Home

Introduction

ReportGenerator is a module of the more complex otu.lea project. It is used for generating plain text and pdf reports about the performance of the users of the main otulea test-taking application. Report generation is currently done by the R/PHP scripts located in nattomi/ReportGenerator/scripts.

Report generation

Report generation is a process consisting of the following steps:

1. Load content of input data sources (such as .xml files) into memory
2. Extract information to be reported c) Organize information to be reported into a structured form (such as .xml or .tex files) d) If needed, run external program (such as pdflatex) to process the output of c)