syntaxseed,
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I've been working on a plugin for a client that generates custom PDF worksheet printouts for teachers. And it's turning out SO awesome that I'm basically high on coding satisfaction today. 😁

Not bad for my first plugin!

syntaxseed,
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It's using a library called TCPDF which requires pretty old-timey HTML & very limited so.... table layouts are back baby!!

😆

But I've managed to exactly match the manually created PDFs, so I'm pretty happy with it.

PJFDF,
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@syntaxseed me on the other hand also created some PDFs out of PHP, this one will show pie charts from a system. It was a productive day 😻

This is a dummy pdf with test data.

syntaxseed,
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@PJFDF Ooo nice!!

bhhaskin,
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@syntaxseed nice! I would imagine pdf generation would be tricky as a plug as you would need to make sure whatever external lib is installed and working.

bhhaskin,
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@syntaxseed oooo what library? Last time I did pdf generation is was a real nightmare.

syntaxseed,
@syntaxseed@phpc.social avatar

@bhhaskin

https://tcpdf.org/

Has a bit of a learning curve & poor docs... but it's working nicely.

syntaxseed,
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@bhhaskin Using a PHP library!

And it's only going to be installed on our own sites so we control the environment.

davidbisset,
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@syntaxseed can't wait to see or hear more. Rock it.

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