[nycphp-talk] Batch Printing
Corey Fogarty
corey at bmfenterprises.com
Sun Jul 24 11:30:36 EDT 2005
You don¹t even need to link to Access, just export a comma separated list to
a text file. Mail Merge will grab that no problem.
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 11:28:49 -0400
> From: Aaron Fischer <agfische at email.smith.edu>
> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Batch Printing
> To: NYPHP Talk <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
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> Agreed on that. I regularly do the word mail merge thing for stuff
> like that. Link an Access db to the mysql db and then merge with word.
>
> -Aaron
>
> On Jul 22, 2005, at 11:01 AM, Scott Mattocks wrote:
>
>> >
>> > While PHP is wonderful and very versatile, I don't think PHP is the
>> > right tool for the job here. There are tools designed specifically to
>> > do
>> > what you want. Use MS Word's Mail Merge feature to create and print the
>> > letters. You will be done in 1/10th the time it will take you to put
>> > together a PHP/Smarty/Javascript solution.
>
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