Generate Word doc from php

[sabatier]

Hi, I'm doing a college project which involves automatically generating student transcripts from a MySQL database. I want to be able to create a system whereby the user enters the student no, and a Word document is automatically generated which displays the student's results in a a letter format. I am able to create the Word document no problem; it's the formatting that I'm having trouble with. If, say, the student is in fourth year, then the Word document must display four sets of results, like the document I attached.

 

So my question is this: What's the best way to generate a Word document like the one I attached, where four year's results will neatly fit on one page? Should I do a HTML template within PHP or have some mechanism to paste the data into a Word template? Or is there a better way to do it?

 

I'd really appreciate your suggestions!

 

sabatier

 

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[GingerRobot]

You can create word documents on the fly with php. See:

 

http://web.informbank.com/articles/technology/php-office-documents.htm

 

I've never done it myself though, and Im not sure how you would go about using that to create tables. But its worth a look.