In my previous tutorial which is Creating a Report in a Student Registration Using Crystal Reports part 1, I set up the ODBC data source for the Student Registration database.

Introduction: This tutorial will be continuing my series of creating a forum in PHP/MySQLi/HTML. In this fifth part, we will be adding ratings to the threads, I am going to use simple "1 Star" etc. text in order for the user to rate the threads, but you can use images (a star for example). Pre-creation: First you will need a host for your PHP, either a web host or localhost is fine but you will need PHP and MySQL(i) capabilities. Also, this will not be covering creating users, or styling the pages.

In my previous tutorial I created a search and delete data in the Student’s Registration Form. Today, I will teach you how to generate a report using a Crystal Report in the Visual Studio 2008 and MySQL Database. First, you have to set up your data source and the drivers in ODBC data source.