Question

I have inserted some text in the WriteHTML function provided by http://www.fpdf.org/ under ‘Tutorial 6: Links and flowing text’.

I want to add some php code inside of it but it does not quite function.

I tried the following but it just wrote the code too.

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {

$html='Person:<b>".$row["firstname"] ." ". $row["lastname"]."</b>';

$pdf->AddPage();    
$pdf->SetXY(12, 127); 
$pdf->SetFontSize(11);
$pdf->WriteHTML(utf8_decode($html));
} $pdf->Output();

Any ideas? Is there any function in existance that can make this work?

Answer 1

Always be consistent with the use of quotes. If you open with a single-quote, close with a single-quote and if you open with a double-quote, close with a double-quote. Change the code to the following and it should work.

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {

$html="Person:<b>".htmlspecialchars($row["firstname"])." ".htmlspecialchars($row["lastname"])."</b>";

$pdf->AddPage();    
$pdf->SetXY(12, 127); 
$pdf->SetFontSize(11);
$pdf->WriteHTML(utf8_decode($html));
} $pdf->Output();