Hi,
BACKGROUND ============ I am looking to create a series of Certificates and Brouchures etc and then using the products Print/Acrobat Distiller option save the documents as PDF(with some pre-built in <<Name1>>, <<address1>>, <<address2>> variables that can be automatically resolved "on-the fly" using a PHP script using a PDF_REPACE(see below code) option or something similar. This then allows me to Create Nice looking Brouchures/Certificates etc with "variable <<abc>> markers" before converting to PDF so my online user can have "personalised stationary" without the need for them to EDIT any of the documents. My attempts using PHP -> PDF on the fly.... =================================== I am looking for guidance on whats the best method and am I on the right track without using the long winded PDFLIB functions.. I wonder if you could help(I'm going round in circles!), I a looking to use PHP -> PDF, probably with PDF templates instead of actual PDFLIB coding techniques. I have tried to create a simply script(before I move on)which will process a "PDF pre-written" template and resolve variables on the fly(without using any PDFLIB functions etc). I created a simple script to do this using Microsoft RTF but obviously this would only work on PC's where users have WORD etc...(I assume) I have tried myself but keep getting the error msg "The file is damaged and could not be repaired" when it trys to load the "amended " PDF file(see the sample script below). By the way, the script works fine if I comment out the PDF_REPLACE option. I assume these are causing some type of error?? I tried updating the Acrobat prefences/options to not load in a Browser but that just downloaded to my PC and the same error message appeared after I double clicked on it... The PDF template small script is attached as an example. Rgds Bev <?php set_time_limit( 180 ); // this script can be very slow //create short variable names $name = $HTTP_POST_VARS['name']; $score = $HTTP_POST_VARS['score']; function pdf_replace( $pattern, $replacement, $string ) { $len = strlen( $pattern ); $regexp = ''; for ( $i = 0; $i<$len; $i++ ) { $regexp .= $pattern[$i]; if ($i<$len-1) $regexp .= "(\)\-{0,1}[0-9]*\(){0,1}"; } return ereg_replace ( $regexp, $replacement, $string ); } if(!$name||!$score) { echo '<h1>Error:</h1>This page was called incorrectly'; } else { //generate the headers to help a browser choose the correct application $date = date( 'F d, Y' ); // open our template file $filename = 'PHPCertification.pdf'; $fp = fopen ( $filename, 'r' ); //read our template into a variable $output = fread( $fp, filesize( $filename ) ); header( 'Content-type: application/pdf' ); header( 'Content-Disposition: filename=cert.pdf'); fclose ( $fp ); // replace the place holders in the template with our data $output = pdf_replace( '<<NAME>>', strtoupper( $name ), $output ); $output = pdf_replace( '<<Name>>', $name, $output ); $output = pdf_replace( '<<score>>', $score, $output ); $output = pdf_replace( '<<mm/dd/yyyy>>', $date, $output ); // send the generated document to the browser echo $output; } ?> -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php