I want to be able to generate and save a PDF version of a PHP page. I found out, on Stackoverflow, that the most recommended is wkhtmltopdf: http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/
However, I don't have any Shell or binary knowledge; I only know HTML and PHP.
Could anyone CLEARLY guide me on how to get a php page generate a PDF document using wkhtmltopdf (using only FTP and PHP)?
Did you read wiki section of the project homepage? It has IntegrationWithPhp page. Hope that thelps.
Read comments to see how to use the class thats found in the wiki:
$html = file_get_contents("http://www.google.com");
//echo $html;
$pdf = new WKPDF();
$pdf->set_html($html);
$pdf->render();
$pdf->output(WKPDF::$PDF_EMBEDDED,'sample.pdf');
Related
I want to convert any pdf,docx,doc file into html code using php. with same style as in pdf. I am not getting proper solution.
Config::set('pdftohtml.bin', 'C:/poppler-0.37/bin/pdftohtml.exe');
// change pdfinfo bin location
Config::set('pdfinfo.bin', 'C:/poppler-0.37/bin/pdfinfo.exe');
// initiate
$pdf = new Gufy\PdfToHtml\Pdf($item);
// convert to html and return it as [Dom Object](https://github.com/paquettg/php-html-parser)
$html = $pdf->html();
Not working for me.
I had a similar problem and i found a github that i used with word docs. It worked fairly good then but i havent tested it of late. try it.
https://github.com/benbalter/Convert-Word-Documents-to-HTML
I think that this post could help you in a first time. With this one, you'll be able to convert any pdf into HTML code using PHP.
After this, you can use the help provided by this post to convert .doc and .docx to PDF using PHP.
I think that you can now built a function for each document extension that you want to convert into HTML.
Good luck.
I've come across a web service which presents an API for converting documents. I haven't tested it very thoroughly but it does seem to produce decent results at converting Word to HTML:
https://cloudconvert.org/
I've run into this weird issue with PDF file handling. Not sure if SO is the right place to ask this, but I couldn't find any specific sites for this. I hope that someone can shed some light on the issue.
This happens with the following specific process, if some of steps are omitted - the issue is not observed.
I have a PHP application that serves PDF files to users. These files are created by authors in MS Word 2007, then printed to protected PDF (using pdf995, most likely, I can confirm if needed).
I'll call this initial PDF file as 'source' hereinafter.
Upon request, the source file is processed in PHP the following way:
we decrypt it using qpdf:
qpdf --decrypt "source.pdf" "tmp_output.pdf"
Then we add security label / wartermark to it, encrypt and output to browser using mPDF 6.0:
$mpdf = new mPDF();
$mpdf->SetImportUse();
$pagecount = $mpdf->SetSourceFile($fpath);
if ($pagecount) {
for ($i=1;$i<=$pagecount;$i++){
$tplId = $mpdf->ImportPage($i);
$mpdf->UseTemplate($tplId);
$html = '[security label / watermark contents...]';
$mpdf->WriteHTML($html);
}
}
$mpdf->SetProtection(array('copy','print'), '', 'password',128);
$mpdf->Output('final_output.pdf','I');
With the exact steps described above, images in the output that were pasted in the Word doc appear as follows:
In the source PDF, tmp_output (qpdf decrypted file) the pasted images look correct:
The distortion doesn't take place if any of the following occurs:
Word doc printed to PDF without protection
mPDF output is not protected.
As you can see there too many factors, so I don't know where to look for a bug.
Each component works correctly on it's own and I cannot find any info on the issue. Any insights are greatly appreciated.
EDIT 1
After some more testing, it appears that this only happens to screenshots taken from web browser, Windows explorer, MS Word. Cannot reproduce this with screenshots from Gimp.
It appears that something along the way attempts to convert white to alpha and fails.
The current version (6.1) of Mpdf has a bug which does not handle escaped PDF strings (imported via FPDI) correct if they should be encrypted.
A pull request, which fixes this issue is available here.
I am working on a Symfony 1.4 project. I need to make a PDF download link for a (yet to be) generated voucher and I have to say, I am a bit confused. I already have the HTML/CSS for the voucher, I created the download button in the right view, but I don't know where to go from there.
Use Mpdf to create the pdf file
http://www.mpdf1.com/
+1 with wkhtmltopdf
I'd even recommand the snappy library.
If you use composer, you can even get the wkhtmltopdf binaries automatically
Having used wkhtmltopdf for a while I've moved off it as 1) it has some serious bugs and 2) ongoing development has slowed down. I moved over to PhantomJS which is proving to be much better in terms of functionality and effectiveness.
Once you've got something like wkhtmltopdf or PhantomJS on your machine you need to generate the HTML page and pass that along to it. I'll give you an example assuming you use PhantomJS.
Initially set what every request parameters you need to for the template.
$this->getRequest->setParamater([some parameter],[some value]);
Then call the function getPresentation() to generate the HTML from a template. This will return the resulting HTML for a specific module and action.
$html = sfContext::getInstance()->getController()->getPresentation([module],[action]);
You'll need to replace the relative CSS paths with a absolute CSS path in the HTML file. For example by running preg_replace.
$html_replaced = preg_replace('/"\/css/','"'.sfConfig('sf_web_dir').'/css',$html);
Now write the HTML page to file and convert to a PDF.
$fp = fopen('export.html','w+');
fwrite($fp,$html_replaced);
fclose($fp)
exec('/path/to/phantomjs/bin/phantomjs /path/to/phantomjs/examples/rasterize.js /path/to/export.html /path/to/export.pdf "A3");
Now send the PDF to the user:
$this->getResponse()->clearHttpHeaders();
$this->getResponse()->setHttpHeader('Content-Description','File Transfer');
$this->getResponse()->setHttpHeader('Cache-Control','public, must-revalidate, max-age=0');
$this->getResponse()->setHttpHeader('Pragma: public',true);
$this->getResponse()->setHttpHeader('Content-Transfer-Encoding','binary');
$this->getResponse()->setHttpHeader('Content-length',filesize('/path/to/export.pdf'));
$this->getResponse()->setContentType('application/pdf');
$this->getResponse()->setHttpHeader('Content-Disposition','attachment; filename=export.pdf');
$this->getResponse()->setContent(readfile('/path/to/export.pdf'));
$this->getResponse()->sendContent();
You do need to set the headers otherwise the browser does odd things. The filename for the generated HTML file and export should be unique to avoid the situation of two people generating PDF vouchers at the same time clashing. You can use something like sha1(time()) to add a randomised hash to a standard name e.g. 'export_'.sha1(time());
Use wkhtmltopdf, if possible. It is by far the best html2pdf converter a php coder can use.
And then do something like this (not tested, but should be pretty close):
public function executeGeneratePdf(sfWebRequest $request)
{
$this->getContext()->getResponse()->clearHttpHeaders();
$html = '*your html content*';
$pdf = new WKPDF();
$pdf->set_html($html);
$pdf->render();
$pdf->output(WKPDF::$PDF_EMBEDDED, 'whatever_name.pdf');
throw new sfStopException();
}
I have a website now and I want to create a button on it to convert this page to PDF.
Is there any code to make this happen? I cannot find it on the internet.
So I want to have a button and when I press on it it converts the page to a .PDF file.
I do not want to use a third party website to generate the PDF's. I want to use it for internal purposes to generate files with PHP. So I need the code what can make a PDF for each page.
I use wkhtmltopdf - works very well - http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ there is a PHP wrapper
Updated based on comments below on usage :
How to use the integration class:
require_once('wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf.php'); // Ensure this path is correct !
$html = file_get_contents("http://www.google.com");
$pdf = new WKPDF();
$pdf->set_html($html);
$pdf->render();
$pdf->output(WKPDF::$PDF_EMBEDDED,'sample.pdf');
Use FPDF. It's a well-respected PDF-generating library for PHP that is written in pure PHP (so installing it should be dead simple for you).
Try this:
http://www.macronimous.com/resources/Converting_HTML2PDF_using_PHP.asp
It will convert HTML to a PDF using FPDF and HTML2PDF class.
Also found this:
http://www.phpclasses.org/package/3168-PHP-Generate-PDF-documents-from-HTML-pages.html
When i start it's showing this error
<?php
$p = PDF_new();
?>
Fatal error: Call to undefined function PDF_new() in D:\wamp\www\upload.php on line 2
I am using Wamp Server. I tried in XAMPP also. Is there any directives i have to enable to execute the code ?
i suggest to you tcpdf. it was good for me.
some feature:
no external libraries are required
for the basic functions;
all standard page formats, custom
page formats, custom margins and
units of measure;
UTF-8 Unicode and Right-To-Left
languages;
I think http://www.fpdf.org/ is the best PDF library for PHP.
Download latest version from http://www.fpdf.org.
Put this library folder on your root server or in your project.
Create on test file named test.php & put below code in file as below.
<?php
include("fpdf/fpdf.php");
$pdf = new FPDF();
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->SetFont('Arial','B',36);
$pdf->Cell(40,10,'Hello World!');
$pdf->Output();
?>
It will create one pdf file with contents "Hello World!" in it.
You are done..