Amanda Hemmerich is quoted as saying on 11/12/2004 4:01 PM:
Is there a fairly straightforward way to generate a PDF out of a .php file
that's made up of includes and the includes are contructed dynamically
using data from mysql? This page normally displays the info based on
parameters passed through the url or through a form. I've been looking
<SNIP>
Here's what I used to use, and i know that there are better ways to do it now,
but it works for me:
a form to pass the data from, and then some includes
<?php
//HTML2PDF by Clément Lavoillotte
include_once('/home/fpdf/fpdf/html2pdf.php');
//connect to database
include 'db.php';
include 'salesinfo.php';
$order_id = $_POST[order_id];
$faxnumber = $_POST[faxnum];
$html = "";
$time = "-";
$time .= date("mdY-His");
$outtie = "/saved_quotes/$user";
$title = "Quote for $acct $uFname $uLname on $today";
$subject = "Quote for $acct $uFname $uLname on $today";
$author = "$uFname $uLname";
$outtie .= "-";
$html .= "<html>\n<head>\n<title>";
$html .= $title;
$html .= "</title>\n</head>\n<body bgcolor=\"white\">\n";
include 'order_header.php';
$html .= $header_block;
include 'views_order_head.php';
$html .= $view_head_block;
include 'views_order_body.php';
$html .= $display_block;
$html .= "\n</body>\n</html>";
$outtie .= $num;
$outtie .= $time;
$tempfilename = $outtie;
$outps = $outtie;
$outps .= ".ps";
$tempfilename .= ".html";
$outtie .= ".pdf";
$out_url = "/saved_quotes/$user-$num$time.pdf";
$tempfile = fopen($tempfilename,'w');
fwrite($tempfile, $html);
fclose($tempfile);
$last_line = system("/usr/local/bin/html2ps $tempfilename > $outps", $retval);
$last_line = system("/usr/bin/ps2pdf $outps $outtie", $retval);
$last_line = system("/usr/bin/sendfax -n -d $faxnumber $outtie", $retval);
$ps_line = system("/bin/rm -f $outps", $retval);
//header("Location: $out_url");
//exit;
HTH,
Robert
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