Output to PDF - Page 2

allworknoplay · 04-02-2009, 03:43 PM

Correct. See, my issue is this. I have a bunch of flash graphs, and dynamically generated content.

So pretend you are looking at your IRA/401K statement with all sorts of data, all neatly laid out.

If the user wishes to "save" that page, there will be a PDF button that they click on, and save the current data as PDF. But I'd like to keep the layout of the webpage in the PDF too.

I just don't want it to save a bunch of numbers like it would if it were a CSV file.

So conceptually, I'm having a hard time figuring out how to get the entire webpage into the PDF....

It's almost as if I have to somehow capture every HTML tag, put it into an array, and HOPE that there's a function that can read the HTML tags and somehow put that into PDF format for saving...

CoryMathews · 04-03-2009, 03:55 AM

Ah yes. My code fails. I understood the question correctly just gave a wrong code snippet. I had that on my list of snippets to test and I had already tested

header("Content-type: application/vnd.ms-word");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment;Filename=hello.doc");

And it would make the user be prompted to save the page as a word doc. So I figured the same would go with the .pdf, but I was wrong.

xenon · 04-03-2009, 06:34 AM

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Originally Posted by CoryMathews

Ah yes. My code fails. I understood the question correctly just gave a wrong code snippet. I had that on my list of snippets to test and I had already tested

header("Content-type: application/vnd.ms-word");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment;Filename=hello.doc");

And it would make the user be prompted to save the page as a word doc. So I figured the same would go with the .pdf, but I was wrong.

Yes, but what you posted won't work either (unless you echo an existing .doc's file contents). Otherwise, you would need to add alot of headers (as in header blocks in the DOC standard created by Microsoft, not PHP headers), plus other instructions (or use COM, I think that would work). But that's not really the request here, the post is about creating PDF documents from PHP without any use of third party software.

CoryMathews · 04-03-2009, 12:17 PM

Nope it works, tested and implemented it already.