Once this is done, next step was to show those locations on map. For this we used Google Map API for PHP developed by Monte Ohrt (Google Map API for PHP). Their library contain one file-class, with very good examples/documentation, so we were able to integrate into our website very fast. It was also easy to integrate with smarty templates we used.

So, the reason why we avoided direct coding in javascript, is mainly because smarty code would become unreadable with few loops, few condition checking, which look much more natural if done in PHP.

Then I found one excellent library called tcpdf, which have great support for tables, different fonts. You can use html tags to create layouts, tables, blocks, define fonts, add images, so if you need really good tool, I greatly recommend this library. It is free library, and you can find many examples on their website.

However, I had to use fpdf library in same project, because we need to create Avery labels in pdf file, so user can print on sticker paper for example. This, of course could be done with TcPdf off course, but because it would take maybe whole day, so setup layout, we decided to use fpdf. It is not good idea to use two different libraries for same thing, but this was client request.