Re: Mailing Labels from MySQL database on web

[Michael T. Babcock]

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 05:02:47PM -0500, Cal Evans wrote:
> 2:  BETTER
> Use PHP to build a PDF on the server in the proper Avery label format and
> then serve it up through the web server. If you get this working, make sure
> you share how you did it.

Generating postscript from PHP is easy enough; ps2pdf on *nix platforms
will do the rest.

> 3: Better
> Use a reporting package. There are several reporting packages for MySQL.
> Check freshmeat.net or sourceforge.net to find the one best for you.

May I recommend checking the ability to fetch the data directly from Word
yourself with ADO and ODBC?
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Michael T. Babcock
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