Generate PDF

[Miko]

Hello,

 

I must make a PDF with PHP.

The following things should come on this PDF file:

 

- title

- description of about 4 lines

- images

- image name

- 2 options of this image (something like check)

 

So basically one of my users comes on my webpage (intranet) gets a result with some search requests.

Then he should create a pdf file that will contain the title, description + images and the options.

 

Creating a pdf isn't so complicated, the main issue is that the amount of images that the user requests is variable.

Fortunally each image has a size of 240px width and 120px height, what I want to do is place those images next and below each other on the pdf.

 

So basically something like this:

 

A Title

Some description

 

Image 01 | Image 02 | Image 03 | Image 04

ImgNm 01 | ImgNm 02 | ImgNm 03 |ImgNm 04

 

Image 05 | Image 06 | Image 07 | Image 08

ImgNm 05 | ImgNm 06 | ImgNm 07 |ImgNm 08

 

And so on ...

 

Somebody know how to do this or may know a script that can do this?

 

Thanks!

[Mchl]

As long as you know how to use for and while loops there's nothing complicated in that.

 

As a primer you might want to write a code that will write image names just like you did above. Then just replace part responsible for text with code that will insert image

[Miko]

So bassicaly I can write loop in loop so that I can position my images and image names?

[Mchl]

That's how it's usually done

[Miko]

okay thanks! I know what to do now

[Miko]

Okay, I've been working on this one now and I'm having allready an error

 

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'PDFlibException' with message 'String parameter 'type' has bad value 'jpg'' in C:\xampp\htdocs\control_signatures\pdf.php:30 Stack trace: #0 C:\xampp\htdocs\control_signatures\pdf.php(30): pdf_open_image_file(Resource id #4, 'jpg', '001-STRUVAY.jpg', 'page', 0) #1 {main} thrown in C:\xampp\htdocs\control_signatures\pdf.php on line 30

 

Here's the code

 

<?php

$dir = "./0532/20091022/T301/";
$open = opendir("./0532/20091022/T301/");
$result = glob("./0532/20091022/T301/*.jpg");

// Create the PDF object
$mypdf = PDF_new();

// Open / create PDF

PDF_open_file($mypdf, "");

// Begin of page
PDF_begin_page($mypdf, 595, 842);	

$myfont = PDF_findfont($mypdf, "Times-Roman", "host", 0);
PDF_setfont($mypdf, $myfont, 10);

// Show text

for($i=0; $i < count($result); $i++){

	$source = $result[$i];
	$name = basename($source, ".jpg");
	$getSize = getimagesize($dir.$name. ".jpg");
	$width = $getSize[0];
	$height = $getSize[1];

	$myimage = PDF_open_image_file($mypdf, "jpg", "001-STRUVAY.jpg", "page", $i);
	PDF_place_image($mypdf, $myimage);
	PDF_close_image($mypdf, $myimage);

}	
	PDF_show_xy($mypdf, "SAMPLE PDF", 50, 750);
	PDF_show_xy($mypdf, "Made by Avril", 50, 730);
	// End of page
	PDF_end_page($mypdf);

// Close / delete PDF
PDF_close($mypdf);

$mybuf = PDF_get_buffer($mypdf);
$mylen = strlen($mybuf);
header("Content-type: application/pdf");
header("Content-Length: $mylen");
header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=signatures$dir.pdf");
print $mybuf;

PDF_delete($mypdf);

?>

 

Don't know what I'm doing wrong here

[Mchl]

The message is pretty clear. Second parameter for pdf_open_image_file() can not have value 'jpg'. Don't ask me what it's supposed to be. I've never worked with this lib.