Re: Does anyone know if this is possible?

Ok! I think I will try a little more to get it work with php first, but it is a good idea you have here. Thanks! : ) Raymond "Joel Boonstra" <jboonstra@gospelcom.net> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0211041703230.11800-100000@amos.gf.gospelcom.net... > Hi Raymond, > > > I have made a website with a webshop and the orders are written down in > > txtfiles and a faxserver is scanning a directory for txtfiles and sends them > > as faxes. > > > > So I am trying to write the txtfile like I should have written the order in > > a table. Or you can say I am trying to make some columns in the txtfile. > > > > Something like this: > > > > 1 pizza cheese, beef, tomato, 5,- > > ham, bacon etc........ > > 2 burgers cheese, bacon 2,- > > I *think* if you're committed to doing this in PHP, you'll need to look > at the sprintf() or printf() functions: > > http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.sprintf.php > > You're given some level of control over the output of your program. I > don't know if you can get what you describe above, though. > > If you're not adverse to looking to another language, Perl was built to > do exactly this. Perl Formats do what you need -- they provide a method > for generating "simple, formatted reports and charts", according to the > camel book. I know of no analagous capability of PHP (although I may > very well be wrong). > > If you can't use perl for the whole thing, perhaps you could have PHP do > all your logic, and then pass the data to a perl script to format and > save it to a file. Or maybe sprintf() does everything you need... > > Joel > > (more on perl formats: > http://www.perl.com/doc/manual/html/pod/perlform.html) > > -- > [ joel boonstra | jboonstra@gospelcom.net ] >