Developers question
Posted: 13 Sep 2011, 15:33
Hi All,
I've been building a system around j1.5 and virtuemart. Now that the system is almost finished I'm focusing on the pdf that is automatically sent after each purchase confirmation.
I was creating the pdfs using a joomla view.pdf.php but it is really limited and the tcpdf library is quite old. The pdfs would be saved to the /images directory using cURL, attached to an email and then deleted.
So I was wondering what would the phoca devs advise?
Should I install phocapdf and try and use the tcpdf library supplied? and maybe the phoca classes and methods, or should I install the official latest release of tcpdf and just access it as demonstrated.
I'm assuming now that no matter what library I use, the view method is not good enough and I should build the pdfs outside of the joomla framework. (I hope this makes sense).
I've been building a system around j1.5 and virtuemart. Now that the system is almost finished I'm focusing on the pdf that is automatically sent after each purchase confirmation.
I was creating the pdfs using a joomla view.pdf.php but it is really limited and the tcpdf library is quite old. The pdfs would be saved to the /images directory using cURL, attached to an email and then deleted.
So I was wondering what would the phoca devs advise?
Should I install phocapdf and try and use the tcpdf library supplied? and maybe the phoca classes and methods, or should I install the official latest release of tcpdf and just access it as demonstrated.
I'm assuming now that no matter what library I use, the view method is not good enough and I should build the pdfs outside of the joomla framework. (I hope this makes sense).