Hi,
I have customer contact information in a MySQL DB. The standard stuff:
first name, last name, city, state, zip, etc.
I'd like to write a PHP script that will take a customer ID range
(e.g., customer 10000 - 11000) and stick those into an MS Word
document, plain text document, or a PDF (any of the three will work).
The key is that each record has to have a page break after it so that
each customer prints on a separate piece of paper.
Anyone know how to do this?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions, links to tutorials, etc. :)
-- Eric 4 11620
Eric Linders wrote: I have customer contact information in a MySQL DB. The standard stuff: first name, last name, city, state, zip, etc.
I'd like to write a PHP script that will take a customer ID range (e.g., customer 10000 - 11000) and stick those into an MS Word document, plain text document, or a PDF (any of the three will work).
The key is that each record has to have a page break after it so that each customer prints on a separate piece of paper.
Anyone know how to do this?
I'd go with the plain text document:
<?php
$txt_file = fopen('textfile .txt', 'wb') or die('Cannot open.');
foreach($dbreco rd as $customer) {
$string = 'Name: ' . $customer['name'] . "\r\n";
$string .= 'Address: ' . $customer['address'] . "\r\n";
// ...
$string .= "\x0C\r\n"; ## \x0C is the "form-feed" character
if (!fwrite($txt_f ile, $string)) die("Unable to write to textfile.txt");
}
fclose($txt_fil e);
?>
But I have no idea how ms word will interpret the form-feed character.
HTH
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I have customer contact information in a MySQL DB. The standard stuff: first name, last name, city, state, zip, etc.
I'd like to write a PHP script that will take a customer ID range (e.g., customer 10000 - 11000) and stick those into an MS Word document, plain text document, or a PDF (any of the three will work).
The key is that each record has to have a page break after it so that each customer prints on a separate piece of paper.
Anyone know how to do this?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions, links to tutorials, etc. :) -- Eric
Mmm, go here: http://www.programmershelp.co.uk/phpcreateword.php
HTH
Garp
Pedro Graca <he****@hotpop. com> wrote in message news:<2h******* *****@uni-berlin.de>... Eric Linders wrote:<SNIP>
Anyone know how to do this?
I'd go with the plain text document:
<?php $txt_file = fopen('textfile .txt', 'wb') or die('Cannot open.'); foreach($dbreco rd as $customer) { $string = 'Name: ' . $customer['name'] . "\r\n"; $string .= 'Address: ' . $customer['address'] . "\r\n"; // ... $string .= "\x0C\r\n"; ## \x0C is the "form-feed" character if (!fwrite($txt_f ile, $string)) die("Unable to write to textfile.txt"); } fclose($txt_fil e); ?>
But I have no idea how ms word will interpret the form-feed character. HTH
Thanks Pedro, I'll try it today! :-) I will let you know how it works out for me.
- Eric
*** Garp wrote/escribió (Thu, 20 May 2004 19:32:58 GMT): Mmm, go here: http://www.programmershelp.co.uk/phpcreateword.php
Please note that you must be running PHP in a Windows server with MS Office
installed for this to work.
As for the PDF option, you have a number of libraries. A free one is: http://www.fpdf.org/
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