Using PHP to Create Dynamic PDF Files

berated-

United States1134 Posts

May 21 2007 08:41 GMT

I've done quite a bit of Googling on creating Dynamic PDF files using php and have found some responses but none of which have really helped me. I was just wondering if anyone has actually used this first hand. I need to create a page that will automatically generate Award Certificates based off of information queried from a database. If anyone could help I would greatly appreciate it.

If you would rather chat about it through AIM/MSN I have both so message me and I will respond with my screen name.

Thank you in advance,

berated-

Carnac

Germany / USA16648 Posts

May 21 2007 08:45 GMT

why was this closed?

Manifesto7

Osaka27154 Posts

May 21 2007 09:01 GMT

no idea

mrmin123

Korea (South)2971 Posts

May 21 2007 09:03 GMT

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zdd

1463 Posts

May 21 2007 09:12 GMT

One way I can see of doing this easily is generate the certificate into html, then use cutepdf or a similar thing to print directly to pdf. With the right tweaks and settings you should be able to automate the whole process.

berated-

United States1134 Posts

May 21 2007 09:14 GMT

On May 21 2007 18:12 zdd wrote:
One way I can see of doing this easily is generate the certificate into html, then use cutepdf or a similar thing to print directly to pdf. With the right tweaks and settings you should be able to automate the whole process.

Have you used cutepdf before? I haven't done a whole of html -> pdf but I've tried quite a bit of pdf -> html and it never turns out right.

oHInsane

France727 Posts

May 21 2007 09:23 GMT

I already did this to generate some "states" for an university. I used "fpdf" to create pdf on the fly. basically you create your html page and put it into an "obj" then instead of displaying the html content of the obj, you juste put it on an fpdf object that will automatically render your html code into a pdf file. Very usefull tool and very well maintained.

I don't have the official website in english but i think you can find some documentation quite esaily.

zdd

1463 Posts

May 21 2007 09:24 GMT

Well cutepdf simply takes what output you would normally send to your printer and turns it into a pdf file, I think it works pretty accurately too. There's a built in PDF generator library in php too, if you'd like to use that: (http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/PDF-Generation-With-PHP/1/)