Re: [PHP] report generation with PHP

2001-07-17 Thread Marius Andreiana

În 17 Jul 2001 19:47:23 +1200 Philip Murray a scris:
 What about using a Windows COM object? There should be one for Access and if
 not you can use the Word one and generate word documents
Don't use Words for that... We've had to generate invoices to be snail-mailed,
imagine if the address in the invoiced didn't matched the envelope's transparent
area... (don't think a word document can handle 6000 invoices anyway)

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RE: [PHP] report generation with PHP

2001-07-17 Thread Marius Andreiana

În 17 Jul 2001 09:56:23 +0200 Jörg Krause a scris:
 PHP has Java-Support build in, has anybody checked out this with a tool
 like FOP (calling Java program from PHP)? Is it stable, good for
 production environment?
Yes, I'd like an answer to this too. Right now I can only call it
with system calls from PHP, but with a native function would be
much nicer (could show the progress too)

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Re: [PHP] report generation with PHP

2001-07-17 Thread Philip Murray



 În 17 Jul 2001 19:47:23 +1200 Philip Murray a scris:
  What about using a Windows COM object? There should be one for Access
and if
  not you can use the Word one and generate word documents
 Don't use Words for that... We've had to generate invoices to be
snail-mailed,

I've also done the same thing. Approximately 400 invoices a day all from a
backend administration website. However, we forked out a license to use the
PDF library.

 imagine if the address in the invoiced didn't matched the envelope's
transparent
 area... (don't think a word document can handle 6000 invoices anyway)

Yes, well true. But, the point was there is the facility to use a COM object
instead of some multi-server or java kludge. If you can find a COM object to
do the task (Matt: you talked about using Access for your needs) then
that'll probably be the easiest/fasted solution on Win32 (short of paying
for PDF).

On a side note, is there some Adobe license which prevents people writing
Free for use PDF libraries? Or is it just by chance that the 2 that exist
require you to purchase a license?

Philip Murray


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Re: [PHP] report generation with PHP

2001-07-16 Thread Morten Winkler Jørgensen

Hi Matthew,


MG Now I want to be able to generate this report from the web.  It doesn't
MG have to use Access (and I would prefer that it didn't, so I can convert to
MG MySQL).  But I don't know of a nice (and easy!) way to generate such a
MG report.  Using HTML tables isn't acceptable---when you print, you still
MG get the header and footer that the browser adds (and it's unacceptable to
MG have everyone modify their browser's setup).  Furthermore, the printable
MG list has to look as close as possible to the original, because if I start
MG changing formats, people will get upset.

Try PHP's PDF extension. That way you can create neat documents.

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RE: [PHP] report generation with PHP

2001-07-16 Thread garman

= Original Message From Morten Winkler Jørgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi Matthew,

MG Now I want to be able to generate this report from the web.  It doesn't
MG have to use Access (and I would prefer that it didn't, so I can convert
to
MG MySQL).  But I don't know of a nice (and easy!) way to generate such a
MG report.  Using HTML tables isn't acceptable---when you print, you still
MG get the header and footer that the browser adds (and it's unacceptable to
MG have everyone modify their browser's setup).  Furthermore, the printable
MG list has to look as close as possible to the original, because if I start
MG changing formats, people will get upset.

Try PHP's PDF extension. That way you can create neat documents.

I forgot to mention that I already looked into the PDF extensions.  Although
it looks like it would do exactly what I want, the PDFLib isn't free for
commercial use.  As an intern, I'm not in a position to make purchase
decisions (and I'm pretty sure my supervisor won't pay for it either!).

Thanks anyway,
Matt


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RE: [PHP] report generation with PHP

2001-07-16 Thread Marius Andreiana

În 16 Jul 2001 09:07:17 -0500 garman a scris:
 I forgot to mention that I already looked into the PDF extensions.  Although 
 it looks like it would do exactly what I want, the PDFLib isn't free for 
You can generate xml in php, write xsl to convert xml in xml-fo
and then use fop to generate pdf, it really works :)
http://xml.apache.org/fop/index.html

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Re: [PHP] report generation with PHP

2001-07-16 Thread Matthew Garman

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 05:19:41PM +0300, Marius Andreiana wrote:
 În 16 Jul 2001 09:07:17 -0500 garman a scris:
  I forgot to mention that I already looked into the PDF extensions.
  Although 
  it looks like it would do exactly what I want, the PDFLib isn't free for 
 You can generate xml in php, write xsl to convert xml in xml-fo
 and then use fop to generate pdf, it really works :)
 http://xml.apache.org/fop/index.html

Does all that work under Windows?  Fop looked like it was part of the
Apache project, and we're running IIS 5.0 on Windows 2000 Pro (not my
decision!).

Thanks again!
Matt

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