Jul 10, 2009
[HowTo] Convert HTML to PDF using PHP
In a recent project, I had to output to a PDF file as well as to the browser. For this purpose first I downloaded the library from here. Then this code:
<?php ob_start(); //Start buffering the output //your coding starts here .... .... ... ... //Coding ends here $html = ob_get_contents(); //dumb the buffer as a string in variable $html ob_flush(); //Output the buffer to browser //Start outputting to PDF define('HTML2FPDF_VERSION','3.0(beta)'); define('RELATIVE_PATH','fpdf/'); define('FPDF_FONTPATH','font/'); require_once(RELATIVE_PATH.'fpdf.php'); require_once(RELATIVE_PATH.'htmltoolkit.php'); require_once(RELATIVE_PATH.'html2fpdf.php'); $pdf = new HTML2FPDF(); $pdf->WriteHTML($html); $name="doc.pdf"; $pdf->Output($name); ?>
When you run this script, you’ll get a pdf file “doc.pdf” in your script directory with the output of the current script.
For outputting something else other than the current script:
<?php //Your code .... .... .... // To make a pdf file: $html= "<h1>hello</h1>"; //To add more html code use $html.= yourcode; in the next line define('HTML2FPDF_VERSION','3.0(beta)'); define('RELATIVE_PATH','fpdf/'); define('FPDF_FONTPATH','font/'); require_once(RELATIVE_PATH.'fpdf.php'); require_once(RELATIVE_PATH.'htmltoolkit.php'); require_once(RELATIVE_PATH.'html2fpdf.php'); $pdf = new HTML2FPDF(); $pdf->WriteHTML($html); $name="doc.pdf"; $pdf->Output($name); ?>
