> -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Coutu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 8:57 AM > To: Greater New Hampshire Linux Users > Subject: Custom printing from web form data? > > > What I'm trying to accomplish is to print certificates (to be > snail-mailed) > based on data collected from a form on a web site. I think it > would be most > efficient to print from a cron job using the data that had > been previously > collected and stored in a useful place, like a MySQL database. > > The tricky part is that the certificates should look fairly > classy, which > means they can't be just plain ASCII text. They should > include graphic > elements such as your typical certificate border with the > fancy artwork. Of > course multiple colors are required too.
I'm not really knowledgeable about this, but PHP does offer PDF-formatting functions. Perhaps there's some way you could create a template PDF and just change the things that you need to change, and print that out... http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdf.php Of course, I'm sure Perl has a module for this somewhere as well. Erik _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss