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Best of PHP scripts for generating PDF files


There are several cases for a web application where a dynamic PDF file is a great solution for your
digital documents. Think about order documents in your eCommerce application, coupons for your
marketing campaign or just the PDF version from your web pages. There are plenty of situations
were a dynamic PDF document is a great way to solve problems, too. Using PHP it’s possible
generate those PDF files. There are several free PHP classes and there is the PDFlib library

which is a commercial product. This list is shows the most popular PHP classes and libraries.

 Generate PDF files using PHP

The following classes are written to generate PDF files “from the scratch” using PHP functions:

FPDF

The FPDF class is written written for PHP4 and was the first free PHP script for creatingPDF files

“on the fly”. I’ve used this class 8 years ago to generate several documents in several eCommerce

applications. The project website offers some great documentation and also a lot of useful examples. The latest version is from June 2011 and I hope the next version is written for PHP5. The original version doesn’t support UTF-8, but since while there is class named tFPDF which supports UTF-8.

TCPDF

Like many other PDF scripts is TCPDF based on FPDF, too. The TCPDF class was in the beginning a rewrite for PHP5 with support for UTF-8. Now is this project a great PDF generator with great image functions including support for the CMYK color mode.
The missing support for UTF-8 in FPDF was the reason that I use TCPDF class for all my projects since a view years now. If you have used FPDF in the past, it’s very easy to make the move. The documentation for TCPDF project is not so good as for the FPDF class, but there are a lot of well documented examples.

Zend_Pdf

The Zend framework has also PDF generation class, which has less functions than FPDF or the other classes. Like many other classes inside the Zend Framework is the documentation very limited for this class as well. If you’re already using the Zend Framework for your project and you need some basic PDF function, you should go for this PDF solution.

PDFlib

The PDFlib is the commercial PDF solution for PHP. If installed (compiled), you can use the PDFlib functions right in your PHP code without the need to include a class file or library. This might work better and is often faster, but product has also a “great” price. I’ve worked with PDFlib in one of the projects in the past and PDFlib is absolutely not a bad one. If you look for the PDF documentation on the PHP website, the information is outdated and isn’t updated for the current version anymore. At the moment that your project is bigger and creating PDF files is an important part in your project you should think about this PDF library for PHP.

Import PDF files and add content using PHP

The classes above are tools for creating PDF files using PHP code, for example to generate PDF invoice documents. Using these tools you need to create any element in your PDF document. The following classes will help you to use existing PDF files for your dynamic PDF file.

FPDI

FPDI is a great class extension for the FPDF and the TCPDF class script. It’s easy: The PHP code opens a file, stores it in the web sevrer’s memory and you can add text and images. The following example will show how it works.

PDI (a PDFlib product)

There is also some PDF import function, called PDI, for the PDFlib library. According to their website it’s required to buy this extension or class together with PDFlib as an bundle. I never used this PDF import class, but I think it’s important to mention the script in this article.

HTML to PDF conversion with PHP

There are a lot of requests for HTML to PDF conversion. This feature is useful if you like to generate a PDF version from your website dynamically. The following two projects are the most important classes (if you talk about available information and frequent updates).

mPDF

mPDF is based on FPDF and HTML2FPDF, with a number of enhancements. The script is able to process utf-8 encoded HTML code and is able to use CSS stylesheets for the generated PDF layout.

dompdf

dompdf is an HTML to PDF converter which is able to read/parse CSS 2.1 compliant HTML layouts. The script is able to render styles from external stylesheets and the style attributes from individual HTML elements. The PDF rendering function is currently provided either by PDFLib or the R&OS CPDF class written by Wayne Munro.

 

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The 5 Ultimate Ways to Drive New Traffic to your Online Store

Drive new traffic to your online store to create new customers and boost sales. Push the petal to the metal and increase your traffic with these 5 fundamental tips.

1. Optimize Your Site for SEO

  • Blogging: One of the surest ways to improve your SEO is to create a blog and post on it frequently. Not only will a blog boost your SEO but it will present you as an industry leader – someone who really knows their product and target market. Check out some of these great PrestaShop powered store blogs: What Goes Around NYC, Oh Snap Boutique, Creed Boutique
  • Text Is Everything: Focus on creating rich product descriptions and using powerful keywords. A good starting point is the Google Adwords Keyword Tool. Find out what customers are searching when they Google your competition. This will give you valuable information about what keywords you should concentrate on.

2. Use Wish Lists

Give your customers the option to create wish lists on your site and share the list with their friends. The wish list creator is marketing for you by creating a call to action that will be difficult to ignore and in turn will expose your store to new customers. These new customers are entering your site with a stronger sense of trust since the wish list creator has given your store the greatest endorsement possible, confirming that they shop there.

3. Embrace Social Networks

Social media is a necessary, inexpensive marketing tool to reach your target audience and increase web traffic. Much like a blog, social media should be updated frequently with posts that interest your audience and make you relevant in their daily lives. Don’t be too sales oriented on your social media but make sure that you redirecting fans and followers to your website. You also may want to include links for your customers to “share” your products from your site so that their friends hear about it.

4. Offer Referral Bonuses

Let your customers bring in more customers for you! Offer your customers discounts or cash towards their next purchase for referring friends to your store. Simplifying the process for your customers is the best way to increase their success. For example, offer a system on your site that allows customers to refer friends via email directly or provide your customers with a vanity URL to ensure that they get credit for everyone they refer.

5. Market Places & Price Comparers

Submit your e-commerce website to all of the top search engines and market places. You may also want to use a product feed to expand your reach. You can manually submit your products with all of your product details, photos and prices to search engines through databases such as Google Base. You may also want to do some research on price comparison shopping sites that may be a fit for your store. You always want to know where your competition is and if they are on price comparison sites, submit your inventory as well.

Also, make sure you take a look at the Complete Guide to SEO for additional strategies to boost SEO or download PrestaShop, the most SEO friendly e-commerce solution, today!

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Bootstrap

Bootstrap

Bootstrap, a front-end toolkit for rapidly developing web applications. It is a collection of CSS and HTML conventions. It uses some of the latest browser techniques to provide you with stylish typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation and everything else you need in a super tiny resource

Why use Bootstrap

Bootstrap is just CSS, but it’s built with Less, a flexible pre-processor that offers much more power and flexibility than regular CSS. With Less, we gain a range of features like nested declarations, variables, mixins, operations, and color functions. Additionally, since Bootstrap is purely CSS when compiled via Less, we gain two important benefits:

First, Bootstrap remains very easy to implement; just drop it in your code and go. Compiling Less can be accomplished via Javascript, an unofficial Mac application, or via Node.js (read more about this at http://lesscss.org).

Second, once complied, Bootstrap contains nothing but CSS, meaning there are no superfluous images, Flash, or Javascript. All that remains is simple and powerful CSS for your web development needs.

What’s inside

When you take a closer look at Bootstrap, you will notice we have separated the development files into seven distinct files:

reset.less A CSS reset originally made by Eric Meyer and modified for our use to remove unnecessary elements
preboot.less Color variables and mixins for things like gradients, transparencies, and transitions to simplify vendox-prefixed CSS blocks to one line of code each
scaffolding.less Basic and global styles for generating a grid system, structural layout, and page templates
type.less Headings, body text, lists, code, and more for a versatile and durable typography system
patterns.less Repeatable interface elements like navigation, modals, popovers, and tooltips to take you beyond the default scaffolding styles
forms.less Durable styles for various input types, form layouts, and control states.
tables.less Styles for tabular data in a number of varied displays

Since we opted to break our CSS into more manageable chunks for easy organization and iterations, compiling these files with Less means you end up with just one CSS file to include.

Why it works

Bootstrap works by providing a clean and uniform solution to the most common, everyday interface tasks developers come across. At Twitter, Bootstrap has quickly become one of our many go-to front-end tools when starting new applications and sites. This is because while it is very extensive, it’s flexible enough to work for many unique design needs.

Today, you can use Bootstrap to throw together quick prototypes or guide the execution of more sophisticated designs and larger engineering efforts. In other words, Bootstrap is a very simple way to promote quick, clean and highly usable applications.

We look forward to working with the open source community to evolve Bootstrap.

Where Bootstrap is heading

We want to keep working on slimming down Bootstrap’s already tiny footprint while also increasing the breadth of what it covers. As always, we’d love your feedback and hope you find it useful. If you’d like to help make Bootstrap better, feel free to fork it, file issues and watch its progress over on GitHub.

Unique Features of E-commerce Technology

Ecommerce words describes its own explanation for all internet based business. eCommerce Technology has expanded their branches in all market segments. Day by day we look some new technology and eCommerce application for our business. eCommerce is not new technology. It has been running from 10 years back. From back to current eCommerce technology has changed the lots for business profiles and vital product, pricing and retailer client details on more than 1,200 application developers and service providers in 23 different e-commerce market segments. These changes make it better.
The time is for gaining and achieving the some more features to stay away for long time in the eCommerce market. In the eCommerce technology development hundreds of eCommerce solutions and vendors are running and continual developing the best features to make it useful and perfect for their client.

The unique features of e-commerce technology include:

Ubiquity: It is available just about everywhere and at all times. Consumer can connect it to the Internet at any time, including at their homes, their offices, on their video game systems with an Internet connection and mobile phone devices. eCommerce is ubiquitous technology which is available everywher and can access all times by using internet and Wi-Fi hotspot such as airport, coffee cafe and hill station places.

Global reach: The potential market size is roughly equal to the size of the online population of the world. eCommerce Technology seamlessly stretch across traditional cultural and national boundaries and enable worldwide access to the client. eCommerce website have ability to translate the multilingual websites as well as allow the access to internatoin visitors all over the world.

Universal standards: The technical standards of the Internet and therefore of conducting ecommerce, are shared by all of the nations in the world. The whole online tradition are growing and expanding their own features in the world. To development the any kind of business need Internet and communication application which make the business relationship more lovingly and attractive for secure business and successful business. eCommerce Technology provide us powerful application to access our social networking and online eCommerce store any time and everywhere.

Richness: Information that is complex and content-rich can be delivered without sacrificing reach. It has been so simple to keep the record of our tradition commincation within the eCommerce time. You can save your audio, video, sent files, recieved files or data in your user account.

Interactivity: E-commerce technologies allow two-way communication between the merchant and the consumer. You can call them by using the voip and track the communication record. And second is is email communication which allow you to access all kind of mailing systemes and tracking.
Information density: The total amount and quality of information available to all market participants is vastly increased and is cheaper to deliver. Most business owners use the shopping cart and do the order of product and purchasing online. Online shopping process allows a consumer or company to receive personal details, product shipping, billing and payment information from a customer all at once and sends the customer’s information to the appropriate departments in a matter of seconds priority.

Personalization/Customization: E-commerce technologies enable merchants to target their marketing messages to a person’s name, interests and past purchases. They allow a merchant to change the product or service to suit the purchasing behavior and preferences of a consumer.

Social technology: User content generation and social networking technologies is most useful features which excelerat the client activity to share the information and content with one click. eCommerce technology has tie up the social media networking application to provide the best source of content sharing technology and eMarketing systems. You can share you content or data easily in just one click.

Free Vectors Available for All Designers

Vector graphics are commonly used by designers, illustrators and web artists due to the fact that they are extremely easy to modify and arrange. Vector graphics use a special format in which every image item is comprised of a line and fill. Shapes can be used and arranged in a myriad of formats to display practically any type of design. Raster images, by contrast, are created out of a multitude of little squares called pixels, each with its own color. Logo designs and web graphics are usually done in vector, while still photographs and digital paintings are usually done in raster. There are exceptions to this, but they are relatively uncommon.

The Overall Benefits of Vector Images

Vector images can be blown up to many times their size and they will never get distorted or lose focus. A vector image that is two hundred times the original graphic’s size will still have the exact same clarity as the original vector, whereas a raster image that is enhanced this amount will appear blurry and indistinct. Vector images are also far easier to palette swap than other images, which means that logos can be presented in a multitude of colors and web designs can be quickly changed to give a client a multitude of choices. In addition to this, vector images usually have extremely low file sizes compared to raster images, which make them ideal for online use.

Finding Free Vector Art

An additional benefit to vector art is that free vector art and free vector icons are available throughout the internet for public use. This means that you can quickly create designs, templates and logos without having to do the majority of the grunt work yourself. Taking advantage of free vector art allows you to avoid having to repeat the wheel for specific items that you already know you need, such as patterns that are commonly used, a vector background or standard vector icons. FreeVector.com is one of the leading providers of free vector artwork, and virtually anything you need to produce a top quality design can be found there.

Web Development 4 steps to success

Web site as a showcase of the business, and therefore it is very important to invest in us and his appearance. Site designed beautiful, clean and clear line is a primary factor affecting the success of the online marketing process. Today almost no business can afford to be without a web site, and in light of this need, companies building sites. Website Builder includes technical construction of the site from fundamental constants and feed quality and original content website. Professional company will invest in building a well-designed web site and update its contents, and thus affect the promotion of the site.

Step One – formulating the idea

After business owner came to the decision that he wanted to build his business website, the first stage is examining the idea from all angles. Him think what he wants to appear on the site, what content he wants to enter it, and the structure in which he is interested. To build a general plan business owner should go to competitors’ sites to see how their site works. He could find their strengths and weaknesses and think about how to build his site better.

Step Two – Business Consulting Web Development Company

Currently facing a business to building sites so that it takes away the data collected, the idea formulated and advises him how you should build your site. To select professional Web Development Company important to find out about her before, impressed work performed and meets personally with their representatives. Once the person has decided which company is right for him, after all, he hires the services and hand over responsibility for the building site.

Third stage – construction site

The process was created by the company using ready templates and content management systems. Degree that is beautiful and professional design of the site, while allowing the business owner to operate and update the site himself, below.

Step Four – Launch Site

The fourth and final phase purchase a suitable domain and hosting services are compatible and begin to promote the site. When building websites professionally done the site’s promotion process is easy. The search engine system detects a quality site with structured content and good and gives it priority. This is the simplest and easiest to move in search results. It is important to remember that there maintain the site and promote it regularly can update of new content. (חברות לבניית אתרים)

JavaScript library Modernizr 2.6

The latest version of Modernizr 2.6 has been recently released with a number of included features. Modernizr is a popular JavaScript library for HTML5 or CSS3 that helps in finding out whether a particular feature is there in a browser or not. While detecting browser features, the results include creating Java-script object which are shown as properties on global object and also as classes on the HTML element. These classes while also being added to HTML elements allow to key in or embed the CSS. A number of major new players on the web are now interested in the JavaScript library from modernizr.

Features

The new design for the Modernizr platform has led the core development focus from the community to enable the detections for 40 or more essential detects. The detects for the modernizr includes CSS filters, CSS regions, Scope Styles and others. Existing detects like Geolocation enable to find whether a native location support is available for a browser and can be shared with the trusted websites.

Being open source and supporting a range of web designs for different user experiences based upon the capabilities of a web browser, Modernizr 2.6 is the one for designers. Modernizr already has other styling elements for Internet Explorer made from HTML5 for improved semantics. The new release version 2.6 is also a close reflection of what is included as a progressive enhancement for building the website with JavaScript free foundation while adding the other layers.

Functions

Modernizr as the new library of detects is an improvement over the earlier technique of ‘UA sniffing practice’ detecting browser with user configuration property and is more reliable with following capabilities-:

● For over 40 next generation features, tests are conducted within a matter of milliseconds.

● Results of the tests are provided under Boolean properties.

● Classes of the HTML element clarify precisely what features are and are not supported by the modernizr library.

● Script loader that can pull ‘polyfills’(downloadable code or script which provides facilities that are not built-in to a web browser) to backfill their functionality for old browsers.

Extended Techniques

Modernizr detects from the property of a Flexbox update from the Flexbox legacy. This property includes different positioning elements and checks for shortcoming from it’s float-based layout feature. From the next property for WebGL test, a lesser reliability is therefore measured. This property for WebGL includes inadequate graphics memory or the GPU leading to a lesser detection. Other detections for modernizr features include the font face, background size, border image, border radius and box shadow. Few other features for detections include the methods from using the following – Modernizr. prefixed(), media query testing(), extensibility, testStyles and testProp(), testAllProps(), hasEvent() and _prefixes; _domPrefixes.

Modernizr detections for every HTML5 elements includes a polyfill feature and in most of the issues an HTML5 or CSS3 feature can be easily replicated for non-supporting browsers. A number of other detections and for authoring side features could be the next part of the release, more importantly for CSS.

Conclusion

The latest released version 2.6 for Modernizr detecting features for HTML5 or CSS3 is now considered as the important part to a web designer’s toolkit. The modernizr quickly and reliably discerns whether the feature is implemented natively (without external support). Modernizr with these new features ensures browsers have an easier and reliable method to control situation for actual feature detections. Standardizing the detecting feature from Modernizr, is now an important criterion from fast web design development. This helps the browser to return something sensible while browsers that may not understand the Modernizr test return nothing or undefined. A fast and growing pace of web development would need consistent implementations while also gaining compatibility for better edge case features.