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Understanding the Zend Framework, Part 5: Creating PDF files

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Nicholas Chase (nicholas@nicholaschase.com), Developer/Writer, Studio B

Nicholas Chase, a Studio B author, has been involved in Web site development for companies such as Lucent Technologies, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Nick has been a high school physics teacher, a low-level radioactive waste facility manager, an online science fiction magazine editor, a multimedia engineer, and an Oracle instructor. More recently, he was the Chief Technology Officer of an interactive communications firm in Clearwater, Florida, USA, and is the author of several books on Web development, including XML Primer Plus (Sams). He's currently trying to buy a farm so he and his wife can raise alpacas and chickens. He loves to hear from readers and can be reached at: nicholas@nicholaschase.com.

Summary: In previous parts of this "Understanding the Zend Framework" series, you created the basic application, the Chomp online feed reader, using the open source PHP Zend Framework. In this tutorial, you use the Zend Framework's PDF capabilities to generate a PDF document based on entries the user has saved.

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Date: 18 Jan 2011 (Published 01 Aug 2006)
Level: Intermediate
PDF: A4 and Letter (736 KB | 40 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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To better understand the goals of the feed-reader project, read "Introduction to Syndication, (RSS) Really Simple Syndication," by Vincent Luria.
Thought Storms ModelViewController explains the MVC and the controversy and confusion surrounding it.
In "Server clinic: PDF for the server," Cameron Laird explains the benefits that can be achieved from using PDF creation.
Learn more about Zend Core for IBM, a seamless, easy-to-install, and supported PHP development and production environment that features integration with DB2 and Informix databases.
"Generate PDF files from Java applications dynamically" provides a step-by-step guide to using iText to generate PDF documents from Java applications.
"Publish your DB2 data to PDF using XSL" details how to do so in three steps.
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