Re: Advice Mixing PHP and Lua?

[Stefan <stefan@...>]

Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> > On Oct 27, 2009, at 8:34 PM, Patrick wrote:
> >
> > > Actually the only thing I am really suck with is FPDF. I want to
> > > generate PDF quotes for my small business.
> > Perhaps something like lpdf would help?
> >
> > http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/lua/#lpdf
> >
> > lpdf is a binding for PDFlib:
>
> FPDF explicitly avoids PDFlib.

Perhaps LuaHPDF then?

http://luahpdf.luaforge.net/

> Looking at the code in FPDF, it seems to be easy to convert to pure Lua,
> but of course I know no PHP. If anyone knows PHP and can confirm that it'd
> be easy to convert to pure Lua, I could try it.

The PDF dialect that FPDF creates appears to be a slightly older one, 
which is basically a red-headed stepchild of Postscript. This means that 
it is just a fancy text template/generation engine. It shouldn't be TOO 
hard to port it over... (famous last words)