How can i generate pdf reports using symfony2?

Question

I have created an examanition module which provides the report card to the user as an HTML (twig) format. Now I want the user should be able to save the report card as pdf. I have added a button as Save ReportCard and I want to write the code in my controller to generate this pdf file with same content as of the html. I googled and found these links:

1. PDF Lib 8
2. Generate PDFs with PHP

These links where great but I couldnt get how can i use them in symfony2. I am new to symfony2 and Php. Can anyonw help me here with the same.

Answer 1

Another solution, which is more painless than create a whole custom PDF, would be to create a print css. then get the whole DOM with a lib like wkhtml2pdf. There is also a Lib from knplabs https://github.com/KnpLabs/snappy and the bundle https://github.com/KnpLabs/KnpSnappyBundle

i often use this for tricky html5 projects. with the javascript support from wkhtml2pdf you can add svg's and other pretty things to your pdf...