Posted by AK on 10/13/78 11:41

OK Thanks for the reply - I will check. Also see my clarification. I think
though that you understood what I was trying to do.

AK


"J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> wrote in message
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> AK wrote:
>
>> Question - Is there some utility/widard that folks use on the web server
>> end to get data out of the My SQL and onto a pdf , which I would then
>> send by email?
>
> As people has different needs, it's difficult to make a script that will
> generate a pdf on a result from a sql query.
>
> It's really better to write that yourself, you know how you want your
> pages to look, if you just fetch rows with X columns, the method to get it
> appear on your HTML page wouldn't be so much different that the one needed
> for pdf.
>
> You would need to think of that 0,0 is the right bottom corner and that
> you need to keep check of the page size. When you made the general code
> for generating one page, you easily make that to work in a loop to
> generate many pages. You get a lot more control of how things should be
> than if you had used some general code someone else had written.
>
>
> Keep in mind, before you start to use pdf in php, see that your webhost
> does have pdf support in their php.
>
>
> //Aho

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