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what to look for

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 7:23 am
by techker
hey there im looking for 2 scripts can somebody point me in the right direction please?

the first is in need to be able to merge pdf files on line directly.see im doing a web site for a distribiter and he hase loots of price lists.

i nee to list the price lists and he can chose what ever one he wants and merge it in to one file?

i have that systeme at work on are internal web site,when i need planogrames i chose the ones i want and it merges them in one pdf to print.


the ohter,like i said he hase lots of price lists,and all of them are excel sheets.i do not want to updates does sheest every week,i want to make an uploader for him to upload his excel sheets,but i need does sheets to be converted to pdf so i can do the above fuction(merge)

i have a linux shared hosting server.

thx guys.

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 7:46 am
by superdezign
Well, if he uploads the excel sheets in comma-separated-format (I don't have Microsoft Excel, but I'm pretty sure it has the capability), then you could simply store all of it in a database or text file of some sort, then create it into a pdf.

The only pdf creation utilities that I've seen require you to do it manually, but I'm sure there's something. The only thing I've seen was on SourceForge. Maybe you should give it a look.

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 7:51 am
by techker
superdezign wrote:Well, if he uploads the excel sheets in comma-separated-format (I don't have Microsoft Excel, but I'm pretty sure it has the capability), then you could simply store all of it in a database or text file of some sort, then create it into a pdf.

The only pdf creation utilities that I've seen require you to do it manually, but I'm sure there's something. The only thing I've seen was on SourceForge. Maybe you should give it a look.

well it is not a pdf creation ,it is juste merging?

as for the conversion im going to have a hard time with that..lol

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 9:27 am
by feyd
fpdf and ezpdf are both excellent pdf generation libraries. Normally I generate the entire PDF from scratch in memory using ezpdf. It's not as tedious as one may think.