Want your customer to save your article, product catalog, or just a document to PDF format? PDF is very easy document format because it's portable, they can print it anywhere.
By : hermawan
<?php
/*
* Save2PDF
* Author : Hermawan Haryanto
* License : GPL
* Create date : 04/12/2001
*/
//set something usefull information for your pdf document.
$author ="Hermawan Haryanto"; //author name (optional)
$title ="hermawan.com"; //title of the pdf page (optional)
$creator ="Hermawan Haryanto"; //creator (optional)
$subject ="News Article"; //Subject (optional)
//end set
//start info taken from the database ( i like mysql)
$headline="HEADLINE OF THE NEWS";
$reporter="Reporter";
$postdate="04/15/2001";
$article.="This is the sample article line 1 \n";
$article.="This is the sample article line 2 \n";
$article.="This is the sample article line 3 \n";
$article.="This is the sample article line 4 \n";
$article.="This is the sample article line 5 \n";
$article.="This is the sample article line 6 \n";
$article.="This is the sample article line 7 \n";
$article.="This is the sample article line 8 \n";
//end database.
//merging all info to one text
$text.=$headline."\n";
$text.=$postdate."\n\n";
$text.=$article."\n";
$text.=$reporter;
//end merging
//start creating pdf on the fly
$pdf = PDF_open();
pdf_set_info_author($pdf, $author);
PDF_set_info_title($pdf, $title);
pdf_set_info_creator($pdf, $creator);
pdf_set_info_subject($pdf, $subject);
PDF_begin_page($pdf, 450, 450);
pdf_set_font($pdf, "Helvetica-Bold" , 12, winansi);
pdf_set_text_rendering($pdf, 0);
PDF_show_boxed($pdf, $text, 50, 100, 400, 300, "left");
pdf_stroke($pdf);
PDF_end_page($pdf);
PDF_close($pdf);
//end creating pdf
?>
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