Using PHP, I can convert MySQL data or static table data to csv, Excel, JSON, MySQL etc but is there a useful conversion script or tool that can convert table data into other formatted/styled formats such as PDF and/or JPG/PNG using the PHP GD Library or other?
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A:
I've used this before to turn a HTML table into a PDF. I generated the table from a MySQL query.
alex
2009-05-13 04:01:44
Looks like this has moved to http://code.google.com/p/dompdf/ and I'd be interested to see some examples similar to this but for images. There's a lot of "screenshot" software apps I guess works in the interim...
Peter
2009-05-13 04:17:23
Give yourself an hand - google for wkhtmltopdf
DaNieL
2009-05-14 15:40:53
A:
To export to Excel I use the following code:
<?php
/* Define our Database and Table Info */
$username="";
$password="";
$database="";
$table="";
mysql_connect(localhost,$username,$password);
@mysql_select_db($database) or die( "Unable to select database");
$select = "SELECT * FROM $table";
$export = mysql_query($select);
$fields = mysql_num_fields($export);
for ($i = 0; $i < $fields; $i++) {
$header .= mysql_field_name($export, $i) . "\t";
}
while($row = mysql_fetch_row($export)) {
$line = '';
foreach($row as $value) {
if ((!isset($value)) OR ($value == "")) {
$value = "\t";
} else {
$value = str_replace('"', '""', $value);
$value = '"' . $value . '"' . "\t";
}
$line .= $value;
}
$data .= trim($line)."\n";
}
$data = str_replace("\r","",$data);
if ($data == "") {
$data = "\n(0) Records Found!\n";
}
header("Content-type: application/x-msdownload");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=mailinglist.xls");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: 0");
print "$header\n$data";
?>
Now be careful with how you include this. It's using the Headers to send the file information to force a download, by doing this you can't have any white space anywhere before these headers are sent otherwise it may throw an error. I usually have this link open as a new window to prevent anything from happening... Again this is just a pretty basic script that can be expanded greatly. Hope this Helps!
stogdilla
2009-05-13 04:15:24
It could be useful to combine with a csv, xls converter of which I do have implementations, I'd like to add pdf and jpg to the mix also with a simple drop down or get variable posted to determine the output file format. Thanks for the info anyway.
Peter
2009-05-13 04:19:30
As far as PDF I normally end up using a library like: http://www.fpdf.org/ (FPDF) it's pretty easy to impliment and pretty simple to use. I know there is scripting to make JPEGs on the fly as well as flash but I haven't really experimented with them too much.
stogdilla
2009-05-13 04:41:30
A:
<?php
/ Define our Database and Table Info /
$username="";
$password="";
$database="";
$table="";
mysql_connect(localhost,$username,$password);
@mysql_select_db($database) or die( "Unable to select database");
$select = "SELECT * FROM $table";
$export = mysql_query($select);
$fields = mysql_num_fields($export);
for ($i = 0; $i < $fields; $i++) {
$header .= mysql_field_name($export, $i) . ",";
}
while($row = mysql_fetch_row($export)) {
$line = '';
foreach($row as $value) {
if ((!isset($value)) OR ($value == "")) {
$value = ",";
} else {
$value = str_replace('"', '""', $value);
$value = '"' . $value . '"' . ",";
}
$line .= $value;
}
$data .= trim($line)."n";
}
$data = str_replace("r","",$data);
if ($data == "") {
$data = "n(0) Records Found!n";
}
header("Content-type: application/x-msdownload");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=mailinglist.xls");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: 0");
print "$headern$data";
?>