Installing fpdf in Yii vendor - php

Question

I am trying to work with fpdf class in yii. So I import the total fpdf folder in yii vendor folder then tried to import in view file like:
Yii::import('application.vendors.*');
require_once('fpdf/fpdf.php');
then just paste a class as follows
class PDF extends FPDF
{
// Page header
function Header()
{
// Logo
$this->Image('logo.png',10,6,30);
// Arial bold 15
$this->SetFont('Arial','B',15);
// Move to the right
$this->Cell(80);
// Title
$this->Cell(30,10,'Title',1,0,'C');
// Line break
$this->Ln(20);
}
// Page footer
function Footer()
{
// Position at 1.5 cm from bottom
$this->SetY(-15);
// Arial italic 8
$this->SetFont('Arial','I',8);
// Page number
$this->Cell(0,10,'Page '.$this->PageNo().'/{nb}',0,0,'C');
}
}
// Instanciation of inherited class
$pdf = new PDF();
$pdf->AliasNbPages();
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->SetFont('Times','',12);
for($i=1;$i<=40;$i++)
$pdf->Cell(0,10,'Printing line number '.$i,0,1);
$pdf->Output();
?>
But that ends up with a error as "This pdf document might not be displayed correctly. And if I try to download and view then it says
"File type HTML document (text/html) is not supported". I added
"header('Content-Type: application/pdf');" on the view file with no help.
can anyone help?

Answer 1

Here are my recommendations.
First, follow this instructions and start using composer in your project.
http://main.org.ua/yii1-composer/
It is future, it's worth to learn it.
Then, install this package using composer https://packagist.org/packages/itbz/fpdf
And you are done.
No more manual includes or troubles with custom autoloaders.