I want to Generate a Pdf in Php Using FDPF. can we draw a table in fpdf. I want to Design a Table In the Image given Using FPDF.Is it Possible. I am new to fpdf Please help me. I want Above table design. Thanks in Advance
you should download an addon called PDF_MC_TABLE or copy it from here: http://www.fpdf.de/downloads/addons/3/
$pdf = new PDF_MC_Table();
$pdf->Row(array("this\nis a test","with a multi\ncell"));
$pdf->Output();
You can try this.. It is not the correct design for what you are looking for, but it will helpful to you to create a table.
require("fpdf.php");
$pdf->SetFont('Arial','B',16);
$pdf->SetTextColor(192,192,192);
$pdf->Cell(60,10,'Name:',1,0,'C',false,0);
$pdf->Cell(130,10,'Ali',1,1,'C');
$pdf->Cell(60,10,'Subject:',1,0,'C',0);
$pdf->Cell(130,10,'Maths',1,1,'C');
$pdf->Cell(60,10,'Maximum Marks:',1,0,'C',0);
$pdf->Cell(130,10,100,1,1,'C');
$pdf->Cell(60,10,'Marks Obtained:',1,0,'C',0);
$pdf->Cell(130,10,88,1,1,'C');
$pdf->Cell(60,10,'Percentage:',1,0,'C',0);
$pdf->Cell(130,10,88,1,1,'C');
$pdf->Output();
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I have created a Student Information Form and it is
connected to a MYSQL database and I want to export all the submitted data from MYSQL DB to PDF ?
How to do that ?
You should make use of PDF creator libraries like: FPDF , TCPDF, EzPDF
All three are easy to learn in the order I've put. The documentation of FPDF and EzPDF are very neat and clean. But TCPDF Documentation is not that readable.
Checkout this site: http://www.tcpdf.org/. It also allows to output document created on the fly easily into a browser.
Also there is a good example of doing this: here is the link: https://www.phpflow.com/php/generate-pdf-file-mysql-database-using-php/
Hope this answer is helpful to you...
<?php
require('fpdf/fpdf.php');
$pdf = new FPDF();
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->SetFont('Arial','B',12);
foreach($result as $row) {
$pdf->SetFont('Arial','',12);
$pdf->Ln();
foreach($row as $column)
$pdf->Cell(90,12,$column,1);
}
$pdf->Output();
?>
I have many PDFs that are generated and uploaded to my server.
The problem is they contain the same page three times (3 pages in total with the same content).
My goal is to edit the PDF with PHP so that it contains only one page.
Is there any library that allows me to simply load a PDF and keep only the first page?
Thank you!
Using FPDI, you can create a function to extract the first page of a PDF file:
function first_page ($path) {
$pdf = new FPDI();
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->setSourceFile($path);
$pdf->useTemplate($pdf->importPage(1));
return $pdf;
}
Then output the extracted PDF as you would do with FPDF:
// Extract first page from /path/to/my.pdf
// and output it to browser with filename "MyPDF".
first_page('/path/to/my.pdf')->Output('MyPDF', 'I');
FPDF (http://www.fpdf.org/) or MDPF (http://www.mpdf1.com/mpdf/index.php) are great libraries for work with PDF files. I have experiences only with creating PDF; but I assume that one of those libraries can solve your problem.
Edit: Here is some example with FPDF
https://gist.github.com/maccath/3981205
I have been looking and testing this for a couple days now and was wondering if anyone could point me in a different direction. I have a very long job application HTML form (jobapp.html) and a matching PDF (jobpdf.pdf) that have the same field names for all entries in both the HTML form and the PDF. I need to take the user data that is entered in the form and convert it to a PDF. This is what I have gathered so far but don't know if I am on track:
Is pdftk the only viable 3rd party app to accomplish this?
Using pdftk would i take the $_POST data collected for the user and generate a .fdf(user.fdf) then flatten the .fdf on the .pdf(job.pdf). So irreguarless of where the fields are located on each document the information on the fdf would populate the pdf by field names?
I have been trying
http://koivi.com/fill-pdf-form-fields/tutorial.php
I have also looked at "Submit HTML form to PDF"
I have used fpdf several times to create php-based pdf documents. An example following:
require('fpdf.php');
$pdf = new FPDF();
$pdf->AddFont('georgia', '', 'georgia.php');
$pdf->AddFont('georgia', 'B', 'georgiab.php');
$pdf->AddFont('georgia', 'I', 'georgiai.php');
# Add UTF-8 support (only add a Unicode font)
$pdf->AddFont('freesans', '', 'freesans.php', true);
$pdf->SetFont('freesans', '', 12);
$pdf->SetTitle('My title');
$pdf->SetAuthor('My author');
$pdf->SetDisplayMode('fullpage', 'single');
$pdf->SetLeftMargin(20);
$pdf->SetRightMargin(20);
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->Cell(40,10,'Hello World!');
$pdf->Output();
You can learn very fast with these tutorials from the website itself.
EDIT: Example to save form data: (yes, is very easy...)
require('fpdf.php');
$pdf = new FPDF();
$pdf->AddPage();
foreach ($_POST as $key =>$data)
{
$pdf->Write(5, "$key: $data"); //write
$pdf->Ln(10); // new line
}
$pdf->Output($path_to_file . 'file.txt','F'); // save to file
Look at these pages created with fpdf, really!
http://www.fpdf.org/
That would be the library to do it. I used it here to add images to a form and submit it to create a PDF with those images: http://productionlocations.com/locations
The actual code to do it is pretty complex.
I have found PrinceXML very easy to use. It takes your HTML/XML, applies CSS, and converts it into a PDF. The PHP extensions work very well. Unfortunately, it's not free.
One way you can consider is using an online API that converts any HTML to PDF. You can send them a generated HTML (easier to produce) that will contains your user's submitted data, and receive back a high fidelity PDF.
There are quite a few services available on the market. I like to mention PDFShift because it offers a package in PHP that simplifies the work for you.
Once you've installed it (using Composer, or downloaded it directly, depending on your choices) you can quickly convert an HTML document like this:
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');
use \PDFShift\PDFShift;
PDFShift::setApiKey('{your api key}');
PDFShift::convertTo('https://link/to/your/html', null, 'invoice.pdf');
And that's it. There are quite a few features you can implement (accessing secured documents, adding a watermark, and more).
Hope that helps!
How can I create a new document using other PDFs that I'm generating?
I have methods to create some documents, and I want to merge them all in a big PDF, how can I do that with TCPDF?
I do not want to use other libs.
TCPDF has a tcpdf_import class, added in 2011, but it is still "under development". If you don't want to use anything outside of TCPDF, you're out of luck!
But FPDI is an excellent addition to TCPDF: it's like an addon. It's as simple as this:
require_once('tcpdf/tcpdf.php');
require_once('fpdi/fpdi.php'); // the addon
// FPDI extends the TCPDF class, so you keep all TCPDF functionality
$pdf = new FPDI();
$pdf->setSourceFile("document.pdf"); // must be pdf version 1.4 or below
// FPDI's importPage returns an object that you can insert with TCPDF's useTemplate
$pdf->useTemplate($pdf->importPage(1));
Done!
See also this question:
TCPDF and FPDI with multiple pages
Why don't you use Zend_PDF, it 's really a very good way to merge file.
<?php
require_once 'Zend/Pdf.php';
$pdf1 = Zend_Pdf::load("1.pdf");
$pdf2 = Zend_Pdf::load("2.pdf");
foreach ($pdf2->pages as $page){
$pdf1->pages[] = $page;
}
$pdf1->save('3.pdf');
?>
Hi i think TCPDF is not able to merge pdf files.
You can try it with an shell command and
PDFTK Toolkit
So you dont have to use an other pdf library.
This thread is from 2009, but using existing PDFs in PHP is still an issue in 2020.
After Zend_PDF has been abandoned and TCPDI does not support PHP 7, FPDI currently seems one of the few working solutions left in 2020. It can be used with TCPDF and FPDF, so existing code keeps working. And it currently seems well maintained.
Check out FPDI and FPDF_TPL. This isn't a perfect solution, but you can basically use FPDF_TPL to create a template of your PDF file and the insert it into your PDF file.
Background info:
I got a project to produce a customised PDF on the fly from a given PDF file using PHP. All I need it to do is to replace strings, e.g. search in "template.pdf" for "{Address}", replace with "Street Name".
I've seen links to fpdf/pdfi/dompdf etc., but can't find any useful example code that I could use :s.
Any help / pointers would be greatly appreciated.
fpdf is fantastic, you need to use somthing else to import an exisitng PDF though, See below.
http://www.setasign.de/products/pdf-php-solutions/fpdi/
require_once('fpdf.php');
require_once('fpdi.php');
$pdf =& new FPDI();
$pagecount = $pdf->setSourceFile('TestDoc.pdf');
$tplidx = $pdf->importPage(1, '/MediaBox');
$pdf->addPage();
$pdf->useTemplate($tplidx, 10, 10, 90);
$pdf->Output('newpdf.pdf', 'D');
decided to generate html web page (PHP) then use wkhtmltopdf
(http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf)
to produce the pdf bit of a work around but less hastle
PDFlib (with the additional PDI) from pdflib.com should be able to do this for you. Admittedly it is pretty pricey, so there may be other options, too :)