使用PHP将MySQL数据库表内容导出到PDF文件

Question

How to export MySQL database table contents on to a PDF file. It has to be displayed in the website as download/print data . When the customer click on that he/she has to get the PDF opened or an option to download the PDF with all the contents of the table using php.

Answer 1

    <?php
require('fpdf17/fpdf.php');
$pdf=new FPDF();
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->SetFont('Arial','B',10);
$pdf->Ln();
$pdf->Ln();
$pdf->SetFont('times','B',10);
$pdf->Cell(25,7,"Stud ID");
$pdf->Cell(30,7,"Student Name");
$pdf->Cell(40,7,"Address");
$pdf->Cell(30,7,"Class");
$pdf->Cell(30,7,"Phone No");
$pdf->Cell(30,7,"E-mail");
$pdf->Ln();
$pdf->Cell(450,7,"----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------");
$pdf->Ln();

        include ('db.php');
        $sql = "SELECT studid,name,address,class,phone,email FROM studinfo";
        $result = mysql_query($sql);

        while($rows=mysql_fetch_array($result))
        {
            $studid = $rows[0];
            $name = $rows[1];
            $address = $rows[2];
            $class = $rows[3];
            $phone = $rows[4];
            $email = $rows[5];
            $pdf->Cell(25,7,$studid);
            $pdf->Cell(30,7,$name);
            $pdf->Cell(40,7,$address);
            $pdf->Cell(30,7,$class);
            $pdf->Cell(30,7,$phone);
            $pdf->Cell(30,7,$email); 
            $pdf->Ln(); 
        }
$pdf->Output();
?>

Answer 2

You should make use of PDF creator libraries like:

1. FPDF
2. TCPDF
3. EzPDF

All three are easy to learn in the order I've put. The documentation of FPDF and EzPDF are very neat and clean. But TCPDF Documentation is not that readable.

Answer 3

You can use http://www.tcpdf.org/ to create your own PDF. The examples and the doc tabs will help you ^^ ( http://www.tcpdf.org/doc/code/classTCPDF.html for all the methods)

You can create a HTML table will all your data and put it in your PDF using the WriteHTML() method.

Answer 4

Take a look at http://www.tcpdf.org/ . I never heard about out of box way to print mysql table data into PDF, but with TCPDF you can programmatically build a PDF file with table filled with data inside it. It also allows to output document created on the fly easily into a browser.