This is the code for index which will export what ever is in page under HTML varialbe:
<?php
require('fpdf/fpdf.php');
$html = 'kkjkjkjkjjkj';
$pdf = new FPDF();
$pdf->AliasNbPages($html);
$pdf->AddPage($html);
$pdf->SetFont('Times','',12);
$pdf->Output();
?>
Here it's exporting it to PDF but here how I can let the $html to get export to PDF using FPDF
<?php
require('fpdf.php');
$pdf = new FPDF();
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->SetFont('Arial','B',16);
$pdf->Cell(40,10,'Hello World!');
$pdf->Output();
?>
1) Have a look at the Manual and Tutorial sections of the FPDF website
There are a lot of simple examples to take a look at.
2) You can't send html code with the AddPage() function. It should be orientation ("P" or "L") and size (like "A4") (see their documentation here)
3) It is not possible to just insert html into FPDF. You have to cut it up into text, links, images, tables and build the PDF content up just as you build up the HTML. There are some script that do support html input, but even those make mistakes now and then. My advise: instead of creating/building/compiling HTML, generate FPDF elements.
This example clearly exports a (simple) $html variable to a PDF
http://fpdf.org/en/tutorial/tuto6.htm
It is not possible to directly write HTML to a PDF using FPDF - you would have to separate the data into strings, set formatting to them, etc - basically, you will not be dealing with HTML anymore.
However, if you are not limited to FPDF, I would suggest looking into wkhtmltopdf, which can take HTML as an input, and render it to PDF using Webkit rendering engine. It can even take a remote URL and convert it to a PDF on your server.
Related
I'm using mPDF to export a large table to a PDF. As I've read online, I need to break my HTML content into chunks and pass them to WriteHTML method one by one.
But looks like my bootstrap CSS is not getting exported when I do this. My table borders are not visible. No paddings...etc.
How can I achieve both these tasks?
This is my code:
$content_chunks = str_split($content, 1000);
$pdf = new Pdf();
$mpdf = $pdf->api; // fetches mpdf api
$mpdf->SetHTMLHeader(static::buildHeader());
$mpdf->SetHTMLFooter('Generated On: ' . date("r").'||{PAGENO}');
foreach($content_chunks as $html)
{
$mpdf->WriteHTML($html);
}
return $mpdf->Output($file_name,'D');
This is what the official docs say about breaking large HTML into chunks. But I can't find any information with related to exporting bootstrap css.
I am newbie to php.
I have developed small application in PHP. Now I have few label controls in one webpage inside form. that i want to save in pdf. Is there any tool like itextsharp (In ASp.net), where I can export one panel or form to pdf. (By rendering)
I checked fpdf and other. In that we can print text. My label data is coming from MYSQL.
Any suggestion.
I suggest mpdf. I'ts very simple, you can create your html as string and render it as pdf.
require_once("mpdf/mpdf.php");
$html = "<p>Hello World</p>";
$mpdf = new mPDF('c', 'A4');
$mpdf->WriteHTML($html);
print $mpdf->Output();
In html page some tags are dynamically created using jquery and contents are loaded from msql db using jquery and php.
I want convert this dynamic page to pdf.
I have tried following code but it generate pdf of static part of html page.
<?php
ob_start();
?>
//html code and internal css, javascript used in external file with jquery library
<?php
include('dompdf/dompdf_config.inc.php');
$contents = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
$dompdf = new DOMPDF();
$dompdf->load_html($contents);
$dompdf->render();
$dompdf->stream('file.pdf');
?>
So how to store contents of dynamic html page in a php variable after processing it ( using javascript/php ) and convert it to pdf usin dompdf or other converter.
I'd suggest you take a look at wkhtmltopdf. I've had good results with getting it to render google charts, which are built dynamically from a javascript api.
http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/
As Marc said, you have to read generated DOM with javascript.. something like $('html').html() and then post it to php to generate pdf
This may not meet exactly what you are looking for, but wkhtmltopdf could be what you need. Since PHP is a server-side technology, you will have a difficult time getting it to process any client-side javascript. wkhtmltopdf scans the page, javascript and all, then generates a pdf file on the server. Hope this helps you out!
Consider using a tool like wkhtmltopdf to directly generate a page as a PDF. It will run javascript and generate the page as WebKit would render it.
A client of mine has a food blog hosted on WordPress. Each post entry contains some text and a div called "recipes" with some more text inside it. They would like to add to this div a link that generates a PDF of the recipe, dynamically, for saving or printing, as the user sees fit.
I have seen quite a few Wordpress plugins that offer the conversion of entire posts to PDF but not anything that's customizable enough to select a given portion of a post, the way we'd like to.
Any suggestions on how to do this? I'm comfortable with PHP, Javascript, CSS but am new to the various PDF libraries.
Take a look at dompdf It's pretty easy to work with :) This is from the documentation:
<?php
require_once("dompdf_config.inc.php");
$html =
'<html><body>'.
'<p>Put your html here, or generate it with your favourite '.
'templating system.</p>'.
'</body></html>';
$dompdf = new DOMPDF();
$dompdf->load_html($html);
$dompdf->render();
$dompdf->stream("sample.pdf");
If you need more control than dompdf you could always use PHP's XML/XSL methods to convert the HTML to XSL:FO and use FOP on the commandline to generate the PDF. It's a little long-winded but you get complete control of the output styling/structure, the ability to "lock" the PDF, provide metadata, etc.
hi guys how can i make a harizontal pdf file by using php.i created for the register form(name ,email, street,city country) can any one say some ideas.
thanks in adv
For that purpose you need to include a library of php after downloading it FPDF
And this is just an example to use fpdf library.
<?php
require('fpdf.php');
$pdf=new FPDF('l','mm','A4');
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->SetFont('Arial','B',16);
$pdf->Cell(40,10,'NAME');
$pdf->Cell(40,30,'EMAIL');
$pdf->Cell(40,50,'STREET');
$pdf->Cell(40,70,'CITY');
$pdf->Cell(40,100,'COUNTRY');
$pdf->Output();
?>
Take a look at FPDF to generate the PDF, or for converting HTML straight into a PDF - wkhtmltopdf.