Chapter 16. Graphing, Printing, and Reporting

In This Chapter

Generating Graphs 367

Creating Printable Pages 387

Generating Reports 397

Many ColdFusion applications involve some type of data reporting. If you’re building an online store, for instance, you’ll want to generate printable invoices or create a series of report-style pages that show the number of products sold per month. If you’re building a community site, you might create a page that shows how many people log on during which parts of the day, or run a report of daily usage. Or, if you’re building a Web site for a movie studio (ahem), you might create reports that show the expenses to date for each film, and which films are in danger of going over budget.

It’d be easy to imagine how ...

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