Re: [PHP] PDF Printing instead?
On Jan 5, 2012, at 3:14 PM, Jim Giner wrote: ok - somebody has advised that I should not be trying to print to a printer from my website php script. The suggestion of creating a pdf and sending to the client was made. How do I install the pdf functions? I've never had to install a package before or is that something my hoster does? Do you mean something like this: http://webbytedd.com/bb/pdf/ If so, Google pdf php and then look at the manual: http://php.net/manual/en/book.pdf.php OR you can try different libraries, such as: http://ros.co.nz/pdf/ -- nice demo there Cheers, tedd _ t...@sperling.com http://sperling.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PDF Printing instead?
On 1/5/12 14:40, Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: The fpdf and/or tcpdf libraries are the standard answers to this. Depending on requirements, another good option may be Pdftk. Where TCPDF is focused on document creation, Pdftk is focused on document manipulation, and because it's a compiled binary that you install, it's very fast (and easily used from PHP via exec() and family). Regards, Bob -- Robert E. Williams, Jr. Associate Vice President of Software Development Newtek Businesss Services, Inc. -- The Small Business Authority https://www.newtekreferrals.com/rewjr http://www.thesba.com/ Notice: This communication, including attachments, may contain information that is confidential. It constitutes non-public information intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If the reader or recipient of this communication is not the intended recipient, an employee or agent of the intended recipient who is responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, or if you believe that you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and promptly delete this e-mail, including attachments without reading or saving them in any manner. The unauthorized use, dissemination, distribution, or reproduction of this e-mail, including attachments, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail or telephone and delete the e-mail and the attachments (if any). -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] PDF Printing instead?
ok - somebody has advised that I should not be trying to print to a printer from my website php script. The suggestion of creating a pdf and sending to the client was made. How do I install the pdf functions? I've never had to install a package before or is that something my hoster does? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PDF Printing instead?
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Jim Giner jim.gi...@albanyhandball.comwrote: ok - somebody has advised that I should not be trying to print to a printer from my website php script. The suggestion of creating a pdf and sending to the client was made. How do I install the pdf functions? I've never had to install a package before or is that something my hoster does? If you're on shared hosting, it'd be something your hosting company does. I used fpdf for my last pdf job. Although, I personally do not see a problem with having people just print a nicely formatted web page out. -- -Dan Joseph http://www.danjoseph.me
Re: [PHP] PDF Printing instead?
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Dan Joseph dmjos...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Jim Giner jim.gi...@albanyhandball.comwrote: ok - somebody has advised that I should not be trying to print to a printer from my website php script. The suggestion of creating a pdf and sending to the client was made. How do I install the pdf functions? I've never had to install a package before or is that something my hoster does? If you're on shared hosting, it'd be something your hosting company does. I used fpdf for my last pdf job. Although, I personally do not see a problem with having people just print a nicely formatted web page out. I've used TCPDF in some projects - does not need much in the way of installing, just stick all the TCPDF files in a subfolder on your website then include the main php file. As an added hint, if you don't need lots of fonts, you can safely delete all the ones you don't want to reduce the disk usage considerably. Davo -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PDF Printing instead?
On 2012-01-05, at 3:14 PM, Jim Giner jim.gi...@albanyhandball.com wrote: ok - somebody has advised that I should not be trying to print to a printer from my website php script. The suggestion of creating a pdf and sending to the client was made. How do I install the pdf functions? I've never had to install a package before or is that something my hoster does? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php Also try dompdf from digitaljunkies.ca. It allows you to pass an HTML doc to the code to provide a PDF Bastien -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PDF Printing instead?
Also try dompdf from digitaljunkies.ca. It allows you to pass an HTML doc to the code to provide a PDF I think in this case it should say It doesn't work!. :) Marc -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PDF Printing instead?
Also try dompdf from digitaljunkies.ca. It allows you to pass an HTML doc to the code to provide a PDF I think in this case it should say It doesn't work!. :) maybe this: http://code.google.com/p/dompdf/ -G -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PDF Printing instead?
On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 03:14:58PM -0500, Jim Giner wrote: ok - somebody has advised that I should not be trying to print to a printer from my website php script. The suggestion of creating a pdf and sending to the client was made. How do I install the pdf functions? I've never had to install a package before or is that something my hoster does? The fpdf and/or tcpdf libraries are the standard answers to this. The fpdf library is more primitive, but if your needs are simple, it's considerably less bulky than tcpdf. Installation on either one should be very simple, as in, download the package, put it in a subdirectory, read the documentation, and start. I use fpdf constantly for printing invoices, reports, etc. Once you've built a PDF (by following the instructions for the specific package), dump it in a subdirectory and provide a link to it on a webpage. The user can then simply click on the link and their browser will open it and provide the native (usually Adobe Reader) interface for viewing and printing it. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
