Actually, I'm building a "Marksheet Generation" application where you enter the marks of various students(like in excel) and then you get individual mark-sheets(summary of all the marks in all the subjects). However, I have a lots of questions for that.
First of all, I want to develop the report(mark-sheet) as an image(any format). What I've done actually is, in a page, you get to choose a student and then after following the student's link, you go to another page where you have all his info and marks retrieved from the database. So, I've used HTML for building the report card and it works perfectly fine. But I want the report to be as an image. So, is there any way I can do that?
The next thing is I need to print the report(mark-sheet) and I can't figure out a way to print the entire page(that's why I want the report to be an image
Another thing bothering me is, I need to mass-print the reports(for example, print all the reports of a particular school/class) So is there something like batch-processing to do that? I mean to print all the reports after one command!
The next thing is can users use the same application to enter data from multiple computers? I mean, for example this is the server where the application is hosted(I use wamp by the way) and all the client computers are connected to this one. So, can the software be used remotely(from another computer)? I've heard that for VB.NET and other platforms, you need to work to make that possible, but I suppose in PHP, you don't have to spare any more hard work to do that. Is that true? If that's true, won't there be some problem when more than one user is using the same database(and in fact the same table) to enter and access the data, something like a sharing violation? And, how can I prevent data redundancy in such cases?
So, these are some of the problems I'm getting and I expect help from you guys! Hope you people will help!
Hoping for some reply!