Generate PDF

Posted on 16th Feb 2014 07:03 pm by admin

Hi guys,

I would like to know if there is a way to generate pdf when clicking on a link. In fact, I would like to be able to click on a link and generate a pdf file with information from my database, say a profile of a client for example or an invoice.

I was able to generate a pdf using a basic tutorial. Here is the code:
Code: <?php
$mypdf = PDF_new();
PDF_open_file($mypdf, "");
PDF_begin_page($mypdf, 595, 842);
$myfont = PDF_findfont($mypdf, "Times-Roman", "host", 0);
PDF_setfont($mypdf, $myfont, 10);
PDF_show_xy($mypdf, "Sample PDF, constructed by PHP in real-time.", 50, 750);
PDF_show_xy($mypdf, "Made with the PDF libraries for PHP.", 50, 730);
PDF_end_page($mypdf);
PDF_close($mypdf);

$mybuf = PDF_get_buffer($mypdf);
$mylen = strlen($mybuf);
header("Content-type: application/pdf");
header("Content-Length: $mylen");
header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=gen01.pdf");
print $mybuf;

PDF_delete($mypdf);
?>
But
1) it's seems to be pretty hard to have something that looks nice if I have to specify each item it location with X and Y
2) I have in the middle of the page: www.pdflib.com. I guess I have to pay for a licence to get rid of that but I went to the website and it's kind of expensive for me.

Do you know how an easier way to generate a pdf from my website and without having this "www.pdflib.com"? Is there another script out there or another lib?

Thanks

Your Answer:

Login to answer

Other forums

Character increment
Hi,

I am facing a scenario like above,but in my case i want to show up like Col A,Col B etc..

Why does first ever HttpSendRequest take longer?
I promise this isn't as simple as it sounds. I'm wondering why the the first ever call to HttpSendRe

Xacute search within SQL results
I have a query that is pulling data, and I want to return a specific value from the results of that

Pagination
Hi All,

I think I'm finally getting somewhere with pagination!

I can now submit a quer

help with contest script
I would like to code a contest script to my site but i don't know how. Could someone just give me pu

Need help with a mail notify function
I was tasked with setting up a site that's been prewritten. The site is basically a form that captur

Click counter to ignore traffic from search bots
I have a click counter on my site that...well, counts the number of clicks a link gets on the frontp

PHP hyperlinks generator - HELP plz
Hi

I need some help to get this done using php:


1 - I have few hyperlinks say 500

Spaghetti Code
So.

I've pretty much reached the point where I have so many isset s on one page that I can't

Time-based image rotation script
I'm trying to write a PHP script that rotates an image based on what time of day it is. I want the