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Edit File: starter_table.php

<?php
/* $Id: starter_table.php,v 1.7 2006/10/02 21:11:38 tm Exp $
 *
 * Table starter:
 * Create table which may span multiple pages
 *
 * required software: PDFlib/PDFlib+PDI/PPS 7
 * required data: image file (dummy text created within the program)
 */

/* This is where the data files are. Adjust as necessary. */
$searchpath = "../data";
$imagefile = "nesrin.jpg";
$outfilename = "starter_table.pdf";

$tf=0; $tbl=0;
$rowmax = 50; $colmax = 5;
$llx= 50; $lly=50; $urx=550; $ury=800;

$headertext = "Table header (centered across all columns)";

/* Dummy text for filling a cell with multi-line Textflow */
$tf_text = 
"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adi&shy;pi&shy;sicing elit, sed do eius&shy;mod tempor incidi&shy;dunt ut labore et dolore magna ali&shy;qua. Ut enim ad minim ve&shy;niam, quis nostrud exer&shy;citation ull&shy;amco la&shy;bo&shy;ris nisi ut ali&shy;quip ex ea commodo con&shy;sequat. Duis aute irure dolor in repre&shy;henderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pari&shy;atur. Excep&shy;teur sint occae&shy;cat cupi&shy;datat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia dese&shy;runt mollit anim id est laborum. ";

$p = PDF_new();

# This means we must check return values of load_font() etc.
PDF_set_parameter($p, "errorpolicy", "return");

PDF_set_parameter($p, "SearchPath", $searchpath);

/* we use "utf8" as textformat, this allows to use unicode encoding */
PDF_set_parameter($p, "textformat", "utf8");

if (PDF_begin_document($p, $outfilename, "") == 0) {
    die("Error: " . PDF_get_errmsg($p));
}

PDF_set_info($p, "Creator", "PDFlib starter sample");
PDF_set_info($p, "Title", "starter_table");

/* -------------------- Add table cells -------------------- */

/* ---------- row 1: table header (spans all columns) */
$row = 1; $col = 1;
$font = PDF_load_font($p, "Times-Bold", "unicode", "");
if ($font == 0) {
    die("Error: " . PDF_get_errmsg($p));
}

$optlist = "fittextline={position=center font=" . $font . " fontsize=14} " .
"colspan=" . $colmax;

$tbl = PDF_add_table_cell($p, $tbl, $col, $row, $headertext, $optlist);
if ($tbl == 0) {
    die("Error: " . PDF_get_errmsg($p));
}

/* ---------- row 2: various kinds of content */
/* ----- Simple text cell */
$row++; $col=1;

$optlist = "fittextline={font=" . $font . " fontsize=10 orientate=west}";

$tbl = PDF_add_table_cell($p, $tbl, $col, $row, "vertical line", $optlist);
if ($tbl == 0) {
    die("Error: " . PDF_get_errmsg($p));
}

/* ----- Colorized background */
$col++;

$optlist = "fittextline={font=" . $font . " fontsize=10} " .
"matchbox={fillcolor={rgb 0.9 0.5 0}}";

$tbl = PDF_add_table_cell($p, $tbl, $col, $row, "some color", $optlist);
if ($tbl == 0) {
    die("Error: " . PDF_get_errmsg($p));
}

/* ----- Multi-line text with Textflow */
$col++;
$font = PDF_load_font($p, "Times-Roman", "unicode", "");
if ($font == 0) {
    die("Error: " . PDF_get_errmsg($p));
}

$optlist = "charref fontname=Times-Roman encoding=unicode fontsize=8 ";

$tf = PDF_add_textflow($p, $tf, $tf_text, $optlist);
if ($tf == 0) {
    die("Error: " . PDF_get_errmsg($p));
}

$optlist = "margin=2 textflow=" . $tf;

$tbl = PDF_add_table_cell($p, $tbl, $col, $row, "", $optlist);
if ($tbl == 0) {
    die("Error: " . PDF_get_errmsg($p));
}

/* ----- Rotated $image */
$col++;

$image = PDF_load_image($p, "auto", $imagefile, "");
if ($image == 0) {
    die("Couldn't load $image: " . PDF_get_errmsg($p));
}

$optlist = "image=" . $image . " fitimage={orientate=west}";

$tbl = PDF_add_table_cell($p, $tbl, $col, $row, "", $optlist);
if ($tbl == 0) {
    die("Error: " . PDF_get_errmsg($p));
}

/* ----- Diagonal stamp */
$col++;

$optlist = "fittextline={font=" . $font . " fontsize=10 stamp=ll2ur}";

$tbl = PDF_add_table_cell($p, $tbl, $col, $row, "entry void", $optlist);
if ($tbl == 0) {
    die("Error: " . PDF_get_errmsg($p));
}

/* ---------- Fill $row 3 and above with their numbers */
for ($row++; $row <= $rowmax; $row++) {
    for ($col = 1; $col <= $colmax; $col++) {
	$num = "Col " . $col . "/Row " . $row;
	$optlist = "colwidth=20% fittextline={font=" . $font . " fontsize=10}";
	$tbl = PDF_add_table_cell($p, $tbl, $col, $row, $num, $optlist);
	if ($tbl == 0) {
	    die("Error: " . PDF_get_errmsg($p));
	}
    }
}

/* ---------- Place the table on one or more pages ---------- */

/*
 * Loop until all of the table is placed; create new pages
 * as long as more table instances need to be placed.
 */
do {
    PDF_begin_page_ext($p, 0, 0, "width=a4.width height=a4.height");

/* Shade every other $row; draw lines for all table cells.
     * Add "showcells showborder" to visualize cell borders 
     */
    $optlist = "header=1 fill={{area=rowodd fillcolor={gray 0.9}}} " .
    "stroke={{line=other}} ";

/* Place the table instance */
    $result = PDF_fit_table($p, $tbl, $llx, $lly, $urx, $ury, $optlist);
    if ($result ==  "_error") {
	die("Couldn't place table: " . PDF_get_errmsg($p));
    }

PDF_end_page_ext($p, "");

} while ($result == "_boxfull");

/* Check the $result; "_stop" means all is ok. */
if ($result != "_stop") {
    if ($result ==  "_error") {
	die("Error when placing table: " . PDF_get_errmsg($p));
    } else {
	/* Any other return value is a user exit caused by
	 * the "return" option; this requires dedicated code to
	 * deal with.
	 */
	die("User return found in Textflow");
    }
}

/* This will also delete Textflow handles used in the table */
PDF_delete_table($p, $tbl, "");

PDF_end_document($p, "");

PDF_delete($p);

print "$outfilename generated";
?>