Build pdf file?

[Rick]

Hello all.

My brother would like to create a website that high school math
teachers could use. They would come to the web site and say "I'd like
to have a worksheet on two-variable algebra." Then the web site would
generate a pdf file for them. The information would be stored in a
database. MySql or something similar.

Is Php an appropriate vehicle for this? Has someone already done
something similar? Is there a "wiki" for Php?

My brother is a high school math teacher (naturally). I am a
professional programmer, but I have not done much with web pages, and
I have never used Php. Usually, I use Tcl and C.

Any ideas are appreciated. Here's how my brother expressed his
problem:

. . . I betcha there's a way to write an ASP script that would pull
question text from a question database into an MSWord file, instruct
Word to print the file to PDF, and then download it to the user. I bet
MS products are scriptable. Hmmmmm. . . .

Regards,

Rick

[Taliesson Wang]

Re: Build pdf file?

check out php ref document, there is a section about
(pdf.http://cn2.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdf.php)
or visit:http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdf-php/ .
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>
> . . . I betcha there's a way to write an ASP script that would pull
> question text from a question database into an MSWord file, instruct
> Word to print the file to PDF, and then download it to the user. I bet
> MS products are scriptable. Hmmmmm. . . .
>
> Regards,
>
> Rick[/color]

[Pat Scott]

Re: Build pdf file?

Visit http://www.fpdf.org. They have elegant and easy-to-use pdf creation
routines written in php and are free!


"Rick" <rhedin@uiuc.ed u> wrote in message
news:f4e56830.0 311031905.7fc67 8f5@posting.goo gle.com...[color=blue]
> Hello all.
>
> My brother would like to create a website that high school math
> teachers could use. They would come to the web site and say "I'd like
> to have a worksheet on two-variable algebra." Then the web site would
> generate a pdf file for them. The information would be stored in a
> database. MySql or something similar.
>
> Is Php an appropriate vehicle for this? Has someone already done
> something similar? Is there a "wiki" for Php?
>
> My brother is a high school math teacher (naturally). I am a
> professional programmer, but I have not done much with web pages, and
> I have never used Php. Usually, I use Tcl and C.
>
> Any ideas are appreciated. Here's how my brother expressed his
> problem:
>
> . . . I betcha there's a way to write an ASP script that would pull
> question text from a question database into an MSWord file, instruct
> Word to print the file to PDF, and then download it to the user. I bet
> MS products are scriptable. Hmmmmm. . . .
>
> Regards,
>
> Rick[/color]

[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

Re: Build pdf file?

rhedin@uiuc.edu (Rick) wrote in message news:<f4e56830. 0311031905.7fc6 78f5@posting.go ogle.com>...[color=blue]
> Hello all.[/color]
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>Is there a "wiki" for Php?[/color]

http://www.php.net

http://www.php.net/<function name> to get details about the given
function. Also has many usernotes that are much helpful.

eg. php.net/strlen
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> . . . I betcha there's a way to write an ASP script that would pull
> question text from a question database into an MSWord file, instruct
> Word to print the file to PDF,[/color]

Oops! You can directly & simply create PDF from PHP if you use
FPDF lib (http://fpdf.org/ )

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