Question

This is what I’m trying to achieve. If All is selected from the drop down menu then I select all clients from my database. For each client it will then run the script creating the html page and then the pdf. This is where I have got to but I cant get it to generate a html page and pdf for each client.

<?php
$client_id=$_POST["client_id"];
$date_start=$_POST["date_start"];
$date_end=$_POST["date_end"];

if ($client_id == 'ALL') 
{
  $con = mysql_connect("localhost","user","password");
  if (!$con)
  {
    die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
  }

  mysql_select_db("mydatabase", $con);  

  $query = "select client_id from ca_client_account";

  $result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());

  while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
  {
    $command="php $result.php $result $date_start $date_end > $result.html";
    exec($command, $output, $status);
    echo $command;
    if ($status!=0) {print_r($output); die("wget failed with status $status"); }

    $command="wkhtmltopdf-i386 --margin-left 5mm --margin-right 5mm $result.html $result.pdf";
    exec($command, $output, $status);
    if ($status!=0) die("htmltopdf failed");
  }

}
else
{
  $command="php $client.php $client_id $date_start $date_end > $client.html";
  exec($command, $output, $status);
  if ($status!=0) {print_r($output); die("wget failed with status $status"); }

  $command="wkhtmltopdf-i386 --margin-left 5mm --margin-right 5mm $client.html $client.pdf";
  exec($command, $output, $status);
  if ($status!=0) die("htmltopdf failed");
}
?>

For a single client everything is perfect. When I try and generate all client statements I cant get it to work.

What am i doing wrong?

Many thanks

Answer 1

$result will not deliver what you expect here. You need to specify the exact field you intend to echo out. In this case $row['client_id'] would work.