RE: [PHP] "report" generation with PHP

From: Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 14:07:17 +0000
Subject: RE: [PHP] "report" generation with PHP
Groups: php.general 
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>===== Original Message From Morten Winkler Jørgensen <madmax@mip.sdu.dk> ===== >Hi Matthew, > >MG> Now I want to be able to generate this report from the web. It doesn't >MG> have to use Access (and I would prefer that it didn't, so I can convert to >MG> MySQL). But I don't know of a nice (and easy!) way to generate such a >MG> report. Using HTML tables isn't acceptable---when you print, you still >MG> get the header and footer that the browser adds (and it's unacceptable to >MG> have everyone modify their browser's setup). Furthermore, the printable >MG> list has to look as close as possible to the original, because if I start >MG> changing formats, people will get upset. > >Try PHP's PDF extension. That way you can create neat documents. I forgot to mention that I already looked into the PDF extensions. Although it looks like it would do exactly what I want, the PDFLib isn't free for commercial use. As an intern, I'm not in a position to make purchase decisions (and I'm pretty sure my supervisor won't pay for it either!). Thanks anyway, Matt

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