Zend Framework

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.4
• Fix Version/s: None
• Component/s: Zend_Pdf
• Labels:

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Hi,

I would like to join my voice on http://framework.zend.com/issues/browse/ZF-3701 and add that it's still hard to extend some pdf classes.
Well it's not hard to create a new subclass (parent properties are protected, no longer private), anyway it's extremely hard to incorporate our subclass in Zend_Pdf normal behaviour without having to rewrite the entire class.

For instance I wanted to subclass Zend_Pdf_Page to add extra methods such as drawTextOnRight(), drawTextOnCenter(), getTextWidth()... and the problem is that default Zend_Pdf_Page is hard-coded within Zend_Pdf => Zend_Pdf::load() will return a pdf with all pages being instances of Zend_Pdf_Page and not of my subclass.

It would be really nice if Zend_Pdf used same mechanism as used by Zend_Db, ie. to store name of used pdf classes (Zend_Pdf_Page, Zend_Font...) as protected properties (ex: Zend_Db_Table::$_rowClass). That way we could easily subclass and fully customize our own version of Zend_Pdf and other pdf classes.

Regards,
Remy

• Assignee:

  Alexander Veremyev

  Reporter:

  Remy Damour

• Created:

  27/Jun/09 4:44 PM

  Updated:

  06/Apr/11 7:13 PM