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[chiPHPug-discuss] create .pdf's online

[Melanie M. <me...@po...>]

Anybody know how to create .pdf's online.  More details..

 

I have people taking a test, when they have completed the test, I need the
report to output as a .pdf.  The information that is to print out will be
coming from information that is stored in a database. 

 

Any suggestions?

 

 

~Melanie

 

Re: [chiPHPug-discuss] create .pdf's online

[Janine S. <jr...@ba...>]

I don't know if there's a way to do it immediately, but you could open 
it in OpenOffice and save to pdf.

Janine

Melanie McClusky wrote:
>
> Anybody know how to create .pdf’s online. More details….
>
> I have people taking a test, when they have completed the test, I need 
> the report to output as a .pdf. The information that is to print out 
> will be coming from information that is stored in a database.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> ~Melanie
>

Re: [chiPHPug-discuss] create .pdf's online

[Peter H. <ph...@ma...>]

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On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 04:50:58PM -0600, Melanie McClusky wrote:
> I have people taking a test, when they have completed the test, I need the
> report to output as a .pdf.  The information that is to print out will be
> coming from information that is stored in a database. 

PHP has an optional library that lets you work with pdfs: http://php.net/pdf
You could create a PDF template, open it, add the user's results, save
it, and send it.


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Re: [chiPHPug-discuss] create .pdf's online

[Ken D. <ke...@se...>]

I used fpdf for exactly the same purpose, certificates after taking a
test.http://www.fpdf.org"Melanie McClusky"
<me...@po...> wrote:  > Anybody know how to create
.pdf's online.  More details.. >  >   >  > I have people taking a
test, when they have completed the test, I need the > report to output as a
.pdf.  The information that is to print out will be > coming from
information that is stored in a database.  >  >   >  > Any
suggestions? >  >   >  >   >  > ~Melanie >  >   > 
>
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Re: [chiPHPug-discuss] create .pdf's online

[Richard L. <ce...@l-...>]

On Thu, January 18, 2007 4:50 pm, Melanie McClusky wrote:
> Anybody know how to create .pdf's online.  More details..
>
> I have people taking a test, when they have completed the test, I need
> the
> report to output as a .pdf.  The information that is to print out will
> be
> coming from information that is stored in a database.

I've used http://php.net/pdf maybe a dozen times.

Here's a simple example:
http://uncommonground.com/engineers/cheatsheet.pdf
http://uncommonground.com/engineers/cheatsheet.phps
This one has no database variables, but you can probably work out that
bit easily enough already.
I find it a lot easier to think in "inches" and use "X * 72" all over
the place.

Here's one a bit more complicated:
http://uncommonground.com/events.pdf
http://uncommonground.com/events_pdf.phps
This pulls a rather complicated query from the database, inserts JPG
images, and dynamically chooses a font size between a range based on
the amount of space the text needs for each date on the calendar.
This one was done long before I figured out the * 72 trick...
(The globals.inc just defines the 'pagetop' and 'pagebot' functions
that are used in case of a total failure -- ignore it)

You probably need something in between these two in terms of complexity.

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