Dompdf

[stijn0713]

Anybody experience with dompdf? 

 

i follow the basics to make a pdf from html using 

$dompdf = new DOMPDF();
$dompdf->load_html($html);
$dompdf->render();
$dompdf->stream("factuur.pdf");

It seems i can't open a pdf created with dompdf if i echo something or if there is html besides the html contained by $html. anybody know why?

[DavidAM]

Never worked with it. But it is likely that it is sending the raw PDF data with a proper Content-Type header. If you send any other output, then the data received by the browser is NOT a valid PDF file.

 

If you want to modify or augment the output, you should probably load the HTML into a DOM object, do the updates in the DOM, generate the DOM to an HTML string, then load THAT string into the DOMPDF.

 

Edit: Unless, of course, DOMPDF, has methods for allowing you to do the changes directly to that object.

[stijn0713]

i guess you are right, but i don't understand the solution. 

 

I opened the pdf file with notepad, and the problem is that all the html content is included before the actual %PDF-1.3 line. 

 

I guess a solution would be to put the intended content with the css in an outputbuffer and write in to a file, and then in that file i make pdf? (is this similiar to what you meant DavidAM?)