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 Aug 28 2007, 09:12 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 33 Joined: 27-February 06 Member No.: 89274 
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I want to do two things on my web site but I really can't find the correct information.
I want to create certificates (like a swimming certificate) on my site that users can add certain details i.e. name and type of award. these could be printed or emailed I would also like to enable sms messaging, that the user would have to pay for through the site. thanks |
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Aug 28 2007, 10:33 AM
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MSFN Master  Group: Software Developers Posts: 2395 Joined: 14-August 04 From: Joliette, QC Member No.: 27580 OS: XP Pro x86 
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Both of those things require advanced programming knowledge. Are you sure you're up to it?
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Aug 30 2007, 07:20 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 33 Joined: 27-February 06 Member No.: 89274
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To be truthful I'm not sure, but I'm not crap with computers I can program in machine code and 6502 and I have worked my way around php when I have needed to, for what its worth and I have been in IT as a systems manager since 1996 so I can learn if needed.
I just don't seem to able to find out where to start I have been searching for two weeks with no real pointers on how to go about this |
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 Aug 30 2007, 11:50 AM
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Nerd-in-Chief  Group: Members Posts: 1077 Joined: 25-February 07 From: Somewhere Member No.: 128497 OS: Server 2008 x86 
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Well, the certificates wouldn't be that hard, I don't think. What you could do is make an image with photoshop as a template, have all the borders and whatever images you want and all that on it, but leave the name, date, etc. blank. Then, have a form where they enter their name and everything, and then submit it to a page that would overlay those data over the image, using CSS positioning, and PHP to insert the data. If there are only a few things you are submitting in the form, I'd use method="get", so that they can bookmark their award and come back to it later and have everything there. Then, they could just print that page. For example:
form.php is the form. award.php is the award. template.png is the template image. form.php: CODE <html> <head> <title>Form</title> </head> <body> <form method="get" action="award.php"> Name: <input type="text" id="name" name="name" /><br /> Level: <input type="text" id="level" name="level" /><br /> <input type="submit" value="Make my Award" id="submit" name="submit" /> </form> </body> </html> award.php: CODE <head> <title>Award</title> </head> <body> <img src="template.png" width="(whatever)" height="(whatever)" alt="Award" /> <div style="position: absolute; left: 110px; right: 130px; width: 300px; height: 200px; top: 400px; border: none;"> <?php echo $_GET["name"] ?> </div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 110px; right: 130px; width: 300px; height: 200px; top: 460px; border: none;"> <?php echo $_GET["level"] ?> </div> </body> </html> Of course, that is just an example; you'd have to customize it to how you want it, but this should give you an idea. You may want to provide a button to print, in which case you'll want a seperate stylesheet for printing which would hide that element. Good luck, I hope this helps!!  And no, I don't know about your second question. |
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Oct 25 2007, 11:46 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 12 Joined: 23-October 07 Member No.: 159368 OS: XP Pro x86 
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For printed stuff like certificates isn't it better to use a pdf document? Look at http://se.php.net/pdf
You can create a pdf template and fill the user info with php... As for the secound question take a look at http://www.codewalkers.com/c/a/Miscellaneo...-SMS-Thru-HTTP/ |
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Oct 26 2007, 02:32 PM
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Nerd-in-Chief Group: Members Posts: 1077 Joined: 25-February 07 From: Somewhere Member No.: 128497 OS: Server 2008 x86
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QUOTE (kacper @ Oct 25 2007, 10:46 AM)  For printed stuff like certificates isn't it better to use a pdf document? Look at http://se.php.net/pdf You can create a pdf template and fill the user info with php... As for the secound question take a look at http://www.codewalkers.com/c/a/Miscellaneo...-SMS-Thru-HTTP/ Good point... you could have them download a PDF with the necessary for fields and print it out. |
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Oct 28 2007, 11:38 PM
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I'm a few hundred PCs  Group: Super Moderator Posts: 1172 Joined: 13-October 07 From: Oklahoma Member No.: 158212 OS: Vista Enterprise x86
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PHPs PDF Functions are not part of PHP and have to be installed (because their licensing conflicts with php) so getting your host to install them isnt easy
I personally use http://html2fpdf.sourceforge.net/ the documentation sucks but basically you just add a header and a footer to your existing php code that makes the page into a pdf file |
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