RE: FN-FORUM: Populating a PDF using PHP

date posted 1st June 2006 18:14

In an ideal world that would work, but I'm dealing with GE here, they have a
particular way they want things done, that means static PDF's maintaned by
their compliance department that need to be integrated into the website.

Never again will I deal with a large corporate they have been a nightmare,
can you believe it's taken nearly 2 years to get this thing launched? 18
months of that has been meetings, comitees and working groups.

Mac.

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Fogarty
Sent: 01 June 2006 19:12
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Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Populating a PDF using PHP


I would have a simple CMS that allows the forms text to be changed.
That caters for most changes. The only other additional work involved then
is if new fields are required.


Mac T.Wheeler wrote:
> I was hoping not to have to create them from scratch, I have an awfull lot
> of them to implement and they change frequently (as frequently as the
> compliance department can think up new ways of saying the same thing).
>
> Mac.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Fogarty
> Sent: 01 June 2006 18:04
> To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Populating a PDF using PHP
>
>
> The way I did it was to re-create the documents from scratch. It's a bit
> like hand coding a web page and deciding what to do with it next.
> You can store it, open it or email it.
>
> Mac T.Wheeler wrote:
>
>> Sorry folks I may not have explained my problem fully.
>>
>> I have a set of standard PDF documents (think insurance key facts,
>> policy wordings and suchlike) that need to be personalised by
>> inserting data from the on-line application form into them before
>>
> printing.
>
>> I don't need to create the whole PDF, just insert a few data fields
>> into them. Is this a possibility? Or would I have to take the route of
>> creating the documents from scratch?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> [EMAIL REMOVED]
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of Ray
>> McGinty
>> Sent: 01 June 2006 16:19
>> To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
>> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Populating a PDF using PHP
>>
>>
>> On 1 Jun 2006, at 14:52, Mac T.Wheeler wrote:
>>
>>
>>> One of the projects I am working on requires an application form to
>>> be filled in on the web and then a PDF needs to be printed with the
>>> data from the application form imbedded in it.
>>>
>>> I've not tried this before, does anybody have a link to a how-to or
>>> something similar please? Alternatively any advice would also be
>>> welcome :)
>>>
>>>
>> There's a PHP class called ezpdf which I've been using for a while
>> which you can use to build a pdf from scratch. I've found it pretty
>> good. You can get it from here:
>>
>> http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Ray
>>
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