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**DavidAllen** · #1 (**permalink**) 16-10-2007, 22:30

Hi - does any one have any experience or suggestions of how to create a pdf file using php. I am doing an e-commerce website for a company and they want a downloadable pdf of all their stock. I've got a php utility that creates rtf files - so I could use that nad download the rtf file and print that to pdf and then upload it - but I'm sure there is an easier way.

**eUKhost.com** · #2 (**permalink**) 16-10-2007, 22:51

have you tried digitaljunkies.ca/dompdf/ or weberdev.com/get_example-4023.html ?

**Jack** · #3 (**permalink**) 17-10-2007, 06:52

Refer to this articles

1. sitepoint.com/article/generate-pdfs-php

2.devarticles.com/c/a/PHP/Use-PHP-to-Create-Dynamic-pdf-Files/

Hope this helps you

**DavidAllen** · #4 (**permalink**) 17-10-2007, 10:00

Thanks for the suggestions Jack and Mark

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Originally Posted by eUKhost.com

have you tried http://www.digitaljunkies.ca/dompdf/ or http://www.weberdev.com/get_example-4023.html ?

The dompdf one looks good - I waded through all the documentation on their website and was about to roll my sleeves up and get stuck in - when i noticed that it only works with php5. A quick check and yep - yorkshire (my server) is still running php4.4.6 - any plans to go to php 5 anytime soon (yesterday

)

**eUKhost.com** · #5 (**permalink**) 17-10-2007, 12:33

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Originally Posted by DavidAllen

Thanks for the suggestions Jack and Mark

The dompdf one looks good - I waded through all the documentation on their website and was about to roll my sleeves up and get stuck in - when i noticed that it only works with php5. A quick check and yep - yorkshire (my server) is still running php4.4.6 - any plans to go to php 5 anytime soon (yesterday

)

upgrading php version on servers with php4 wont be possible as of now as many customers will be upset with this sort of change. We can migrate your account on other server running php 5.1.2 and there wont be any downtime in migration process.

let me know if you feel comfortable to move on a different server.

**DavidAllen** · #6 (**permalink**) 17-10-2007, 12:46

Thanks Mark - this is one of my accounts under my reseller hosting - will I have to move the whole lot to the new server or can just the one be done (and if so - how does that work for creatinmg new ones etc)
Regards
David

**eUKhost.com** · #7 (**permalink**) 17-10-2007, 13:08

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Originally Posted by DavidAllen

Thanks Mark - this is one of my accounts under my reseller hosting - will I have to move the whole lot to the new server or can just the one be done (and if so - how does that work for creatinmg new ones etc)
Regards
David

I can get a single account moved for you. open a ticket in support department and let me know the ticket number.

**DavidAllen** · #8 (**permalink**) 17-10-2007, 16:54

I've created a ticket #GHU-43972-853
Thanks for your help Mark

**eUKhost.com** · #9 (**permalink**) 17-10-2007, 21:35

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Originally Posted by DavidAllen

I've created a ticket #GHU-43972-853
Thanks for your help Mark

Adam seems to have sorted it. Good to see it getting sorted quickly

**DavidAllen** · #10 (**permalink**) 17-10-2007, 21:38

Not only did Adam sort it - he even included the parked domains and the redirect that I had forgotten to mention - what service

Thanks

Ps the server appears a bit quicker - is it a higher spec one??

**eUKhost.com** · #11 (**permalink**) 17-10-2007, 22:41

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Originally Posted by DavidAllen

Not only did Adam sort it - he even included the parked domains and the redirect that I had forgotten to mention - what service

Thanks

Ps the server appears a bit quicker - is it a higher spec one??

Yeah. Q6600

**swexpert** · #12 (**permalink**) 19-10-2007, 22:00

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Originally Posted by eUKhost.com

upgrading php version on servers with php4 wont be possible as of now as many customers will be upset with this sort of change. We can migrate your account on other server running php 5.1.2 and there wont be any downtime in migration process.

let me know if you feel comfortable to move on a different server.

Won't it be a better solution to install PHP5 but assign .php5 to php5?

Regds
IJ

**swexpert** · #13 (**permalink**) 19-10-2007, 22:03

Oh I am late....

Lol just saw your signatures Mark, i hope you're not pointing to some hosting company

**eUKhost.com** · #14 (**permalink**) 19-10-2007, 23:51

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Originally Posted by swexpert

Oh I am late....

Lol just saw your signatures Mark, i hope you're not pointing to some hosting company

haha. not really but thats a fact with some other hosting companies.

You can never blame staff as staff is same everywhere but its the leader who drives them in right direction. Over here customers praise our support staff in Testimonials section but they never manage to figure out who all are involved in keeping things perfect

**eUKhost.com** · #15 (**permalink**) 19-10-2007, 23:55

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Originally Posted by swexpert

Won't it be a better solution to install PHP5 but assign .php5 to php5?

Regds
IJ

This was done previously but you need to compile php manually to achieve this and you loose easyapache option in this case.

You need to disable cPanel automatic updates as well as most of the times cpanel updates break your apache configuration if you run php4 as well as php5.

Without Easyapache it becomes quite difficult for junior support staff to work on technical support tickets related to apache configuration.

**swexpert** · #16 (**permalink**) 20-10-2007, 12:40

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Originally Posted by eUKhost.com

This was done previously but you need to compile php manually to achieve this and you loose easyapache option in this case.

You need to disable cPanel automatic updates as well as most of the times cpanel updates break your apache configuration if you run php4 as well as php5.

Without Easyapache it becomes quite difficult for junior support staff to work on technical support tickets related to apache configuration.

I agree, valid practical issues.

Regds
Inderjeet

**swexpert** · #17 (**permalink**) 20-10-2007, 12:49

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Originally Posted by eUKhost.com

haha. not really but thats a fact with some other hosting companies.

You can never blame staff as staff is same everywhere but its the leader who drives them in right direction. Over here customers praise our support staff in Testimonials section but they never manage to figure out who all are involved in keeping things perfect

Hello,
I'd beg to be different and I assume most (wise

) businesses go that way. I am here not because of staff tech individuals. I am here for the philosophy of the organization, which in my humble opinion, comes from the core/top management and is driven down to the gate-keeper of the building by the management. So we know it is (someone in) the management who is the backbone of the business or organization. I have customers since I was a one-man army more than a decade ago and they're with me because they know my philosophies and work culture. This work culture still exists and is the same when I have a few people wih me.

So Kudos to you and the rest of the team, not to name anyone in particular but everyone who makes the team a go getter.

Just wondering, since there are more than one lions here, no one fights?? Or maybe they drive their own respective herds of lambs

Regds
Inderjeet

PS: No offences intended for anyone, this is just a "talk".

**tiberiu** · #18 (**permalink**) 27-02-2008, 18:27

Let's not talk about lions, lions are quite funny sometimes because when they fight for a teritory both pretenders could get badly injured and a third younger lion takes the KING sit... this was an Animal Planet lesson: any similarity with the reality is pure coincidence...