[FX.php List] Creating a PDF label and show on a web page

[John Funk]

Thanks for the tips, I found html barcodes by Mark Ryan at:
http://phpclasses.elib.com/browse/package/3603.html, a php class for making
barcodes. Seems to work good.
John


On 6/25/09 4:01 PM, "Dale Bengston" <dbengston at tds.net> wrote:

> Hi John,
> 
> The easiest way to get GD is to go to entropy.ch and get Mark
> Liyanage's build of PHP and use it instead of the default one. It
> works great, and includes GD, among many other things.
> 
> Now, back to FPDF, which is also what I use to create PDF from PHP.
> FPDF is great for doing this, and very precise. Also, there is an
> extension for FPDF called FPDI that allows you to open a pre-made PDF
> template, draw data on it with FPDF and save it out. It's double cool.
> 
> FPDF allows you to place graphics, which is how I'd handle the bar
> codes. You could use other PHP graphics creators (like the one Steve W
> recommended) to save your bar codes as image files and place them with
> FPDF.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Dale
> 
> 
> 
>   --
> Dale Bengston
> Streamline Studio, LLC
> www.streamline-studio.com
> 
> 
> On Jun 25, 2009, at 1:33 PM, John Funk wrote:
> 
>> The barcode number will be in the database but the forms created in
>> FileMaker will not be used for the same purpose as the html forms.
>> Thanks for the lookout..
>> 
>> 
>> On 6/25/09 1:17 PM, "Joel Shapiro" <jsfmp at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi John
>>> 
>>> Just a thought:
>>> If you plan to have barcodes in the database, they could be different
>>> than the barcodes generated by this PHP script, so you'd probably
>>> want to check on that.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> -Joel
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jun 25, 2009, at 11:00 AM, John Funk wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I like this idea, any tips on how to use to shorten my learning
>>>> curve?
>>>> It looks like I put the barcode.php in my site folder and in the
>>>> html of my label place the barcode like an image but use <IMG
>>>> SRC="barcode.php?barcode=HELLO&quality=75"> wth parameters?
>>>> Seems simple enough.....
>>>> Could I put barcode.php in my includes folder?
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> John Funk
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 6/25/09 12:36 PM, "Steve Winter" <steve at bluecrocodile.co.nz>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> The other thing which you could look at is a bar-code image
>>>>> creation class (like http://www.sid6581.net/cs/php-scripts/
>>>>> barcode/ pretty old now, but still works really well ;-) and then
>>>>> simply generate the label in pure HTML rather than using a pdf at
>>>>> all...
>>>> 
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