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TXT Generator

Create complicated plain text TXT using PHP

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TXT Generator is a PHP script, the younger member of the "Generators" family. The script is aimed to creation of the plain text files (TXT). Certainly, there is no use to "just create TXT file using PHP" it is simple - so, TXT Generator is powered by additional features in order to make it possible to create complicated layouts using just plain text. Sometimes there is a need to stick to plain text (like creating plain text e-mails) - and here TXT Generator can help you.

The script is using user-friendly input format, which is actually XML template. This template can be generated dynamically (like dynamic php web-pages) and then passed to the TXT Generator (or stored for future use) - and TXT Generator will convert this XML template into TXT file.

TXT Generator has many features which will help you to make your generated TXT files look not as a bunch of lines of text: paragraphs with alignment, custom width, borders and page orientation; ordered and unordered lists; and even tables, with variable width, in-cell text alignment, table orientation on page.

Using the form below you can test the work of the TXT generator. Just create your XML template (or use the given one), insert it into the form and push the "Create" button.

Only mind that XML has certain rules:

All templates must have <?xml version="1.0"?> at the very beginning.
All the document data should be enclosed into <Document> … </Document> element
All element tags must be closed like this: <Document> … </Document> or like this <Document />
Attributes must always be quoted:
<Table border="0"> … </Table>
<align hor="center" />
All elements must be properly nested:
wrong: <tr><td> </row></td>
correct: <tr><td> … </td></tr>
Document can contain comments:

NOTE! If during generation you will get some "XML ... " error - this means that you made an error in your XML template (did not close some tag or something).

>> show the example template in a separate window

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<document>
    <head>
        <author>Paggard [paggard@paggard.com]</author>
        <title>TXT Generator sample</title>
        <subject>To show the class in action</subject>
        <description>This document is created for test purposes, to demonstrate the features of the TXT Generator Class.</description>
    </head>

<body>

<align hor="center">
TXT Generator Class
</align>
<line />

<p align="right">One Ring to rule them all. One Ring to find them.<br />
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.<br />
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.<br />
</p>

<p align="justify">TXT Generator is a PHP script, the younger member of the "Generators" family. The script is aimed to creation of the plain text files (TXT). Certainly, there is no use to "just create TXT file using PHP" - this is simple - so, TXT Generator is powered by additional features in order to make it possible to create complicated layouts using just plain text. Sometimes there is a need to stick to plain text - and here TXT Generator can help you.
</p>

<table border="1"  width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
    <td>This script is commercial and can not be distributed freely. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>the price for the script is:</td>
    <td>34 USD </td>
</tr>
</table>

<br />
Some Usage Examples:<br/>

<align hor="right">
<p border="1" width="80%">Right-positioned paragraph + border<line />
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum.
</p></align>

<align hor="left">
<p width="50%">Left-positioned paragraph<line />
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum.
</p></align>

<br />

Lists
<list type="ordered">
   <li>Item 1</li>
   <li>Item 2</li>
        <list type="unordered">
           <li>Item 1</li>
           <li>Item 2</li>
           <li>Item 3</li>
           <li>Item 4</li>
        </list> 
   <li>Item 3</li>
   <li>Item 4</li>
</list> 
<br />
<list type="unordered">
   <li>Item 1 </li>
   <li>Item 2</li>
   <li>Item 3</li>
   <li>Item 4</li>
</list>
<br />
Tables
<table width="50%" border="1" align="right" text_align="center">
<tr>
    <td>Right aligned Table</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>Cell One</td>
    <td>Cell Two</td>
</tr>
</table>

<table width="50%" border="1" align="left" text_align="right">
<tr>
    <td>Left aligned Table</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>Cell One</td>
    <td>Cell Two</td>
</tr>
</table>

<table width="60%" border="1" align="center">
<tr>
    <td>Center aligned Table</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. <br />Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. </td>
</tr>
</table>

</body>
</document>

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