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.
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I want to create a pdf page from html file in Laravel but I do not know how to do it. You can help me
https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-dompdf
// Import in top of controller file
use Barryvdh\DomPDF\Facade as PDF;
// use below code to generate and download pdf file
$pdf = PDF::loadView('bladefilename', ['arrayname' => $array]);
return $pdf->download('filename.pdf');
Write Above code in the controller file
In Blade file (HTML file) set array data.
Show Below Link : https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-dompdf/issues/126
I know I am a little bit late but hopefully this will help someone.
There are 2 ways:
Create HTML page and use jspdf to print this page. The best way is to use html2pdf: https://github.com/eKoopmans/html2pdf.js
You can use this one to convert html to canvas and print to pdf. All css will be kept but you have to change the page to fix the space between pages as there may be some bad cut at the end of each page.
Print the page using latex. You have to use laravel latex compiler: https://github.com/fvhockney/latexcompiler
It is a little bit harder to styling the page but there is no problem with paging.
i might not be clear with my question title but here is the code..
<?php
$filename = 'myfile.htm';
ob_start();
<?PHP
<div id='test'>my original value</div>
?>
$htmlcontent = ob_get_contents();
file_put_contents("$filename", $htmlcontent);
ob_end_clean();
so this code will eventually create a new file and with the text 'my original value
is it possible if i want to alter the div's value through javascript/jquery before it could be transferred to the file?
why am i doing this? because i would eventually be adding a jquery graph library and want to save it to the file..
later using wkhtmltopdf to generate a pdf version of that html page..
No; You'll have to display the page along with all of the javascript you want to use. Then you create a form to gather the contents of the page (after its been manipulated by your graph library) and post it back to PHP, where it can be saved to file.
Hmm, well you can try one thing. I don't know how the content of myfile.htm looks like, but you can try to load this content with something like DOMDocument, use the loadHTML method, and getElementById.
so:
<div id="test1">value</div>
could be retrieved with
// pseudo
$dom = new DOMDocument::loadHTML('myfile.htm');
$dom->getElemenyById('test1');
$dom->saveHTMLFile('etc ..
execute a $.post and 'manipulate' the existing myfile.htm and overwrite it.
cheers
I am new to php and I want to create an php engine which changes the web content of a webpage with PHP with the use of data in mysql. For example (changing the order of navigation links on a webpage with the order of highest click count) I am not sure how PHP will read the HTML file and change the elements in the HTML file and also output the HTML file with the changes. Is this possible?
I am not quite sure why you would want to generate the html, read it, change it and then output it. It seems to be a lot easier to just generate it the way you want to in the first place.
I am not sure how PHP will read the HTML file and change the elements in the HTML file and also output the HTML file with the changes. Is this possible?
You could use file_get_contents:
$html = file_get_contents($url);
Then use a html-parser like Simple HTML DOM Parser, change what you want to do and output it.
If you want to modify HTML structure, use ganon - HTML DOM parser for PHP
include('path/ganon.php');
// Parse the google code website into a DOM
$html = file_get_dom('http://code.google.com/');
foreach($html('p[class]') as $element) {
echo $element->class, "<br>\n";
}
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.
What would be the simplest, shortest way to turn a text file into a PDF file with PHP? With some basic example code if possible.
I've seen this but the examples don't show how to use a text file as input.
http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/book.pdf.php
Thanks
TCPDF and FPDF can both render PDF output. If you're on a Linux system, you could also call the system's ghostscript to do it.
You'll definitely need a library to write PDFs. I'd say try FPDF.
TCPDF is the best way to convert text or HTML to PDF.
http://www.tecnick.com/public/code/cp_dpage.php?aiocp_dp=tcpdf
Throwing Zend_Pdf into the ring as well.
And a somewhat old tutorial to get you started in addition to the extensive docs in the ZF manual:
http://devzone.zend.com/article/2525
You can use MPDF.
I wrote a smalll instruction:
1) download Full version(http://www.mpdf1.com/mpdf/index.php?page=Download ) and extract inside anyfolder
2) create sample.php in anyfolder and insert like this:
<?php
include('./mpdf.php');
$mpdf=new mPDF();
$mpdf->WriteHTML('<div style="color:yellow;">SAMPLE TEXT, WITH HTML TAGS Too!</div>');
$mpdf->Output(); die('');
?>
3) then open sample.php in your browser to see the result!
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