PDF Generation With PHP (
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One of the nice things about PHP has to be its support for a
wide variety of different technologies. And one of the most overlooked
extensions in PHP 4 is the PDFLib extension, which allows you to
dynamically construct PDF documents through your PHP scripts. Find out
more, inside.One of the reasons I like PHP so much is its consistent support for new
technologies. The language invites extensibility, making it easy for developers
to add new modules to the core engine, and widespread community support has made
PHP one of the most full-featured Web programming languages around, with support
for a wide variety of modular extensions. Extensions available today allow
developers to use PHP to perform IMAP and POP3 operations; dynamically
constructs images and Shockwave Flash movies; perform credit card validation;
encrypt sensitive data; and parse XML-encoded data.
This isn't all,
though. One of the more interesting items currently being bundled with PHP is
the PDFLib extension, which allows developers to dynamically generate documents
in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Over the next few pages, I'm going to
take a quick look at this module, providing you with a brief overview of its
functions and demonstrating how you can use it in your PHP development. So come
on it, and let's get going!
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