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[yury at heavenspa.com]

my naivety shows... true, but how rare is it to have php on IIS? and do you
have to jump thru a million loopholes to get it to work correctly..

peoples.. this is coming from a PHP hack.. not a hacker :)

:)
yury

/me thinks i should shut up and leave for coffee
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phillip Powell" <phillip.powell at adnet-sys.com>
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Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] PHP vs ASP


> Actually that's not quite a valid reason.  I had a contract job once
> where I built PHP pages on a secured IIS platform for an intranet web
> portal.  IIS doesn't always associate with ASP.
>
> Phil
>
> yury at heavenspa.com wrote:
>
> >simple.. how many IIS servers get hacked. Now how many unix/linux boxes
get
> >hacked..
> >- case closed!
> >
> >ciao
> >yury
> >
> >p.s. if your ready to flame me... please don't..
> >----- Original Message ----- 
> >From: "Carlos G. Chiossone" <carlos at sprout.net>
> >To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
> >Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 2:04 PM
> >Subject: [nycphp-talk] PHP vs ASP
> >
> >
> >Hi all, anyone knows an up-to-date site where I can gather some
> >reasoning for a client that wants to use ASP. I am trying to make the
> >case that PHP is better. But all I find is from 2002 and older.
> >
> >Something in the line of http://php.weblogs.com/php_vs_asp would be
> >great.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Carlos
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We have an existing form in PDF that is typically printed and used.
However, now they want some of the information to - of course - be
automatically be filled out from our database, and then downloadable and
printable.

Although only a single page, the form is quite nasty.  Although, I must
say, graphics/colors/etc aren't a concern.  I'm looking for ways to fill
in the information via PHP with the least amount of vector graphics
calculations, Postscript, or whatever else (this is mostly uncharted
territory for me).


Some thoughts

-- since the form is already in PDF, can I convert it to HTML.  Then,
using HTML as the template, fill in the information and convert back to
PDF?  I can't just stick to HTML because I'm concerned about printing
issues.

-- are there good (commercial is fine) libraries that let me do this?
While something native in PHP would be nice (I've seen PDFLib.com) I'd
have no problem using an external command and piping information around.

-- does Adobe, or anyone else, offer programmatic ways to use existing
PDFs as templates?

-- are there other/better ways to do this that I'm missing?

Money is less of a concern than time.

Thanks,

H

P.S:  Next step; sending print jobs to HP printers from Apache/PHP