07 The class Border

The BoxFrame uses the Border class to manage the border around the box. The border contains four different Pen objects for the four sides left, top, right and bottom. Therefore, it is possible to have four different line types (or no line at all) around a box frame.

You can set the same pen for all four sides or an individual pen for a certain side. The following example sets the pen for all sides and creates then some special pens for the top and the bottom sides by changing them in the border object.

$box = new ReportLib\BoxFrame(50.0, 10.0);
$box->getBorder()->setPen(new ReportLib\Pen(0.2, "#0000FF")); 
$box->getBorder()->getTopPen()->setExtent(1.0);
$box->getBorder()->getBottomPen()->setExtent(3.0);
$box->getBorder()->getBottomPen()->setColor("#FF00FF");
$body->addFrame($box);

$tf = new ReportLib\TextFrame("This is text in a box.", $tsNormal);
$box->addFrame($tf);

The output looks as follows.