PHP and MySQL® Web Development, Fourth Edition

32 Generating Personalized PDF Documents

ON SERVICE-DRIVEN SITES, YOU SOMETIMES NEED TO deliver personalized documents, generated in response to input from your visitors. This input can be used to provide an automatically filled-in form or to generate personalized documents, such as legal documents, letters, or certificates.

The example in this chapter presents a user with an online skill assessment page and generates a certificate. We explain how to

  Use PHP string processing to integrate a template with a user’s data to create a Rich Text Format (RTF) document

  Use a similar approach to generate a Portable Document Format (PDF) document