Problem with FPDF showing date correctly

[tomhousley]

I have succesfully created action etc to use FPDF to create pdfs from content in my database.

However, I'm not able to get it to print dates correctly.

Here is print_this_action.php

The

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import('actions/pdf.php');

is another php file I use for the headers & footers.

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<?php
define('FPDF_FONTPATH','actions/font/');
require('actions/fpdf.php');
import('actions/pdf.php');
class dataface_actions_print_this_action {
function handle(&$params){
$app =& Dataface_Application::getInstance();
$record =& $app->getRecord();

$pdf_body = $record->val('cor_body');
$pdf_date = $record->val('cor_date');

$pdf=new PDF();

$pdf->AliasNbPages();
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->SetFont('arial','',10);
$pdf->SetLeftMargin(20);
$pdf->SetRightMargin(20);

$pdf->Cell(190,4,'',0,1,'L',0);
$pdf->Ln(20);

$pdf->Cell(10,20,$pdf_date,0,1,'L',0);

$pdf->Ln(20);

$pdf->MultiCell(0,5,$pdf_body,0,1);
$pdf->Output();
}
}
?>

The $pdf_body prints fine. the $pdf_date shows up in the PDF as just the word Array.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks, Tom

[shannah]

You should use the strval() method of Dataface_Record rather than val(). Some types of data are stored internally as arrays or objects. In particular date fields are stored as arrays. Using strval() ensures that you will get the string version.

-Steve

[tomhousley]

Thank you Steve,

One more question... how do i format the date, currently it looks like:

2009-07-16 21:13:00

... I would like something like:

16 July 2009

Can't get my head round how the date thing in PHP works in this.

Currently have:

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$pdf_dmy = $record->strval('cor_date');

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$pdf->Cell(165,5,$pdf_dmy,0,1,'R',0);

Thank you for your help, Tom.

[shannah]

See http://ca.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
for date formatting options:

You would do something like:

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date('Y-m-d', strtotime($record->strval('mydatefield')));


-Steve

[shannah]

You can't write HTML directly into a PDF. I think that libraries like FPDF may support limited HTML styling of text in certain structures (e.g. Multicell), but certainly not full HTML.

If you want to layout your PDF using HTML and CSS, you may want to look at a library like dompdf instead.

-Steve

[cookie720]

tcpdf has a write html function TCPDF::writeHTML which supports li div, and even img.....but im getting an error

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TCPDF ERROR: [Image] Unable to get image: http://localhost/live_matters/xataface/images/document_icon.gif

[shannah]

Is that URL working?

[cookie720]

yeah it is! but im not even sure why it would need that image, i was trying to display a BLOB field