Posted by NC on 10/13/28 11:41

AK wrote:
>
> I see in the php manual I got at the bookstore that pph can write
> data to a pdf,

Be sure your server has required extentions installed; if not, you
might be forced to use a pure PHP solution such as FPDF; it will still
work, but somewhat slower.

> BUT, to me it seems like a pretty brute force raw-code method -
> almost as bad as coding an html webpage entirely by hand,
> instead of using a html page generator/widard.

Well, that's PDF for you...

> 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?

Think about it... How do you generate PDF on your computer? You
generate the document first in another program and then "print" it into
PDF, directly or by generating PostScipt first... PDF is not something
that is easy to create from scratch...

You could look into software that converts HTML into PDF. This,
however, will require installing additional executables on your Web
server...

Cheers,
NC

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