Custom printing from web form data?

[Price, Erik]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Coutu [mailto:coutu at snowy-owl.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 8:57 AM
> To: Greater New Hampshire Linux Users
> Subject: Custom printing from web form data?
> 
> 
> What I'm trying to accomplish is to print certificates (to be 
> snail-mailed) 
> based on data collected from a form on a web site. I think it 
> would be most 
> efficient to print from a cron job using the data that had 
> been previously 
> collected and stored in a useful place, like a MySQL database.
> 
> The tricky part is that the certificates should look fairly 
> classy, which 
> means they can't be just plain ASCII text. They should 
> include graphic 
> elements such as your typical certificate border with the 
> fancy artwork. Of 
> course multiple colors are required too.

I'm not really knowledgeable about this, but PHP does offer
PDF-formatting functions.  Perhaps there's some way you could
create a template PDF and just change the things that you need
to change, and print that out...

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdf.php

Of course, I'm sure Perl has a module for this somewhere as well.


Erik