Programming PHP

Now we can complete the invoice with data we get from an HTML form. We also
want to print the form, though.
If we only wanted to save an electronic copy, it would be as simple as:
$word->ActiveDocument->SaveAs("c:/path/to/invoices/myinvoice.doc");
This has the side effect of setting the ActiveDocument->Saved flag to True, which lets
us close the application without being prompted to save the modified invoice.
If we want to print the document, there are three steps: print, mark the document as
saved so we can quit without a dialog box, then wait until the printing has finished.
Failure to wait means the user will see a “Closing this application will cancel printing”
warning. Here’s the code for doing this:
$word->Application->Run("invoiceprint");
$word->Application->ActiveDocument->Saved=True;
while($word->Application->BackgroundPrintingStatus>0){sleep (1);}
In this code, we’ve created a macro, InvoicePrint, with our desired printer settings.
Once we call the macro, we loop until the value of BackgroundPrintingStatus is set
to 0.
Example 15-2 shows the complete PHP program to complete and print the invoice
using Word.
Example 15-2. Completing and printing a Word invoice from PHP