Re: Generating word documents based on fields in a browser
| From: | Craig | Date: | Wed, 10 Jul 2002 15:13:53 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Generating word documents based on fields in a browser | ||
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I know that php can open files.
What I was wondering is if it can :-
Start Word
Open a Word template
Generate fields in the template based on hidden fields and generate the page
"David Otton" <david.otton@overnetdata.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 15:53:36 +0100, you wrote:
>
> >I want to create a form, similar to an invoicing system that generates a
> >word document that the user can print out
>
> You may have better luck with RTF
> (http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/nair20020523.php3) or PDF
> (http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.cpdf.php)...
>
> (but what can the Word format do that HTML can't? Why can't they print
> out an HTML invoice?)
>