FPDF Header Question - Driving me crazy! - php

Question

I am trying to generate a PDF that outputs Item Names onto a template PDF (using FPDI) with the Username listed on the top of each page. Every user can have a different number of items (i.e. if there are 1-4 items, only output one page; if there 5-8 items, output two pages, etc.)
Here is an example of what I am trying to do: http://www.mediafire.com/?k2ngmqm1jmm
This is what I have so far. I am able to get all of the spacing to work by setting a TopMargin, but this doesn't allow me to put the Username header in.
<?php
require_once('auth.php');
require_once('config.php');
require_once('connect.php');
$username=$_GET['username'];
$sql="SELECT * FROM $tbl_items WHERE username='$username'";
$result=mysql_query($sql);
require_once('pdf/fpdf.php');
require_once('pdf/fpdi.php');
$pdf =& new FPDI();
$pdf->SetTopMargin(30);
$pdf->AddPage('L', 'Letter');
$pdf->setSourceFile('../pdf/files/chart_template.pdf');
$tplIdx = $pdf->importPage(1);
$pdf->useTemplate($tplIdx);
$pdf->SetTextColor(0,0,0);
$pdf->SetFont('Arial', 'B');
$pdf->SetFontSize(7);
while($rows=mysql_fetch_array($result)){
$pdf->Cell(20,5,$rows['itemname'],0,0,'C');
$pdf->Ln(45);
}
$pdf->useTemplate($tplIdx);
$pdf->Output('file.pdf', 'I');
?>
Please help!

Answer 1

I've done it previously using the 'header' class extension:
class PDF extends FPDF
{
function Header()
{
//Select Arial bold 15
$this->SetFont('Arial','B',15);
//Move to the right
$this->Cell(80);
//Framed title
$this->Cell(30,10,'Title',1,0,'C');
//Line break
$this->Ln(20);
}
Have a look at the tutorial which explains the header usage at : http://www.fpdf.org/en/tutorial/tuto2.htm