PDF generation in PHP

[nightowl]

What are my possibilities to generate a PDF file in PHP?

I am aware of the possibility to use PDFLib and it's functions in PHP but AFAIK this solution is not free.

Another way I am aware of is to store my data in XML (write it there dynamically), use an XSL-FO stylesheet and generate a PDF file that way. This solution is free.

Are there other ways - no matter how weird to generate a PDF from PHP? Or just even without PHP (I could call via exec() any program which runs in Linux) ?

All I want to do is : generate a printable file (PDF) which is a list of data in my Postgres-database. As easy as possible 🙂

Thanks for any help!

[simulant]

There is AxisPHP which is a free PHP library you can use to generate PDFs. I haven't tried it out myself, but I plan on doing so very soon. Let me know what you come up with if you try it out. Here's the info:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/axisphp/?topic_id=809