Create a PDF file with PHP

Question

I want to create pdf file from my web page written by php . My document must produce from mysql and produce pdf file.I want to be to save this pdf and to read.Please give me code sample.

Answer 1

Using the TCPDF library:

<?
require_once("tcpdf/tcpdf.php");
$pdf = new TCPDF();

// set document information
$pdf->SetCreator(PDF_CREATOR);
$pdf->SetAuthor("my name");
$pdf->SetTitle("my doc");
$pdf->SetSubject("x");
$pdf->SetKeywords("a, b, c");


// set default header data
$pic = "/gfx/header.png";
$pdf->SetHeaderData(realpath($pic), "25", "Title");

// set header and footer fonts
$pdf->setHeaderFont(array(PDF_FONT_NAME_MAIN, '', PDF_FONT_SIZE_MAIN));
$pdf->setFooterFont(array(PDF_FONT_NAME_DATA, '', PDF_FONT_SIZE_DATA));

//set margins
$pdf->SetMargins(PDF_MARGIN_LEFT, PDF_MARGIN_TOP, PDF_MARGIN_RIGHT);
$pdf->SetHeaderMargin(PDF_MARGIN_HEADER);
$pdf->SetFooterMargin(PDF_MARGIN_FOOTER);

    //set auto page breaks
 $pdf->SetAutoPageBreak(TRUE, PDF_MARGIN_BOTTOM);

 //set image scale factor
 $pdf->setImageScale(PDF_IMAGE_SCALE_RATIO);

 //set some language-dependent strings
 $pdf->setLanguageArray($l);

 //initialize document
 $pdf->AliasNbPages();

 // add a page
 $pdf->AddPage();

 // ---------------------------------------------------------

 // set font
 $pdf->SetFont("helvetica", "", 12);

 // set a background color
 $pdf->SetFillColor(230, 240, 255, true);


$pdf->SetFont("", "b", 16);
$pdf->Write(16, "some text\n", "", 0, 'C');

$pdf->Output("filename.pdf", "I");
?>

Answer 2

I you already have an HTML page, the fastest way for you might be to use a tool like HTML2PDF to "convert" that HTML data to PDF, instead of generating a PDF file "from scratch".

Quoting that page :

It allows the conversion of valid HTML 4.01 in PDF format, and is distributed under LGPL.

This library has been designed to handle mainly TABLE intertwined to generate invoices delivery, and other official documents. It does not yet have all the tags.

There are some example of HTML, and the corresponding PDF files, so you can see what's capable of.