Printable membership card with name prefilled

[josh99smith]

I am building a simple site for a client who wants their customers to be able to pay a membership fee online and then be able to print there membership card with their name pre-filled on the card. (similar to when you sign up for car insurance online and your membership cards are generated instantly)

What would be the best route for achieving this? The only information that needs to be pre-filled on the card is their name.

[NogDog]

One way would be to generate the output as a PDF document. If you go that route, there are at least a couple PDF generation PHP modules out there, such as FPDF and TCPDF you could take a look at.

Alternatively, you could just output it as HTML, and make use of CSS media types to control the printing. (I'd probably favor this unless you need the precise sizing control that a PDF would probably be better at.)