments will include the action type and the report itself. Example of registering JSON data before report generation:

index.php

<?php
    use Stimulsoft\Report\StiReport;

    $report = new StiReport();
    $report->onBeforeRender = 'beforeRender'; 
    $report->loadFile('reports/SimpleList.mrt');
    $report->render();
?>

...

<script>
    function beforeRender(args) {
        let dataSet = new Stimulsoft.System.Data.DataSet("SimpleDataSet");
        dataSet.readJsonFile("Demo.json");

        let report = args.report;
        report.regData(dataSet.dataSetName, "", dataSet);
    }
</script>

The full example code is available on GitHub.

To perform any actions after building the report using JavaScript, you can define the name of a JavaScript function for the onAfterRender event. The event’s arguments will include the action type and the report itself. Example of displaying a message after report generation:

index.php

<?php
    use Stimulsoft\Report\StiReport;

    $report = new StiReport();
    $report->onAfterRender = 'afterRender'; 
    $report->loadFile('reports/SimpleList.mrt');
    $report->render();
?>

...

<script>
    function afterRender(args) {
        alert("The report rendering is completed.");
    }
</script>

The full example code is available on GitHub.