create pdf of rows in a database on a new page - php

Question

i am creating a student management system and i want to be able to generate a pdf report that will contain every students data in its own page i.e . studentId, Math, English, Science, Class, totals, Rank, myClass and myTotals.for example, in the table below i would expect the pdf to have 6 pages. each containing only details of a particular student. how do i go about doing this?
Thank you in advance
studentId Math English Science Class totals Rank myClass myTotals
2 75 83 84 3p1 242 1 3p1 242
5 88 77 77 3p1 242 1 3p1 242
1 80 66 85 3p1 231 2 3p1 231
6 92 97 96 5p2 285 1 5p2 285
3 70 88 90 5p2 248 2 5p2 248
4 50 82 50 5p2 182 3 5p2 182

Answer 1

loop through the rows and create a new page for every row. How to do that exactly depends on with what you create the pdf.

Answer 2

You could output the information to a LaTeX file (assuming the machine has it installed). I assume you get all your student details from a database into an array of arrays called students. If you are using mySQL or similar to store the data, this should be simple enough.
This should generate a report.tex file and then execute pdflatex to generate report.pdf file.
<?
$f = fopen('report.tex','w');
$out = '\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{a4wide}
\begin{document}
';
fwrite($f,$out);
//Example array
$students = array(array('studentId'=> 1, 'Math'=> 1, 'English'=> 5 , 'Science' => 5, 'Class' =>6, 'totals'=>6 , 'Rank'=>7 , 'myClass' =>7, 'myTotals'=>9));
foreach($students as $x){
$out = '\begin{table}[htbp]'."\n".' \centering'."\n";
$out .= '\begin{tabular}{|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|}'."\n";
$out .= '\hline'."\n";
$out .= 'studentId & Math & English & Science & Class & totals & Rank & myClass & myTotals \\\\ '."\n \\hline \n";
$out .= "{$x['studentId']} & {$x['Math']} & {$x['English']} & {$x['Science']} & {$x['Class']} & {$x['totals']} & {$x['Rank']} & {$x['myClass']} & {$x['myTotals']} ";
$out .= '\\\\'."\n \\hline";
$out .= '\end{tabular} '."\n".' \end{table}'."\n".'\newpage' ."\n";
fwrite($f,$out);
}
fwrite($f,"\n".'\end{document}');
fclose($f);
echo (exec('pdflatex report.tex'));
echo "\ndone";
?>
The script works properly now, that produces a correct file. Having the server send the pdf to you shouldn't be too difficult.