If you’re a PHP developer interested in developing web applications that deliver the contents of their database tables in PDF format, then hopefully this group of articles will be what you’re looking for. Welcome to the second article of the series “Building PDF documents with PHP 5.” Composed of five instructive tutorials, this series shows you the basics for creating PDF files directly from your own PHP 5 scripts, and complements the theoretical concepts with copious hands-on examples.

Having introduced you to the main subject of this series, now let me refresh your memory of the topics that were discussed in the previous tutorial. In that article, we learned that creating primitive PDF documents using PHP is a process that’s reduced to spawning a new instance of the “PDFlib” class that comes bundled with the popular “PDFLib” library, and then calling one or more of its pertinent methods to open a new PDF document and a page, which usually need to include some basic contents in them, like text strings and images as well.

With regard to specifying the dimensions of the PDF page that will be used for constructing the corresponding document, the “PDFLib” package offers the handy “begin_page_ext()” method. It’s useful for creating PDF pages of different sizes, including some popular formats, like A3, A4, and A5.

In addition, you saw how to include some basic texts into several PDF files by using a combination of the “set_text_pos()” and “show()” methods. Naturally these are packaged with the “PDFLib” library. In this way you learned some of the most common tasks associated with the creation of PDF files.

However, to be frank, I’m just starting to scratch the surface when it comes to building PDF files with PHP 5. There are many other helpful methods, provided by aforementioned “PDFLib” package. Thus, in this second part of the series I’ll provide you with some examples that illustrate how to build PDF files that contain multiple lines of text; remember,  in the preceding article I worked only with single-line strings. Additionally, I’ll teach you how to position these texts on a given PDF page.

With the preliminaries out of the way, it’s time to continue learning more about building PDF files with PHP 5. Let’s go!

Review: building basic PDF documents using PHP 5

As usual with my articles on PHP development, before I move forward and show you how to include multiple lines of text into a given PDF document, I’m going to give you a good review. I want you to recall how to utilize some basic methods included with the “PDFLib” library to build a few simple PDF files.

Below I listed the source code of two examples shown in the first installment of the series. They demonstrate how to create a couple of PDF documents, in A4 and A5 format respectively. Their respective signatures are as follows:

// example creating a basic PDF (A4) document with PHP

try {

// create new instance of the 'PDFlib' class

$pdf=new PDFlib();

// open new PDF file

if(!$pdf->begin_document("","")){

throw new PDFlibException("Error creating PDF document. ".$pdf->get_errmsg());

}

$pdf->set_info("Creator","pdf_example.php");

$pdf->set_info("Author","Alejandro Gervasio");

$pdf->set_info("Title","Example on using PHP to create PDF docs");

$pdf->begin_page_ext(595,842,"");$font=$pdf->load_font("Helvetica-Bold","winansi","");

$pdf->setfont($font,24.0);

$pdf->set_text_pos(50,800);

$pdf->show("PHP is great for creating PDF documents!");

// end page

$pdf->end_page_ext("");

// end document

$pdf->end_document("");

// get buffer contents

$buffer=$pdf->get_buffer();

// get length of buffer

$len=strlen($buffer);

// display PDF document

header("Content-type: application/pdf");

header("Content-Length: $len");

header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=example.pdf");

echo $buffer;

}

catch (PDFlibException $e){

echo 'Error Number:'.$e->get_errnum()."n";

echo 'Error Message:'.$e->get_errmsg();

exit();

}

// example creating a basic A5 PDF document with PHP 5

try {

// create new instance of the 'PDFlib' class

$pdf=new PDFlib();

// open new PDF file; insert a file name to create the PDF document on disk */

if(!$pdf->begin_document("","")){

throw new PDFlibException("Error creating PDF document. ".$pdf->get_errmsg());

}

$pdf->set_info("Creator","example.php");

$pdf->set_info("Author","Alejandro Gervasio");

$pdf->set_info("Title","Example on using PHP to create PDF docs");

$pdf->begin_page_ext(421,595,"");

$font=$pdf->load_font("Helvetica-Bold","winansi","");

$pdf->setfont($font,24.0);

$pdf->set_text_pos(50,500);

$pdf->show("PHP is great for creating PDFs!");

// end page

$pdf->end_page_ext("");

// end document

$pdf->end_document("");

// get buffer contents

$buffer=$pdf->get_buffer();

// get length of buffer

$len=strlen($buffer);

// display PDF document

header("Content-type: application/pdf");

header("Content-Length: $len");

header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=example.pdf");

echo $buffer;

}

catch (PDFlibException $e){

echo 'Error Number:'.$e->get_errnum()."n";

echo 'Error Message:'.$e->get_errmsg();

exit();

}

So far, so good. After looking at the two previous code samples, I’m pretty sure that you now remember the basics of building simple PDF documents that include single lines of text. So now we’ll go one step further and see how to create PDF files that display multiple lines.

As you may guess, this interesting process will be discussed in the next section, so click on the link that appears below and keep reading.

Displaying multiple lines of text on a single PDF document

As I anticipated in the previous section, the “PDFlib” library also incorporates a handy method, called “continue_text().” As its name clearly implies, it allows you to “continue” an existing line of text previously included into a given PDF document. This makes it possible to build several blocks of text that are composed of multiple lines.

To demonstrate the implementation of this brand new method, below I listed an illustrative hands-on example. It first builds a basic PDF file, and then includes into it a few lines of trivial text.

Having said that, please take a look at the corresponding code sample, which is as follows:

// example creating a basic PDF document with PHP and multiple lines using the 'continue_text()' method

try {

// create new instance of the 'PDFlib' class

$pdf=new PDFlib();

// open new PDF file

if(!$pdf->begin_document("","")){

throw new PDFlibException("Error creating PDF document. ".$pdf->get_errmsg());

}$pdf->set_info("Creator","example.php");

$pdf->set_info("Author","Alejandro Gervasio");

$pdf->set_info("Title","Example on using PHP to create PDF docs");

$pdf->begin_page_ext(421,595,"");

$font=$pdf->load_font("Helvetica-Bold","winansi","");

$pdf->setfont($font,24.0);

$pdf->set_text_pos(50,500);

$pdf->show("PHP is great for creating PDFs!");

$pdf->continue_text('This is another line of text');

$pdf->continue_text('This is another line of text');

$pdf->continue_text('This is another line of text');

// end page

$pdf->end_page_ext("");

// end document

$pdf->end_document("");

// get buffer contents

$buffer=$pdf->get_buffer();

// get length of buffer

$len=strlen($buffer);

// display PDF document

header("Content-type: application/pdf");

header("Content-Length: $len");

header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=example.pdf");

echo $buffer;

}

catch (PDFlibException $e){

echo 'Error Number:'.$e->get_errnum()."n";

echo 'Error Message:'.$e->get_errmsg();

exit();

}

As you can see, in this specific case I used the aforementioned “continue_text()” method that comes packaged with the “PDFLib” library to build a simple PDF file, which this time displays multiple lines of basic text. Obviously, the functionality offered by the method in question is indeed remarkable, since most PDF files display, in one form or another, more than one line of strings.

To complement the above example, below I included an image that depicts the  output generated by the code sample that you learned previously. It is as follows:

Pretty easy to grasp, right? At this point you hopefully learned how to build basic PDF documents that are capable of displaying multiple lines of simple text, directly from inside your PHP 5 scripts. So what’s the next step? Well, as you probably realized, the prior example used the “set_text_pos()” method to define the corresponding X,Y coordinates where the text should be displayed on the pertinent PDF document.

Thus, considering the functionality provided by this method, in the last section of this tutorial I’m going to show you how to use it to display chunks of text at different positions on the same PDF file.

To see how this will be achieved, please jump ahead and read the next few lines. I’ll be there, waiting for you.

Building a multi-line PDF document using the set_text_pos() method

As you learned in the previous section, including multiple lines of text in a given PDF file is actually a no-brainer process, since it only requires calling the handy “continue_text()” method as many times as necessary. However, it should be noticed that before displaying any strings on the file in question I utilized the “set_text_pos()” method to specify what X,Y coordinates should be used to start showing the pertinent text. This sounds pretty logical, right?

You already understand how to put multiple lines of text in a specific PDF file. Therefore, the last example in this article will focus on demonstrating how to display several lines of text in a given PDF document, which will be positioned at different X,Y coordinates via the aforementioned “set_text_pos()” method.

This being said, here’s the corresponding code sample, so have a look at it, please:

// example creating a basic PDF document with PHP and multiple lines using the 'set_text_pos()' method

try {

// create new instance of the 'PDFlib' class

$pdf=new PDFlib();

// open new PDF file

if(!$pdf->begin_document("","")){

throw new PDFlibException("Error creating PDF document. ".$pdf->get_errmsg());

}

$pdf->set_info("Creator","example.php");

$pdf->set_info("Author","Alejandro Gervasio");

$pdf->set_info("Title","Example on using PHP to create PDF docs");

$pdf->begin_page_ext(421,595,"");

$font=$pdf->load_font("Helvetica-Bold","winansi","");

$pdf->setfont($font,24.0);

$pdf->set_text_pos(50,500);

$pdf->show("PHP is great for creating PDFs!");

$pdf->set_text_pos(50,450);

$pdf->show('This is another line of text');

$pdf->set_text_pos(50,400);

$pdf->show('This is another line of text');

$pdf->set_text_pos(50,350);

$pdf->show('This is another line of text');

// end page

$pdf->end_page_ext("");

// end document

$pdf->end_document("");

// get buffer contents

$buffer=$pdf->get_buffer();

// get length of buffer

$len=strlen($buffer);

// display PDF document

header("Content-type: application/pdf");

header("Content-Length: $len");

header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=example.pdf");

echo $buffer;

}

catch (PDFlibException $e){

echo 'Error Number:'.$e->get_errnum()."n";

echo 'Error Message:'.$e->get_errmsg();

exit();

}

Certainly, after analyzing the signature of the above example, you’ll have to agree with me that positioning different chunks of text in a concrete PDF file using a set of predefined X,Y coordinates is a very understandable process, particularly when the respective “set_text_pos()” method is utilized.

In addition to providing you with the previous code sample, I captured a screen shot below to show you the corresponding output generated by the example. Here it is:

Well, at this point I assume that you are much better prepared to build a few basic multi-line PDF documents with PHP 5, particularly if you’ve studied in detail all of the code samples shown previously. As usual with many other topics on PHP development, practice is the best way to learn how to build dynamic PDF files, so I recommend that you create your own testing examples.

Final thoughts

In this second part of the series, you hopefully learned the basics for building basic PDF files that include multiple lines of text, via the proper combination of the useful “set_text_pos()”, “show()” and continue_text()” methods respectively.

In the next tutorial, things will get even more interesting, since you’ll learn how to include some basic images into a given PDF document, in addition to building text flows.

Now that you’ve been warned about the bunch of topics that will be covered in the upcoming tutorial, you won’t want to miss it!

This article was originally posted at DevShed.com

Contributed by Alejandro Gervasio

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if coupled with a high lift. Power operated lifting machines can minimise effort and maximise speed but it is important to match the machine to the application. The basic options are a chain hoist or a wire rope hoist, electric or pneumatic. As with hand operated lifting machines, the available capacities of each varies considerably. In the main, the lowest capacities will be chain hoists and the highest will be wire rope hoists, although there is a considerable overlap in the middle ranges. Pneumatic hoists are usually in the lower capacity range and utilise chain.

Powered hoists have a duty rating and it is important that the rating is appropriate for the application. Depending upon the standard the hoist was manufactured to, the terminology may vary but essentially the duty rating is based on a combination of the frequency of use and the state of loading. The purpose of the duty rating is to ensure that the machine has an adequate reliable service life relative
to cost. A machine which operates continuously will suffer more wear than one in irregular use. One which lifts the maximum load on every occasion will wear faster than one normally
lifting only moderate loads and the occasional maximum load. Clearly a machine designed to withstand continuous working at maximum load will cost a lot more than one working at the other end of the spectrum. To get the right balance of life, reliability and cost, it is important to look in detail at these aspects of the application.

Speed

The speed of operation is another variable. A generation ago a large proportion of hoists were single speed and either too slow for high lifts or too fast for accurate positioning. Dual speed is now an option available on the majority of electric hoists and in fact some companies no longer supply single speed hoists.

If accurate positioning is required, then a dual speed electric hoist will usually be the best option. A few words of caution are necessary however. Very small movements
of the load usually require what is generally known as “inching”. To “inch” the load up or down, the operator presses the appropriate button and immediately releases it. The load moves a fraction of an inch. It works but it is not at all good for the hoist, particularly the electric motor. The motors in electric hoists have to have a high starting torque with commensurate current and therefore heating effect. They are cooled by a fan on the end of the rotor shaft. Repeated frequent starting without allowing the motor to run will cause overheating and burn the motor out.

Whilst it is difficult to completely avoid inching, a hoist with an appropriate slow speed will keep it
to the minimum and still give the accuracy of control required. But there is another factor to consider. All electric motors have a rating in terms of the amount of load they can take and for how long at a time. The motor fitted by the manufacturer will be appropriate to the duty rating of the hoist. However some hoists have a considerably lower rating on the windings for the slow speed compared to the high speed.

For these hoists, the slow speed is primarily to avoid the snatch effect that starting directly in high speed would cause and is not intended for prolonged use; rather it is just a brief step to the high speed. Indeed the usual means of control is a two stage button where the first pressure switches in slow speed and further pressure switches to high speed. So, if your application requires prolonged use at slow speed, check with the manufacturer to ensure it has the necessary rating on the low speed windings.

Height

The height of lift is another important variable. Wire rope hoists wind the rope onto a grooved drum so there is a finite limit to the length which can be accommodated. However manufacturers often offer their hoists in more than one configuration, lifting on anything from a single fall of rope to four or more. Thus, for example, a machine reeved with two falls of rope will have half the working load but twice the height of lift as the same machine reeved with four falls of rope. Special high lift versions may also be available.

In chain hoists, the chain passes over a pocketed load wheel and exits the machine on the other side so it may seem that there is no limit to the length of chain. In practice several things can limit the maximum length. As each link of chain enters or leaves the load wheel, a slight pulse occurs and, as the chain gets longer, this pulse may at some point match the natural frequency of the chain and cause a growing oscillation to occur. Furthermore, the chain is a relatively heavy lifting medium so, beyond a certain length, its extra weight has to be allowed for. If the slack side is allowed to hang freely, it can be a hazard, particularly on multi-fall blocks where for every metre of lift, two or more metres of slack chain are produced. This can easily snag when travelling or being drawn back during lowering. It is more of a hazard on power operated equipment than with hand operated because there is no feedback to the operator such as will be felt through a hand chain or lever. The normal practice for a powered chain hoist, whatever the height of lift, is to fit a chain collecting box. It is vital that this box is big enough to collect all the chain without spillage. Once any spillage occurs, rather like a siphon, all the chain will cascade out of the box at an increasing rate with the consequent danger to anyone or anything below.

Safety devices are an important feature of any power operated hoist. Within the European Union Machinery Directive, the essential health and safety requirements for power operated hoists include loading control devices to prevent dangerous movements of the load where the maximum load is not less than 1,000kg or the overturning moment is not less than 40,000Nm. As a result, new electric wire rope hoists for the European market have a load sensor device which is set a few per cent above the safe working load. Some hoists have two sensors, one set lower to trigger a warning device and the other to prevent further hoisting. Chain hoists usually employ a different method as will be explained below.

All power operated hoists need some means of limiting the hoisting and lowering motions but the methods employed vary. Modern electric wire rope hoists generally have a rope band or guide which prevents the wire rope springing off the drum under slack rope conditions. As the drum rotates this band or guide travels along the drum rather like a nut on a screw thread and operates the upper and lower limit switches. Older hoists often did not have a guide and relied on the rising hook or bottom block to trip the upper limit switch. Generally they did not have a lower limit switch so, to avoid the dangers of over-lowering, it was normal practice to ensure that the hook could touch the floor before running out of rope.

Electric

Many electric chain hoists rely upon a clutch which slips at a preset torque and comes into play when stops on the chain make contact with the body of the hoist. Although this method does not switch off the power and therefore relies on the operator to realise that the limit has been reached and release the control, it

is nevertheless very effective and
has the added value of preventing significant overload.

On other electric chain hoists,
the limits are operated by the chain mechanically engaging with a switch mechanism. Pneumatic chain hoists generally have limits operating in a similar way in conjunction with the air control valves.

The weight a pneumatic hoist can lift depends upon the air supply pressure so if this is correctly regulated, it effectively prevents significant overload. However some designs also have a spring loaded valve built into the hoist suspension. This controls the supply
of air to the motor and can be set to control the maximum load which can

be lifted.

Pneumatic hoists have many inherent safety features such as the relative safety of compressed air compared to electricity in certain environments. However the effect of the exhaust air must be considered.
In particular consider noise and whether dust or similar particles will be disturbed by it. It may be necessary to pipe the exhaust away from the area.

The environment is a factor to be considered when selecting any hoist. In a short article this cannot be dealt with in much detail but suffice to say that as well as considering the potential hazards to the environment arising from the hoist, consider also the possible effect of the environment on the hoist. In particular, extremes of heat and cold, humidity, corrosive atmospheres, exposure to chemicals, salt water etc can all have a significant affect on safety. Finally, the limitations of some older designs should be kept in mind when evaluating their suitability for current use.

Wise buyers of overhead cranes and similar products follow a set method to getting a technically-correct overhead crane at the best price commercially available.

Understand not only what the overhead crane capacity is, but what the duty cycle is. Duty cycle is a measure of how hard the overhead crane is used. In this respect, an overhead crane is just like a internal combustion engine – although redline may be at 7,000 revolutions per minute, the engine will not last if it runs at redline twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. It’s best to find a worksheet or chart that can help better understand the duty cycle the overhead crane should be rated at. Proper duty cycle selection can easily save you huge amounts of money.

Get an apples-to-apples comparison. Different crane manufacturers use different standardized and not-so-standardized systems to rate duty cycle of overhead cranes. The duty cycle can be expressed in the following ways: “H-rating”, meaning H1, H2, H3, etc…, “M-rating”, meaning M2, M3, M4…, and a letter-rating, meaning A, B, C… It’s okay to use any of these, but remember to get your seller to state what type of rating is being used. This includes mechanically, electrically, and structurally. Some overhead crane manufacturers will sell a “Class D electrical” overhead crane. This does not mean it is structurally or mechanically Class D, and makes for a significantly mismatched comparison.

Buying an overhead crane, gantry crane, or jib crane does not have to be a painful experience. To buy the technically correct crane for the best commercially available price, understand your duty cycle, get apples-to-apples comparisons. The extra time spent will deliver huge rewards.

This article was written by Lifting Gear Direct suppliers of all related lifting gear products

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The first is called the Sitemap Creator (AKA Sitemap Generator), its aim is to generate the code your website needs to get every page indexed on all the major search engines (Google sitemap, Yahoo sitemap and MSN Sitemap) The tool index’s your entire site, creates the XML file for you and then reads your current robots.txt file (if it exists) and adds the correct code to it meaning all you have to do is upload the files, as simple as that!

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Well it hasn’t yet been another week but there have been so many events here at Paramiliar Design Studios that we just had to post a message early!

As some of you may know the Google sitemap utility is one of the better ways of making sure your entire website gets indexed by Google, but did you know that ALL search engines support an XML sitemap?  Well thanks to the guys here at Paramiliar Design Studios we have developed a new tool which will make it easy for you to create the files you need.  The Sitemap Creator AKA Para-Sitemap will generate a Google Sitemap, MSN Sitemap and Yahoo Sitemap all in one file, then it will also create the robots.txt file you will need based upon your current file (if you don’t have a robots.txt file don’t worry it will still create it for you)

How does it work? Well you visit the Sitemap generator here and type in your domain name, simple as that! The results may take a while to produce so please be patient.  Once the files have been produced the screen will update telling you where to download these files.

We have already had several big websites use the script (sorry we are not at liberty to disclose who) and they have all given us great appraisals on our work. The tool is undergoing updates all the time so check back regularly to see the improvements!

Expect another posting shortly with even more updates!

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