Working on my current project, which as my boss says ‘confidential’…, i came across a requirement where i’ve 2 generate PDF files on the fly. Say, the user enters his details, and in return, a pdf file should se sent back…which one can save, print or whatever.
ZEND, as i believe already has a PHP library. but its quite primitive in stage. Then did i find this open source library TCPDF. This works in PHP. The latest version of TCPDF is 5.0 . It has a wide spectrum of functionality like :
- no external libraries are required for the basic functions;
- supports all ISO page formats;
- supports UTF-8 Unicode and Right-To-Left languages;
- supports document encryption;
- includes methods to publish some HTML code;
- includes graphic and transformation methods;
- includes bookmarks;
- includes Javascript and forms support;
- includes a method to print various barcode formats;
- supports TrueTypeUnicode, TrueType, Type1 and encoding;
- supports custom page formats, margins and units of measure;
- includes methods for page header and footer management;
- supports automatic page break;
- supports automatic page numbering and page groups;
- supports automatic line break and text justification;
- supports JPEG and PNG images whitout GD library and all images supported by GD: GD, GD2, GD2PART, GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, XBM, XPM;
- supports stroke and clipping mode for text;
- supports Grayscale, RGB and CMYK colors and transparency;
- supports links;
- supports page compression (requires zlib extension);
- supports user rights management so Adobe Reader users can save filled-in copies of forms they complete.
Definitely, this is a cool library for those who love to do hard-core stuff with PHP. For, further study …
Here, go for the DOCS tab, for installation, examples and other stuff.
Here, u’ll have a clear description of each of the variable and method this library.
