Re: Serial Numbers
| From: | Paul M Foster | Date: | Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:49:04 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Serial Numbers | ||
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On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 02:52:39PM -0400, Gary wrote:
> I'm sure it is possible, but I am unsure how to do this. I have created a
> Sale coupon that I was going to put up on a site that I manage, for visitors
> to print out and bring to the store. The coupon is currently a .png, however
> I was planning on converting to a pdf. I would like to put on the coupon a
> serial number that increases by 1 everytime the page is viewed. I dont
> really care if someone refreshes the page and skews the numbers.
>
> Is this possible and could someone give me some help?
Doing this in a PDF is pretty easy. Check out the FPDF library. It's
pretty lightweight. I print invoices to PDF all the time, so I have to
insert numbers into PDFs created by FPDF. Check the documentation.
Paul
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Paul M. Foster