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Printable Document Generation with PHP

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Written by Chetankumar Akarte

Tuesday, 13 March 2007

Article Index
Printable Document Generation with PHP
Advantages of RFT Format
1. Generate Template
2. Open template in PHP
3. Modifying contents
4. Save Document
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Modifying contents

Here we just replace all the placeholders in our template file and generate our modified output file as ‘output.rtf’. for that purpose we are using function modifier($vars, $doc_file).This function takes two parameters the first, $vars, is an array of key/value pairs representing the placeholder and value for that placeholder. The second parameter, $doc_file, represents the template file to populate.

(Code 1:- test.php)

<?php
$vars = array('date' => date("F d, Y"),
'place' => 'Nagpur',
'name' => 'Flint Hancock',
'language' => 'PHP',
'grade' => 'A', );
$new_rtf = modifier($vars, "certificate.rtf");
$fr = fopen('output.rtf', 'w') ;
fwrite($fr, $new_rtf);
fclose($fr);

function modifier($vars, $rftfile) {

$xchange = array ('\\' => "\\\\",
'{' => "\{",
'}' => "\}");

$document = file_get_contents($rftfile);
if(!$document) {
return false;
}

foreach($vars as $key=>$value) {
$search = "%%".strtoupper($key)."%%";

foreach($xchange as $orig => $replace) {
$value = str_replace($orig, $replace, $value);
}
$document = str_replace($search, $value, $document);
}
return $document;
}
?>
<h2>sucessfully Generated File</h2>