Pdf?
 

So many websites have downloadable pdf articles from their news articles or something like that am I curious if there is a way to take data from a MySQL database and insert it into one.

For example, on a project I am making i have a page called 'servers.php' i am curious if there is a way to make a folder called /pdf/ for when the user clicks download it takes them to a page like '/pdf/servers.pdf'

Thanks,
Randy

Hi Randy,

Yes indeed this is possible, check out PHP's PDF extension: http://us.php.net/manual/en/book.pdf.php.

You might also check out iText http://www.lowagie.com/iText/. You can use it to do things like modify PDFs in real-time (for instance to add a watermark).

Hope this helps!
Jason

I do not think we should create a pdf file, we just put pdf file in /pdf/, then get access to it, it will download automatically.

Unless you have a specific reason for dynamically generating a PDF, it is probably a good idea not to do it unless you have some sort of caching function. Generating things like this are intense on the server, especially when done in large volumes. I would advise doing what you need to do to each PDF, storing them then linking them in a database opposed to dynamically generating the content each time.