03 Body, Header, and Footer

See example 29

The Report object holds the whole structure of the report. You can add content to the body by getting the reference from the Report object with the function getBody. The body is a vertically organized SerialFrame. When you add content to the body the library will print these frames one below the other.

Besides the body there is also a SerialFrame for a header and for a footer which you can access via getHeader and getFooter functions in the Report object. If you add content to the header and/or the footer their heights will reduce the printable area on the page.

You can add any frame type to the header and footer but normally you will use a PageFrame as the main container. With this frame type you can define on which pages the library should print the header and footer content.

In the following example I add a simple vertical container to the footer and add a box with some text. The text is centered on the bottom of the page.

$tsBold = ReportLib\TextStyles::getTextStyle(ReportLib\TextStyles::BOLD);

$report = new ReportLib\Report();
$footer = $report->getFooter();

$vc = $footer->AddVContainer();
$vc->setMarginTop(5.0);
$box = $vc->AddBox();
$box->setUseFullWidth(true);
$tf = $box->AddText("Adiuvaris    -    At the lake 901a", $tsBold);
$tf->setHAlignment('C');
$tf->setVAlignment('B');