leo.bonnafe

Hello group

I have just come across a new project that allows you to generate PDF, DOCX and DOC files with PHP.

All you have to do, is create a template in Open Office (or Word). In the template, you create the layout of the document and insert a number of text fields. These text fields are then populated with data from PHP and the document can be saved as a PDF file or in any other supported format. The concept is good old "mail-merge".

Brief introduction to phpLiveDocx

From the web sites' blurb: "phpLiveDocx allows developers to generate documents by combining structured data from PHP with a template, created in a word processor. The resulting document can be saved as a PDF, DOCX, DOC or RTF file."

I am currently adding phpLiveDocx to an online store I am working on. The customer wants his store to create an invoice and sent it by e-mail as a PDF attachment. The invoice should use the same template file that is used in the internal accounting software (which is a DOC file).

phpLiveDocx works well and it is much easier to get good results than with FPDF, TCPDF or Zend_Pdf.

Download here:

phpLiveDocx Downloads

Have fun :-)

Leo