soonguy Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 Hi I want to offer users the option of saving a particular webpage report as a PDF file. (Our server is running PHP 4.4.7) I've looked at several of the options available, and find them fiendishly complicated, or have not managed to get them to work. A friend gave me some simple PHP code to try. The following does convert the page to PDF as soon as it is opened in the browser - which is not want I want. Plus, it just puts all the html code for the page into the PDF: <?php ob_start(); ?> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <title>Tips</title> </head> <body> Testing the pdf converter </body> </html> <?php # grab the HTML above as a string from the buffer $html = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean(); # discard the buffer - we have it already in $html and don't want to output it to the browser - this would send headers and cause errors. # now the pdf include( 'class.ezpdf.php' ); $pdf = new Cezpdf( 'a4', 'P' ); //A4 Portrait $pdf -> ezSetCmMargins( 2, 1.5, 1, 1); $pdf->selectFont( '.Helvetica.afm' ); $pdf->ezText( $html, 10 ); $pdf->ezStream(); ?> What I really want is a button that will convert the page, iwhen someone wants to. And, ideally, will just offer to save the PDF as a file, rather than opening it in Acrobat. So I tried the following, but it does not work: <?php ob_start(); ?> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <title>Tips</title> </head> <body> <form action="pdftest7.php" method="get"> Testing the pdf converter <input type="submit" value="save this page as pdf"> </form> </body> </html> <? $html = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean(); if (array_key_exists('pdf', $_GET)) { include( 'class.ezpdf.php' ); $pdf = new Cezpdf( 'a4', 'P' ); //A4 Portrait $pdf -> ezSetCmMargins( 2, 1.5, 1, 1); $pdf->selectFont( './Helvetica.afm' ); $pdf->ezText( $html, 10 ); $pdf->ezStream();} else { echo $html; } ?> Thanks for any wisdom on this! Best wishes Tony Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/74856-converting-a-webpage-to-pdf-on-the-fly/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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