TCPDF Save file to folder? - php

Question

I'm using TCPDF to print a receipt and then send it to customer with phpMailer, but I have a problem:
I have no idea how to save the file into a pdf.
I've tried this:
// reset pointer to the last page
$pdf->lastPage();
//Close and output PDF document
$pdf->Output('kuitti'.$ordernumber.'.pdf', 'I');
$this->Output("kuitit");

Answer 1

try this
$pdf->Output('kuitti'.$ordernumber.'.pdf', 'F');

Answer 2

this stores the generated pdf file in your custom folder of your project
$filename= "{$membership->id}.pdf";
$filelocation = "D:\\wamp\\www\\project\\custom";//windows
$filelocation = "/var/www/project/custom"; //Linux
$fileNL = $filelocation."\\".$filename;//Windows
$fileNL = $filelocation."/".$filename; //Linux
$this->pdf->Output($fileNL, 'F');

Answer 3

$pdf->Output() takes a second parameter $dest, which accepts a single character. The default, $dest='I' opens the PDF in the browser.
Use F to save to file
$pdf->Output('/path/to/file.pdf', 'F')

Answer 4

Only thing that worked for me:
// save file
$pdf->Output(__DIR__ . '/example_001.pdf', 'F');
exit();

Answer 5

For who is having difficulties storing the file, the path has to be all the way through root. For example, mine was:
$pdf->Output('/home/username/public_html/app/admin/pdfs/filename.pdf', 'F');

Answer 6

TCPDF uses fopen() to save files.
Any paths passed to TCPDF's Output() function should thus be an absolute path.
If you would like to save to a relative path, use e.g. the __DIR__ global constant (see this answer).

Answer 7

If you still get
TCPDF ERROR: Unable to create output file: myfile.pdf
you can avoid TCPDF's file saving logic by putting PDF data to a variable and saving this string to a file:
$pdf_string = $pdf->Output('pseudo.pdf', 'S');
file_put_contents('./mydir/myfile.pdf', $pdf_string);

Answer 8

nick's example saves it to your localhost.
But you can also save it to your local drive.
if you use doublebackslashes:
$filename= "Invoice.pdf";
$filelocation = "C:\\invoices";
$fileNL = $filelocation."\\".$filename;
$pdf->Output($fileNL,'F');
$pdf->Output($filename,'D'); // you cannot add file location here
P.S. In Firefox (optional) Tools> Options > General tab> Download >Always ask me where to save files

Answer 9

$pdf->Output( "myfile.pdf", "F");
TCPDF ERROR: Unable to create output file: myfile.pdf
In the include/tcpdf_static.php file about 2435 line in the static function fopenLocal if I delete the complete 'if statement' it works fine.
public static function fopenLocal($filename, $mode) {
/*if (strpos($filename, '://') === false) {
$filename = 'file://'.$filename;
} elseif (strpos($filename, 'file://') !== 0) {
return false;
}*/
return fopen($filename, $mode);
}

Answer 10

require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
$pdf = new TCPDF(PDF_PAGE_ORIENTATION, PDF_UNIT, PDF_PAGE_FORMAT, true, 'UTF-8', false);
$html = '<h2>Welcome toTcpdf</h2>';
$html.= '<p>Welcome toTcpdf</p>';
//$pdf->writeHTML($tbl, true, false, true, false, '');
$pdf->writeHTML($html, true, false, false, false, '');
$time = time();
$sFilePath = __DIR__ . '/upload/'.$time.'.pdf' ;
$pdf->Output( $sFilePath , 'F'); // Save to folder
//$pdf->Output( $sFilePath , 'I'); // view to browser
//$pdf->Output( $sFilePath , 'D'); // Download instant
this is working

Answer 11

You may try;
$this->Output(/path/to/file);
So for you, it will be like;
$this->Output(/kuitit/); //or try ("/kuitit/")

Answer 12

This worked for me, saving to child dir(temp_pdf) under the root:
$sFilePath = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '//temp_pdf/file.pdf' ;
$pdf->Output( $sFilePath , 'F');
Remember to make the dir writeable.