Output Buffer + Pdf - PHP
Question
I have a page that uses the glob function and file_get_contents to have a few html files and store them in the buffer.
So I want to convert this buffer ob_get_contents() to an pdf file.
What is the best way to do that? how?
Thanks in advance.
3 answers
solution1
2 ACCPTED 2012-09-30 16:55:18
For creating PDF files from HTML and CSS, check out DOMpdf .
While this solution doesn't support the full range of HTML and CSS and its rendering can be a pain sometimes, it has one advantage: it does not require any special binaries to be installed (like wkhtmltopdf). It should run on your average shared PHP hosting.
Usage example:
<?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");
?>
solution2
1 2012-09-30 16:23:23
why using the outputbuffer for this? you have it in variables using file_get_contents and can simply create your pdf with the data from the variables. when using ob_get_contents all it does is return the outputbuffer and what you normally do with the result is saving into a variable...
btw. you do want to convert html into pdf? If yes have a look at wkhtmltopdf
solution3
1 2012-09-30 16:51:44
If ob_get_contents contains html files they are so many solutions out there that can achieve what you want. I think you should look at the following
Example using Simple HTML 2 PDF using PHP
$html = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
$pdf = new HTML2FPDF();
$pdf->SetTopMargin(1);
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->WriteHTML($html);
$pdf->Output('test.pdf','D');
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