Create pdf from database info

[samoht]

Hello all,

 

I have a directory page that is populated with a foreach loop pulling info from a db table. I want to make a "Download Directory pdf" button that will print out the directory entries in a nicely formatted way.

The thing is that the foreach loop uses an OO call to what every template is being used for the HTML display:

foreach ( (array) $results as $row)
{
     ...
	$out .= '<div class="cn-list-row' . $alternate . ' vcard ' . $template->slug . ' ' . $entry->getCategoryClass(TRUE) . '">' . "\n";
		$out = apply_filters('cn_entry_before', $out, $entry);
		ob_start();
		include($template->file);
	    $out .= ob_get_contents();
	    ob_end_clean();
		$out = apply_filters('cn_entry_after', $out, $entry);
	$out .= '</div>' . "\n";

}
$out .= '<div class="clear"></div>' . "\n";
$out .= '</div>' . "\n";

$out = apply_filters('cn_list_after', $out, $results);

return $out;
}

 

Any Ideas??

[samoht]

I meant to say "whatever template is being used"

 

include($template->file);

 

 

[BlueSkyIS]

if you are trying to convert HTML to PDF, i suggest that you skip it and just use FPDF to write to PDF.

 

www.fpdf.org

[samoht]

BlueSkyIS,

 

Thanks for the link. I will use FPDF as the library. What I was not sure about was the creation of the pdf. I will read up on the tuts for FPDF - but I was hoping I wouldn't have to add to much code to the files to generate the pdf material.