Does JASPERPHP still works with Laravel 8?

Question

I'm currently using cossou/JasperPHP, and I'm having a problem with generating the pdf file. it just gives me this error all the time Your report has an error and couldn't be processed! Try to output the command using the function output(); and run it manually in the console. I tried changing the ->execute() to ->output() and it gives me the error that it couldn't find a pdf file.

Any other package suggestions for printing and making reports just like Crystal Report or Jaspersoft?

public function dbConfig(){
        //JasperPHP::compile(base_path('/vendor/cossou/jasperphp/examples/hello_world.jrxml'))->execute();
        $jdbc_dir = 'D:\xampp\htdocs\TestTO\vendor\cossou\jasperphp\src\JasperStarter\jdbc';
        return [
            'driver' => 'sqlsrv',
            'host' => env('DB_HOST'),
            'port' => env('DB_PORT'),
            'username' => env('DB_USERNAME'),
            'password' => env('DB_PASSWORD'),
            'database' => env('DB_DATABASE'),
            'jdbc_driver' => 'com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver',
            'jdbc_url' => 'jdbc:sqlserver://localhost:1433;databaseName=Employee;DataSource=(local)',
            'jdbc_dir' => $jdbc_dir
        ];
    }

    public function generateReport(){
        $jasper = new JasperPHP;

        $extension = 'pdf';
        $name = 'Employee';
        $filename = $name . time();
        $output = base_path('/public/reports/' .$filename);
        // JasperPHP::compile(storage_path('app/public'). '/reports/Employee.jrxml')->execute();

        $jasper->process(
            storage_path('app/public/reports/Employee.jasper'),
            $output,
            array($extension),
            array('id' => 1014),
            $this->dbConfig(),
            "pt_BR"
        )->execute();

        $file = $output . '.' . $extension;

        if(!file_exists($file)){
        }
        if($extension == 'xls'){
            header('Content-Description: Arquivo Excel');
            header('Content-Type: application/x-msexcel');
            header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.basename($file).'"');
            header('Expires: 0');
            header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate');
            header('Pragma: public');
            header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
            flush(); // Flush system output buffer
            readfile($file);
            unlink($file) ;
            die();
        }
        else if($extension == 'pdf')
        {
            return response()->file($file)->deleteFileAfterSend();
        }
    }

Answer 1

Ya for me in laravel 8 it works fine....

I did composer require cossou/jasperphp

Then in

File config/app.php

<?php
//...
'providers' => [
    //...
    Illuminate\Translation\TranslationServiceProvider::class,
    Illuminate\Validation\ValidationServiceProvider::class,
    Illuminate\View\ViewServiceProvider::class,

    //insert jasper service provider here
    JasperPHP\JasperPHPServiceProvider::class
],

Inside web.php i added

 use JasperPHP\JasperPHP as JasperPHP;


     Route::get('/java', function () {
    
            $jasper = new JasperPHP;
        
            // Compile a JRXML to Jasper
          $t=  $jasper->compile( '/home/midhun/hi/hello.jrxml')->execute();
         
        var_dump($t);
     
            // Process a Jasper file to PDF and RTF (you can use directly the .jrxml)
            $jasper->process(
                '/home/midhun/hi/hello.jrxml',
                false,
                array("pdf", "rtf"),
                array("php_version" => "8.0.3")
            )->execute();
        
            // List the parameters from a Jasper file.
            $array = $jasper->list_parameters(
                '/home/midhun/hi/hello.jrxml'
            )->execute();
            var_dump($array);
            return view('welcome');
        });

After Running php artisian serve

and opening in browser localhost:8000/java

I got the pdf file

and the pdf as