Question

My client has pre-printed certificates, which we’ve to use and print again with dynamic user’s values on it using PHP / CakePHP.

client says, he will scan them and then he can choose the location where [name] will be printed, where [dates] and [score] will be printed, so any ideas how we can achieve such things?

One thing, i had seen from friend’s ref, is they are creating PDF file, using PDF Pro version and there, they are replacing text box [txtbox] with dynamic values using .Net, so any idea/guide to achieve the same with php / cakephp.

thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Hi
I had done the same thing previously.

My first question is – is the type of certificate your client needs is consitent (single)? Since my method requires a bit of adjusting the layout with CSS

So what you can do is take the layout of the certificate (jpg after scanning).
Now take the values to be printed on the certificate in a form or through the database (your own logic), open a new popup (using JS) which is essentially an HTML page with the certificate image as Background and place the textboxes at the appropriate location on that page and tell the JS on that page to print the page.

You’ll also need to adjust the browser properties (popups and header/footerless printing).