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Re: [PHP] Batch processing & HTML2PS
by Jason Wong other posts by this author
May 2 2002 7:37PM messages near this date
Re: [PHP] Batch processing & HTML2PS | Re: [PHP] Batch processing & HTML2PS
On Friday 03 May 2002 02:05, Mrdini wrote:
>  Hi,
> 
>  I'm currently working on a warehouse system, and I'd like to print some
>  labels pretty accurately.
> 
>  At the moment, I'm using Mozilla to print, but this just won't do,
>  especially not when we're expecting to print something like 4,000 labels
>  next week :D
> 
>  $client is the MySQL record where the client information is stored.
>  $copies is the number of copies.
> 
>  So, what I was thinking was to go :-
> 
>  User selects number of copies to print & the client number.
>  Give HTML2ps the PHP URL with all the info stored in the URL (form POST
>  IIRC).

I think using the PDF functions would be a much better solution. You have 
full control over what gets printed where. Search on sourceforge for wrapper 
classes which make the PDF functions easier to use.

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