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[Mr. Matt]

Well you have unserialized the cookie which is leaving you an array of values. So you will need to convert your words into a format that can be accepted by the pdf creator, if you want a comment seperated string of the words, then do:

$words = unserialize( $_COOKIE['cookie1'] );
$words = implode( ', ', $words );

So when you do:

$pdf->addText(30,$y,$size,$words);

It $words would be equal to somthing like: word1, word2, word3, word4.....word19, word20

Which should fix it for you (depending on how the PDF creating class works)

Matt

[°•Guru•°]

Great Thanks i've got the 20 words into the pdf now...now i just gotta figure out how to properly format this thing into a table and place the table of my bg image and DONE Hopefully soon Thanks

I'll post back if i'm having troubles thanks peeps!

OK one last problem...really confusing...here is some demo text from the readme doc for the class.

This code creates a simple 3 column table:

<?php
include ('class.ezpdf.php');
$pdf =& new Cezpdf();
$pdf->selectFont('./fonts/Helvetica.afm');
$data = array(
array('num'=>1,'name'=>'gandalf','type'=>'wizard')
,array('num'=>2,'name'=>'bilbo','type'=>'hobbit','url'=>'http://www.ros.co.
nz/pdf/')
,array('num'=>3,'name'=>'frodo','type'=>'hobbit')
,array('num'=>4,'name'=>'saruman','type'=>'bad
dude','url'=>'http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdf-php')
,array('num'=>5,'name'=>'sauron','type'=>'really bad dude')
);
$pdf->ezTable($data);
$pdf->ezStream();
?>

i currently have my words into a array called $data now...so atm what i am trying to achieve is to get a table with no headings just the words into the pdf....the table i am trying to create is 4 columns by 5 rows. Any ideas on how...i can send over the readme or whatever...sorry it's just really confusing to get the database $data array into the table.

There is not much help available for this class as it was made about 4 years ago a LONG time ago.

Cheers

ok an update i have the words in a table into the pdf document yay...only 1 thing formatting the table and setting a y position is a pain!!!....still trying to figure it out i think this problem will hurt the most as its the last before i'll be finished yay

Edited by rc69, 01 June 2007 - 02:16 PM.

[°•Guru•°]

Hi all,

My Problem is that i can't get my array $txt to appear in the table i have split this into $chunks and i still can't manage to get it into the table cells....i want to have 1 word per cell and there is 20 words...Anyways here is my code:

<?php

if (!isset($words) || strlen($words)==0){
//$demotext='demo text';

$txt = explode( ',', $_COOKIE['cookie1'] );
$txt = implode( ',', $txt );


$string = $txt;
$chunks = spliti (",", $string, 20);
//print_r($chunks);

//$data = explode( ',', $data );
//$txt = array($txt);

//$words = unserialize( $_COOKIE['cookie1'] );
//print $_COOKIE['cookie1'];

//print $txt;
}

//require('fpdf.php');
require('html_table.php');

$html='<table border="1">
<tr>
<td width="190" height="125" align="center">cell 1</td><td width="190" height="125" >cell 2</td><td width="190" height="125" >cell 2</td><td width="190" height="125" >cell 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="190" height="125" >cell 3</td><td width="190" height="125" >cell 4</td><td width="190" height="125" >cell 2</td><td width="190" height="125" >cell 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="190" height="125" >cell 3</td><td width="190" height="125" >cell 4</td><td width="190" height="125" >cell 2</td><td width="190" height="125" >cell 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="190" height="125" >cell 3</td><td width="190" height="125" >cell 4</td><td width="190" height="125" >cell 2</td><td width="190" height="125" >cell 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="190" height="125" >cell 3</td><td width="190" height="125" >cell 4</td><td width="190" height="125" >cell 2</td><td width="190" height="125" >cell 2</td>
</tr>
</table>';

$pdf=new PDF();
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->SetFont('Arial','B',16);
$pdf->Image('pdfbg.jpg',0.4,0.3,0,0);
$pdf->SetY(148);
$pdf->WriteHTML($html);
$pdf->Text(40,160,$txt);
$pdf->Output();
?>

Thanks in advance
Hope someone can help

Cheers

[Mr. Matt]

The quickest, but no means best way to be doing it:

<?php

$words = explode( ',', $_COOKIE['cookie1'] );

//require('fpdf.php');
require('html_table.php');

$html = '<table border="1">
	<tr>
		<td width="190" height="125">'.$words[0].'</td>
		<td width="190" height="125">'.$words[1].'</td>
		<td width="190" height="125">'.$words[2].'</td>
		<td width="190" height="125">'.$words[3].'</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td width="190" height="125">'.$words[4].'</td>
		<td width="190" height="125">'.$words[5].'</td>
		<td width="190" height="125">'.$words[6].'</td>
		<td width="190" height="125">'.$words[7].'</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td width="190" height="125">'.$words[8].'</td>
		<td width="190" height="125">'.$words[9].'</td>
		<td width="190" height="125">'.$words[10].'</td>
		<td width="190" height="125">'.$words[11].'</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td width="190" height="125">'.$words[12].'</td>
		<td width="190" height="125">'.$words[13].'</td>
		<td width="190" height="125">'.$words[14].'</td>
		<td width="190" height="125">'.$words[15].'</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td width="190" height="125">'.$words[16].'</td>
		<td width="190" height="125">'.$words[17].'</td>
		<td width="190" height="125">'.$words[18].'</td>
		<td width="190" height="125">'.$words[19].'</td>
	</tr>
</table>';

$pdf=new PDF();
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->SetFont('Arial','B',16);
$pdf->Image('pdfbg.jpg',0.4,0.3,0,0);
$pdf->SetY(148);
$pdf->WriteHTML($html);
$pdf->Text(40,160,$txt);
$pdf->Output();

?>

[Demonslay]

Wow, odd, Matt is usually the one who has all of the table row loops in his code, lol.

Here's a dynamic version that I bet Matt was just feeling too lazy to make at the time (don't blame him).
[codebox]<?php

$words = explode( ',', $_COOKIE['cookie1'] );

//require('fpdf.php');
require('html_table.php');

$columns = 4;
$word_count = count($words);

$html = '<table border="1">';

for($i = 0, $c = 1; $i < $word_count; $i++){
if($c == 1) $html .= "\n\t<tr>";
$html .= "\n\t\t".'<td width="190" height="125">'.$i.': '.$words[$i].'</td>';
if($c == $columns){
$html .= "\n\t</tr>";
$c = 1;
}
else
$c++;
}

$html .= "\n</table>";

$pdf=new PDF();
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->SetFont('Arial','B',16);
$pdf->Image('pdfbg.jpg',0.4,0.3,0,0);
$pdf->SetY(148);
$pdf->WriteHTML($html);
$pdf->Text(40,160,$txt);
$pdf->Output();

?>[/codebox]

Tested myself (other than the PDF construction bit of course), should work just fine for you.

[Mr. Matt]

Yea I really couldn't be bothered, just did the easier option

[rc69]

Matt, you also forgot, "please stick to one topic." And remember, the edit feature is there for a reason Guru.

$c = 1;
  }
  else
	$c++;

Demonslay, C++ is a language, not something to be used in PHP! (i'm joking btw).

Edited by rc69, 01 June 2007 - 02:16 PM.

[°•Guru•°]

Cheers guys that's worked fine now

Thanks heaps for all the help ppl