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
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Previously i was working with dompdf in laravel application to generate invoices.. Its taking time in generating invoices but working perfectly . Below is the code of dompdf to generate invoice by just sending the view.
PDF::setOptions(['dpi' => 150, 'defaultFont' => 'sans-serif']);
// pass view file
view()->share('account_invoice',$account_invoice);
view()->share('account_invoice_item',$account_invoice_item);
$pdf = PDF::loadView('admin/invoice/InvoiceTemplate/template');
But now i am working with FPDF. Is there anything like dompdf to pass view to generate PDF.
$pdf = new FPDF();
View::make('admin/invoice/InvoiceTemplate/template');
I know my code is incorrect for FPDF but any idea how can i pass view to FPDF to generate pdf so i can send it by attactment.
It looks like your goal is to dump raw html onto the pdf and have it be formatted accordingly? Take a look at this tutorial, it might help, but I'd actually recommend a different approach.
Basically, fpdf is has no html writer built in, at least none as far as I'm aware. So I'd recommend a pdf writer with better out of the box support for your needs. Take a look at Snappy and wkhtmltopdf. With Snappy and wkhtmltopdf you can pretty easily generate pdfs on the fly by passing it html, as you're attempting to in your examples.
<?php
use Knp\Snappy\Pdf;
$snappy = new Pdf('/path/to/wkhtmltopdf');
$snappy->generateFromHtml(View::make('admin/invoice/InvoiceTemplate/template'), '/tmp/invoice.pdf');
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 am done with generating PDF file using FPDF in php. But the problem is how to open this pdf without the Save As option? I want to display the pdf document in the browser.
http://www.fpdf.org/en/doc/output.htm
Syntax: Output([string name] , string dest) , use I as Destination and fdpf will try to show it in the browser, if browser plugings and so on enable it
You cannot force this display, as it is up to the user to choose to display the PDF inline or systematically save them. I prefer the second option...
Now, there is a JavaScript / HTML 5 project (experimental!) to display PDF without plugin, so perhaps you can try that.
Even when using fpdf passing the output to the browser, I believe its still up to the user if they open or save it.
A solution would be to use some kind of PDF viewer, for example http://view.samurajdata.se/
Try this $pdf->Output('I', 'filename.pdf')
See the reference http://www.fpdf.org/en/doc/output.htm
Set header's content-type to 'application/pdf'. Then, most browsers will try to open it and show in-browser (or at least ask user to save or open file)
Your browser must have pdf plugin installed. If you havent done so install latest version of Acrobat Reader. If you are using fpdf, output the string instead of forcing download
For details
http://www.fpdf.org/en/doc/output.htm
Try echoing the PDF instead to using header function. The header function will force the browser to download. The echo 'might' show the pdf.
I need to export html page to pdf file with everything that's written in it, after I press submit button. It will open new page, with info, and I need for script to automatically make .pdf file (already uploaded to webserver), and get the link from file. Could you give me some easy example (if available, without any plugins, or other features that I must download, I would prefer clean PHP).
Just try this
HTML to PDF with PHP
Using open-source HTML2FPDF project
This solution uses HTML2PDF project (sourceforge.net/projects/html2fpdf/). It simply gets a HTML text and generates a PDF file. This project is based upon FPDF script (www.fpdf.org), which is pure PHP, not using the PDFlib or other third party library. Download [HTML2PDF][1], add it to your projects and you can start coding.
Code example
require("html2fpdf.php");
$htmlFile = "your link";
$buffer = file_get_contents($htmlFile);
$pdf = new HTML2FPDF('P', 'mm', 'Letter');
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->WriteHTML($buffer);
$pdf->Output('test.pdf', 'F');
I'm trying to user HTML2FPDF (http://html2fpdf.sourceforge.net/) to create a PDF of a page, but I can't seem to get it to work properly.
My page consists of jQuery to show a graph. I want the graph and other text on the page to be exported as a PDF.
http://portal.flyingstartlifestyle.360southclients.com/leanne/leanne.php <- the graph with the html2fpdf code at the bottom of the page.
HTML2FPDF code:
function createPDF() {
define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__).'/');
require(ABSPATH.'classes/pdf/html2fpdf.php');
$pdf = new HTML2FPDF();
$pdf->AddPage();
$html = ob_get_contents();
//$html = htmlspecialchars($html);
if ($html) {
$fileName = "testing.pdf";
$pdf->WriteHTML($html);
$pdf->Output("pdfs/".$fileName);
echo "<p>PDF file is generated successfully! Click here to open it.</p>";
} else {
echo "<p>There has been an error in creating your PDF.</p>";
};
};
If I unhide the line "$html = htmlspecialchars($html);" it prints the pdf the text of the page, otherwise it creates an empty PDF. Any ideas how I can transfer my graph to a PDF?
Cheers
A few years back, I've been beating my head against the wall trying to convert HTML into PDF for days. What I wanted to do was really simple - make an invoice for customers into a PDF file. An image (logo) up on top, a few paragraphs, and a table with a list of charges.
The hole shaped like my head on the wall is still there. All of the free libraries that convert things to PDF - they all suck. I found one that sucks the least, it's DomPDF. At least that one ended up doing the job, after a week of suffering and debugging. It's not fast by any means, though (if you want to generate a complex PDF, you might want to do it off-thread).
My page consists of jQuery to show a graph. I want the graph and other text on the page to be exported as a PDF.
jQuery is interpreted by the browser and not by the server. When you send the HTML to be rendered into PDF, it will not run the Javascript. You'll need to find a way to actually generate the image some other way.
I guess I could see a situation where you could use ajax to make a remote call and send all of the html that the js sees.
The remote call then would write a file of that html. The remote call would send back a file name for the pdf to be generated.
Your js then could provide a link to the processing page of the html2pdf that references the file created from the remote call.
This would work, but it might be a bit much.
Regards.