PHP to PDF is it possible

[gazalec]

ok my new problem is at the company i work for we have QC Certificates for every product me make and they are in PDF format, the only problem is these are stored locally all day then at 6 o'clock every night hundreds of PDF's are uploaded each night, so as you can image it slows down our web server and has even started crashing the local server, so i thought if we had a template of each product of all the information thats the same, e.g. product a is always going to be called b and always going to cost c if you know what i mean, the only problem is that customers still want to view these certificates as PDFs, so they can download them, print them etc. so i was wondering if it is possible to make my PHP/HTML documents into PDFs.

[flappy_warbucks]

Yes there is you will be glad to hear, you can either install the PHP_LIB.dll thingie on the PHP installation, or do what i had to do and write a PDF class to handle the writing and making of PDF's

 

Such a class can be found here:

 

http://www.zend.com/zend/spotlight/creatingpdfmay1.php

 

always remember: Google is your friend in times like this.

[gazalec]

do i need the PHP_LIB.dll installed for this to work?, because when i'm coding in DreamWeaver usually it recognizes PHP functions and makes them blue but it isn't as though it's wrong?, and i get a fatal error when using PDF_new();

[tauchai83]

hi....i think you don need to go through so much step. There is a class written i.e PDF class

 

/*******************************************************************************

* Software: FPDF                                                              *

* Version:  1.52                                                              *

* Date:    2003-12-30                                                        *

* Author:  Olivier PLATHEY                                                    *

* License:  Freeware                                                          *

*                                                                              *

* You may use, modify and redistribute this software as you wish.              *

*******************************************************************************/

 

class FPDF

{

//Private properties

var $page;              //current page number

var $n;                  //current object number

var $offsets;            //array of object offsets

var $buffer;            //buffer holding in-memory PDF

var $pages;              //array containing pages

var $state;              //current document state

var $compress;          //compression flag

var $DefOrientation;    //default orientation

var $CurOrientation;    //current orientation

var $OrientationChanges; //array indicating orientation changes

var $k;                  //scale factor (number of points in user unit)

var $fwPt,$fhPt;        //dimensions of page format in points

var $fw,$fh;            //dimensions of page format in user unit

var $wPt,$hPt;          //current dimensions of page in points

var $w,$h;              //current dimensions of page in user unit

var $lMargin;            //left margin

var $tMargin;            //top margin

var $rMargin;            //right margin

var $bMargin;            //page break margin

var $cMargin;            //cell margin

var $x,$y;              //current position in user unit for cell positioning

var $lasth;              //height of last cell printed

var $LineWidth;          //line width in user unit

var $CoreFonts;          //array of standard font names

var $fonts;              //array of used fonts

var $FontFiles;          //array of font files

var $diffs;              //array of encoding differences

var $images;            //array of used images

var $PageLinks;          //array of links in pages

var $links;              //array of internal links

var $FontFamily;        //current font family

var $FontStyle;          //current font style

var $underline;          //underlining flag

var $CurrentFont;        //current font info

var $FontSizePt;        //current font size in points

var $FontSize;          //current font size in user unit

var $DrawColor;          //commands for drawing color

var $FillColor;          //commands for filling color

var $TextColor;          //commands for text color

var $ColorFlag;          //indicates whether fill and text colors are different

var $ws;                //word spacing

var $AutoPageBreak;      //automatic page breaking

var $PageBreakTrigger;  //threshold used to trigger page breaks

var $InFooter;          //flag set when processing footer

var $ZoomMode;          //zoom display mode

var $LayoutMode;        //layout display mode

var $title;              //title

var $subject;            //subject

var $author;            //author

var $keywords;          //keywords

var $creator;            //creator

var $AliasNbPages;      //alias for total number of pages

}

 

I don have the exact URL for this. But you may google about this class using any search engine.