Hi all!
I'm trying out this script I found in a book I bought. It does not work
though.. The code is below. It looked like an easy solution for what I want
to do.
It takes a template PDF file and replaces <<description1>> with a value,
<<bedr1>> with a value,...
I want to be able to generate an PDF invoice automatically, based on a
template PDF.
I get this error: "The file is damaged and could not be repaired."
Except when I comment out the 4 $output = pdf_replace( ....) lines.. then it
works.. so something is wrong with the pdf_replace function..
If I open the PDF in Notepad I noticed it got cut off quite in the beginning
of the file..
Does anyone have an idea?
Or does someone know an other way to create PDF's based on a PDF, on the
fly, using PHP??
Thanks!
Mark.
<?
set_time_limit( 180 ); // this script can be very slow
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 );
}
$description1="PDF creation module";
$bedrag1="240";
$total1="480";
//generate the headers to help a browser choose the correct application
header( "Content-Disposition: filename=result.pdf");
header( "Content-type: application/pdf" );
$date = date( "F d, Y" );
// open our template file
$filename = "template.pdf";
$fp = fopen ( $filename, "r" );
//read our template into a variable
$output = fread( $fp, filesize( $filename ) );
fclose ( $fp );
// replace the place holders in the template with our data
$output = pdf_replace( "<<description1>>", $description1, $output );
$output = pdf_replace( "<<bedr1>>", $bedrag1, $output );
$output = pdf_replace( "<<tot1>>", $total1, $output );
$output = pdf_replace( "<<mm/dd/yyyy>>", $date, $output );
// send the generated document to the browser
echo $output;
?>
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