Yesterday, at the PHP Unconference in Hamburg, Germany, my colleague Björn Meyer and I held a session with the following title and abstract.
You can download the slides [PDF] and live coding samples [TAR.GZ] referenced in the session. Note that the live coding samples require the other files included in the phpLiveDocx distribution file.
Template-Based DOCX, DOC & PDF Generation with Zend Framework.
New and highly efficient approach to generating word processing documents with Zend Framework.
Using the current PHP PDF libraries, it is time consuming to get the formatting of a document exactly right. Furthermore, whenever you want to change the layout, you have to start over repositioning all the text and graphics. In this session, we present a new approach to generating not only PDF files with PHP but, amongst others, also DOCX and DOC. It utilizes templates, created in a word processing package, and Zend Framework. The approach supports PHP on Linux, Windows and Mac.
Attendance and interest in the topic of SOAP based document generation services was very strong.