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

[John Funk]

Yes I did see the the limits, I will have to think twice. The system I am
writing is for one particular customer but will be distributed eventually. I
do not want to have a system implementation nightmare, the installs need to
be neat and tidy including the web services. For now I cannot use a Mac
server (Apache). Is there and easy (for a non windows expert like me) way to
install GD on iis?


On 6/26/09 1:59 AM, "Steve Winter" <steve at bluecrocodile.co.nz> wrote:

> Hi John,
> 
> Looks a nice option... I do note that it says in the read-me that it's only
> been tested for IE6, which likely means that when you try and use it in
> 'proper' browsers that it won't quite display correctly so you might have to
> do a bit of mucking about to get it cross-browser compatible... (hence the
> advantage of the GD/image based class I was suggesting, since it generates an
> image which you can embed within HTML, but which will always display the same
> (admittedly it won't display at all if the user has images turned off ;-)
> 
> Best wishes
> Steve
> 
> On 26 Jun 2009, at 02:47, John Funk wrote:
> 
>> 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 <http://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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