Hi
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:
Code:
<?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:
Code:
<?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 |
