PHP Form to output to MS WORD/Printable format

jya

I have a standard MS word document ( eg. standard letter ).

I want to create a php/html form, to get input on certain information such as name, address and date, ( data maybe fetch from Mysql database ), to generate a printable format which looks alike MS Word format.

What is the best way to achieve this ?

edcellgavin

it isn't the best way but you could try outputting a pdf document...

Drakla

Create an .rtf version of the document and put in tags that can be replaced like:

My name is {NAME} leaving space for appropriate content. Save it, then use string replace to replace the tags

$row['dateissue'] = date('jS F y');

$row['userid']	= $userid;
$row['datepay'] = $_REQUEST['paydate'];
$row['clickid'] = $_REQUEST['clickid'];
$row['amount'] 	= $_REQUEST['amount'];

$rtf = file_get_contents('customer-invoice.rtf');

// beautifully lazy system of knocking rtf's break a word up over multiple lines
$rtf = str_replace("\r\n", '', $rtf);	// lines are broken /r/n on windows

foreach ($row as $tag => $value)
	$rtf = str_replace('\{'.$tag.'\}', $value, $rtf);

header('Content-type: application/rtf');
	# replace whatever you want the filename to default to
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=invoice-$row[clickid].rtf");
header('Pragma: no-cache');
header('Expires: 0');

echo $rtf;

exit;

EDIT: Forgot to say, in rtfs line breaks are '\par ' so if you've got multiline content write a nl2par function like [man]nl2br[/man]

jya

yes, the rtf solution solved my problem... thanks a lot.

About the pdf method, any source to refer ?