Re: Advice Mixing PHP and Lua?

[David Given <dg@...>]

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Bertrand Mansion wrote:
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> FPDF is very popular in the PHP world because it is free and easy to
> use. Its pseudo OO code is ugly though.
> But TCPDF, which is even more useful is even uglier, probably the
> ugliest code I have seen in PHP ever.

On the gripping hand, don't forget that you can also write out an XSL-FO
file, which is dead easy because it's just simple XML, then run the
result through fop and generate PDF from that.

This has the advantage in that you can trivially define all your style
in off-line XSLT documents so that all your Lua code needs to concern
itself with is the actual content... but it has the disadvantage in that
 all your style is stored in off-line XSLT documents.

http://www.learn-xsl-fo-tutorial.com/
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/

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