Alessandro Nuzzo has just published a great introduction about Zend_Service_LiveDocx. If you are able to read Italian take a look at the following:

Mi capita spesso di dover generare dinamicamente dei file PDF o DOC. Alla ricerca di una soluzione che mi facilitasse il lavoro mi sono imbattuto in LiveDocx, un servizio basato su SOAP che permette di generare dei documenti partendo da dei template creati con un word processor. Solitamente quando devo generare dei PDF utilizzo 2 approcci: o l’”HTML-to-PDF Approach” oppure il “Programmatic Approach”.

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• LiveDocx: template based document generation

Julien Pauli has just published a great commentary about Zend_Service_LiveDocx, comparing it to his library odtphp. If you are able to read French take a look at the following:

Voila quelques temps j’ai sorti odtphp, un script PHP qui analyse des fichiers odt à la recherche de “tags” et qui les remplace par des données que vous fournissez.
C’est très pratique pour générer des factures ou d’autres documents basés sur un template odt et une source de données type MySQL.

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• LiveDocx : service web de templating de documents

Gjero Krsteski has just published an introduction that illustrates how to create word processing documents using Zend_Service_LiveDocx. If you are new to Zend_Service_LiveDocx and can read German, this is a great starting point:

Letztens stand ich vor der Herausforderung, eine PDF-Klasse zu schreiben, die PDF-Dateien erzeugt. Als Inhalt für die PDF Dateien waren sensible Kundendaten angedacht. Diese Anforderung war mir nicht fremd, jedoch konnte ich mich gut daran erinnern, dass sie mit viel Arbeit verbunden war. Die meisten Libraries bieten nur die Möglichkeit, die PDF-Dateien Zeile pro Zeile zu generieren Je nachdem woher man die Daten dafür beschaffen muss, kann sich dies zu einem mühseligem Unterfangen entwickeln. Hier kann ich aktuell zwei Lösungsansätze vorschlagen, die leicht anzuwenden sind und eine gute Sicherheit gewährleisten.

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• PDF Datei erzeugen

You may have heard about FPDF, TCPDF. These are used to generate PDF document in PHP. But very few of you may have heard about LiveDocx, can be found here http://www.livedocx.com/. The most cool news I’m going to tell you that Zend Framework 1.10.0 provides clean and simple interface to LiveDocx API. LiveDocx is soap based service. If you are interested more in LiveDocx, following the link I’ve already provided you.

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• Creating word processing document using Zend_Service_LiveDocx

Download Zend Framework 1.10.0 Full and read the updated documentation on ZendFramework.com.

You can find Zend_Service_LiveDocx_* at the following locations in the distribution tree:

Source code

/library/Zend/Service/LiveDocx.php
/library/Zend/Service/LiveDocx/MailMerge.php
/library/Zend/Service/LiveDocx/Exception.php

Unit tests

/tests/Zend/Service/LiveDocx/LiveDocxTest.php
/tests/Zend/Service/LiveDocx/MailMergeTest.php
/tests/Zend/Service/LiveDocx/MailMerge/*

Demonstration applications

/demos/Zend/Service/LiveDocx/*

I really recommend taking a look at the demonstration applications, as they illustrate all of Zend_Service_LiveDocx functionality.

You can check that your server environment is set up correctly to run Zend_Service_LiveDocx, by executing check-environment.php in the directory /demos/Zend/Service/LiveDocx/.

I would like to thank Matthew Weier O’Phinney, Zend Framework Project Lead and all other members of the Zend Framework community, who have contributed to Zend_Service_LiveDocx.

As of the first alpha version of Zend Framework 1.10, the functionality of Tis_Service_LiveDocx is available directly in the Zend Framework in Zend_Service_LiveDocx.

As of today, the use of Tis_Service_LiveDocx is deprecated. Instead use Zend_Service_LiveDocx.

With the exception of the constructor, the API of Zend_Service_LiveDocx is 100% backward compatible to that of Tis_Service_LiveDocx.

At the wish of the Zend Framework community, the constructor was updated from:

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// deprecated - do not use
$phpLiveDocx = new Tis_Service_LiveDocx_MailMerge('myUsername', 'myPassword');

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// correct - do use
$phpLiveDocx = new Zend_Service_LiveDocx_MailMerge(
    array (
        'username' => 'myUsername',
        'password' => 'myPassword'
    )
);
 
// alternatively
$phpLiveDocx = new Zend_Service_LiveDocx_MailMerge();
 
$phpLiveDocx->setUsername('myUsername')
            ->setPassword('myPassword');

I would encourage you to update your projects to use the Zend_Service_LiveDocx family of classes.

If you need any assistance in migrating your code, please post a support request into the support forum.

Please go to the download section of ZendFramework.com and download Zend Framework 1.10.0 Beta 1 Full.

The paths to the demonstration applications and documentation remain the same as listed in the previous post.

• Patch Monday: LiveDocx Server Update Policy

In these maintenance windows, the backend service will not be available. Usually, the downtime is only a few minutes.

Please go to the download section of ZendFramework.com and download Zend Framework 1.10.0 Alpha Full.

The paths to the demonstration applications and documentation remain the same as listed in the previous post.

Using Subversion (SVN) you can anonymously checkout the Standard Trunk repository:

svn checkout http://framework.zend.com/svn/framework/standard/trunk/ ./

You can find Zend_Service_LiveDocx_* at the following locations:

Source code

/library/Zend/Service/LiveDocx.php
/library/Zend/Service/LiveDocx/MailMerge.php
/library/Zend/Service/LiveDocx/Exception.php

Unit tests

/tests/Zend/Service/LiveDocx/LiveDocxTest.php
/tests/Zend/Service/LiveDocx/MailMergeTest.php
/tests/Zend/Service/LiveDocx/MailMerge/*

End-User documentation (as raw XML)

/documentation/manual/en/module_specs/Zend_Service_LiveDocx.xml
/documentation/manual/en/figures/zend.service.livedocx.*

Demonstration applications

/demos/Zend/Service/LiveDocx/*

Learn more about the Zend Framework repository in the official wiki.

I would like to thank Matthew Weier O’Phinney, Zend Framework Project Lead for promoting Zend_Service_LiveDocx to the Standard Trunk repository.

The next and final step will be Zend_Service_LiveDocx becoming part of the Zend Framework 1.10 distribution file.