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Creating Mailing Labels

8/8/2007 9:03:02 PM
PHPRunner General questions
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phpwalker author

Is there any way to create mailing labels using phprunner?
(where a user can print onto labels from the browser)

sol_knar 9/17/2007

I am interested in something similar to this as well. I would like to be able to add a button to open a page displaying only a few fields from a specific record and the to print it formatted as it displays.

Cheers.

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horsey_kim 10/25/2007

If you use word you can easily make labels from your mysql database with phprunner.
In PHPRUNNER, Have it where your database of address can be exported. There is an export feature. Export it via .csv
In my word I can create mailing list from csv files. I am now using word 2007 and it works great. I believe Works also has the same feature.
I like it because as people sign up on my website for mailings, it stores in database and then I just use export feature and open up word and I have an up to date mailing list.
Kim

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CanOfPoke 7/17/2008

I use word mainly and usually mail merge when printing out address labels, saves so much hassle.

K
kenlyle 11/5/2008

Is there an application that generates a PDF of Avery 8160 mailing labels? That would be phenomenal. Just to take Word out of the picture, and have it totally drop dead easy for the user.
Can the Dev team please think on this to see what might be possible? It seems like a fairly small extension of what's already there...the ability to generate tables and PDFs...
Is this bit of code helpful? http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf/user.php
After some experimentation, it seems that FPDF is easier, and more functional out of the box, at my skill level: http://www.fpdf.org/en/script/script29.php and needs the fpdf.php itself, too.
Thanks,

Ken