PHP HTML generating PDF

Feb 24 posted in PHP (RSS), comments.

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Sometimes we need to use scripts to create dynamic PDF documents, here are some free open source PHP script to generate PDF method.

1. FPDF: PDF generator

FPDF is a pure PHP class to generate PDF through the document, the method needs to generate content directly in the PHP code to specify, generate text, images, lines, etc., have their own ways. Here use FPDF to generate a "Hello World" of the PDF document:

<?php
require(‘fpdf.php’);

$pdf=new FPDF();
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->SetFont(‘Arial’,'B’,16);
$pdf->Cell(40,10,’Hello World!’);
$pdf->Output();
?>

To generate PDF documents, first of all we need to include the library file fpdf.php.

Then we need to create a FPDF object using the default constructor FPDF (), this structure can be three values that the page orientation (portrait or landscape), measurement unit, and the page size (A4, A5 ... ...), by default, page size is A4, units of measurement are millimeters.

It can also be clearly specified:

$pdf=new FPDF(‘P’,'mm’,'A4′);

Then AddPage () function to add a page, the top left corner and the content of the page by default for the 1 cm margin, of course, we can use SetMargins () to change. To generate a text, we need to use the SetFont () to select a font and font size.

$pdf->SetFont(‘Arial’,'B’,16);

We use Cell () function to output a text. A Cell () is a rectangular area containing the text.
Finally, we close this file and put it out, this is the use of the $ pdf-> Output ();, we can also specify where we want to use the file name, such as the $ pdf-> Output ('sample.pdf ');

Here is a brief analysis of an example, if you want to get more help, you can browse: http://www.fpdf.org

2. HTML2FPDF: HTML to PDF conversion

HTML2FPDF is a PHP class library using the FPDF library HTML files into PDF files. The library consists of three categories namely, PDF format, HTML2FPDF and FPDF composition.

Here are a used to convert HTML HTML2FPDF

<?php
require('html2fpdf.php');

$pdf=new HTML2FPDF();
$pdf->AddPage();
$fp = fopen("sample.html","r");
$strContent = fread($fp, filesize("sample.html"));
fclose($fp);
$pdf->WriteHTML($strContent);
$pdf->Output("sample.pdf");
echo "PDF file is generated successfully!";
?>

First, we need to include library files html2fpdf.php, use HTML2FPDF () constructor to construct an example.

Then use $ pdf-> AddPage () for the new PDF to add a new page. Then we can use the native PHP function to read a file operation HTML file, the contents of this HTML document passed to the function $ pdf-> WriteHTML ($ strContent), HTML content that was written to the PDF file in the Finally, the same operation and FPDF by output (), file output.

This is just a simple example, if you want to get more help, you can visit: http://html2fpdf.sourceforge.net

Here is the example code for all to download

Attached: php generate PDF commonly used class

FPDF

FPDF this PHP Class allows you to use pure PHP (or rather is not required to use PDFlib) to generate PDF files. It has features that include: choice of unit size, page format and margins; header and footer management; automatic paging; automatic text wrapping and alignment; supports JPEG and PNG image formats; support coloring and file Hyperlink; support TrueType, Type1 and encoding; support page compression.

HTML2PDF

HTML2PDF can transform an HTML text into a printer-friendly PDF file. This PHP script is built upon FPDF PHP script.

TCPDF

TCPDF is used to quickly generate PDF files PHP5 function package. TCPDF based on FPDF be extended and improved. Support UTF-8, Unicode, HTML and XHTML.

html2ps

html2ps able to with a picture, complex tables (including rowspan / colspan), layer / div and css style of the HTML into Postscript and PDF. html2ps on CSS2.1 support is very good and well compatible with incorrect HMTL. It may even be able to convert almost like using CSS designed web site msn.com.

HTML_ToPDF

HTML_ToPDF able to convert any HTML document on any platform, and the printer interface formats are the same PDF document. It includes support for image conversion, use style sheets to customize the PDF files and error handling.

cPdfWriter

cPdfWriter is able to output PDF documents PHP5 class. Based on TCPDF, FPDF, and other related scripts.

dompdf

dompdf is an HTML to PDF conversion tool. Its core is a follow most of CSS2.1 style Rendering engine. dompdf with style-driven, it can download and read external style, the style of individual HTML element tags and style attributes. It also supports projects when the majority of HTML attributes.