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Re: Re: PayPal Donations, PDF creation and snippets: are they possible?

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Hi IvanPsy and Rick,

just want to add some brand new information, which is not yet published, as some details about the type of integration are still to be confirmed:

A number of people (maybe two groups loosely interlinked) are working on an implementation of mPDF into Tiki.

It is very most likely, that a bunch of commits will be coming in January and I have tested a very basic self-made implementation, which is kind of working. If I would not know, that more skilled coders are n the same issue, I'd soon commit myself.

What about mPDF:

Whilst wkhtmltopdf is a pdf library written in C (or C+ or C++) and thus cannot be installed on an average shared hosting, mPDF is written in PHP and one of the missing links to advanced groupware capabilities, we have been searching since ages.

I am myself using mPDF in Tiki to create invoices and certificate. Despite being a roughly tinkered test-implementation, those documents are real use case and will be sent out likely tomorrow. However a proper mPDF implmentation (committed to the Tiki core) will not be done by myself, but as said by more skilled coders and likely needs a few weeks. I expect the experimental marked feature to likely be in 15 (future LTS) by the time of branching. If not, a backport is likely before Tiki 15 release.

mPDF is quite easy to implement into Tiki and it has awesome features and a lot of options (mainly for webmasters and webdevelopers or website administrators).

The only drawback is that mPDF has a non-compatible licence, why we cannot ship it directly.

Thus one of the main desicions to be made first, is to deside if we use the new addons feature for mPDF installation, or if we prepare a preference and hooks, for that a wbmaster can download mPDF seperately and install it to Tiki inn only a few minutes in a welldocumented and easy to handle process.

In other words, we have to deside, if the use of addons would be the appropriate way or if it would be alike taking a sledgehammer to break a nut.

So: if you have a few weeks time, you will have available a great PDF output feature besides the original printing feature.

Best regards,
Torsten

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