On Wednesday 04 May 2005 22:30, Dan Rossi wrote: > On 05/05/2005, at 1:47 AM, Kristen G. Thorson wrote: > > Dan, > > > > I have done this before, but it was only a proof-of concept excercise > > for me, so my procedure may not work for you. My test was against an > > Amazon web service and generating a PDF from the XML returned to me. > > > > This method used Apache's FOP. Before executing the following code, I > > saved the XML returned from Amazon as a temp file ($xmlfile). > > > > $PDFfile = "$xmlfile.pdf"; > > $callstring = "$FOPpath/fop.sh -xsl $xslforoot/$xslfofile -xml > > $xmlfile -pdf $PDFfile"; > > $answer = shell_exec( $callstring ); > > header( "Content-type: $ctype" ); > > $pieces = explode( "/", $xmlfile ); > > header( "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".$pieces[ count( > > $pieces )-1 ] ); > > readfile( "$xmlfile.pdf" ); > > > > > > I hope this is helpful to you, > > kgt > > Hi yes this is exactly what i may have to do. I have tried all the > usual outlets in terms of subclasses of FPDF , all are limited and > crappy, it just cant do tables properly. The closest I got was with > PDML however it was still tedious to build a table with ! Now I think > processing for such a command line would take forever this is what I > need to do, a print button displays on the header of a form entry. What > i need to do is collect the data from that database entry and display > it as a view with the data rather than the form and make it printable > in a pdf. This ideally means generate xml from the db entry, save it as > a file, execute commandline with temp xml file, readfile the pdf. I > dont think it should take too long to output to the browser right ? I > think a step i'd like to skip is the readfile, and work out how to send > to standard output and use passthru ? > > In the past I have used an app called HTMLDoc, its the bomb for making > pdf manuals with chapters and table of contents. It also requires > saving a temp html file and then sends the pdf as standard output. > However HTMLDoc is not free anymore, I only have one licence for that > to make docs only. Have you tried this? It seems HTMLDoc is still free... I've used that tool also... pretty satisfied. http://www.htmldoc.org/software.php -Stathis -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
