In this tutorial, I will show you how to convert HTML to pdf in PHP or how to transfer HTML to pdf using PHP by following simple steps. No need to be expert in PHP or HTML but little bit PHP and HTML knowledge is required.
I am explaining to you in very basic language. Please follow the instructions.There are too many scripts are available on the internet to convert pdf to HTML in PHP. I have tried most of them and find the best one which is “TCPDF”.Why TCPDF is the best?It is free and many functions are available in this script. Also, functions are very easy to understand and implement. TCPDF is user-friendly and coding is very easy to understand. The main advantage of this script is a page break function.
When your pdf pages are more than one then it works very charmingly. It will arrange all the design of your HTML in a very good manner.
Rather other scripts can’t do it very well. Another advantage is the HTML table structure(tr-td). This script makes it very simple and attractive.When I tried other scripts there are too many issues occurs like:. When PDF goes to the next page then the design is messing up. One night in new york movie. Can’t fix proper table structure.
Margin issue. etcNow I will show you how to set up all the things for transfer HTML to pdf using PHP and HTML. Follow the steps for convert HTML to PDF in PHP Step 1: Download “TCPDF” scriptFirst of all, you have to download the TCPDF library because we need this library to execute the code. You can download the library from click below button. Step 2: Unzip and Upload “TCPDF” folder to your serverThen you have to unzip the downloaded file, You will see one folder name “TCPDF”. Now upload this folder in your root directory of the server using FTP (Filezilla).
If you are work in localhost then you can copy the folder and paste it in this path (xampp - htdocs - project name - paste it) Step 3: Now create “index.php” file and put the below code in this file.$pdf = '// You can put your HTML code here Lorem Ipsum.
Want to improve this question? So it's for Stack Overflow.Closed 3 years ago.I have an HTML (not XHTML) document that renders fine in Firefox 3 and IE 7. It uses fairly basic CSS to style it and renders fine in HTML.I'm now after a way of converting it to PDF. I have tried:.: it had huge problems with tables.
I factored out my large nested tables and it helped (before it was just consuming up to 128M of memory then dying-thats my limit on memory in php.ini) but it makes a complete mess of tables and doesn't seem to get images. The tables were just basic stuff with some border styles to add some lines at various points;.: I actually had better luck with this.
It rendered some of the images (all the images are Google Chart URLs) and the table formatting was much better but it seemed to have some complexity problem I haven't figured out yet and kept dying with unknown nodetype errors. Not sure where to go from here; and.: this seems to work fine on basic HTML but has almost no support for CSS whatsoever so you have to do everything in HTML (I didn't realize it was still 2001 in Htmldoc-land.) so it's useless to me.I tried a Windows app called Html2Pdf Pilot that actually did a pretty decent job but I need something that at a minimum runs on Linux and ideally runs on-demand via PHP on the Webserver.What am I missing, or how can I resolve this issue? Important:Please note that this answer was written in 2009 and it might not be the most cost-effective solution today in 2019.
Online alternatives are better today at this than they were back then.Here are some online services that you can use:.Have a look at.It's definitely the best HTML/CSS to PDF converter out there, although it's not free (But hey, your programming might not be free either, so if it saves you 10 hours of work, you're home free (since you also need to take into account that the alternative solutions will require you to setup a dedicated server with the right software)Oh yeah, did I mention that this is the first (and probably only) HTML2PDF solution that does full? If you use wkhtmltopdf (at least on my system, XAMPP on Windows 7 64-bit), in all cases I tried,.gif images fail to appear in the PDF file. I tried a number of workarounds suggested in various places, such as including 'width' and 'height', and writing the URI's according to different conventions. Nothing I tried ever caused the.gif's to appear (in particular, not even the 'width' and 'height' suggestion, which I tried both using inline styles and using the archaic, raw 'width' and 'height' HTML attributes).
However, swapping the images to.jpg worked on the first try.–Nov 18 '11 at 5:48. After some investigation and general hair-pulling the solution seems to be. Did a terrible job with tables, borders and even moderately complex layout and seems reasonably robust but is almost completely CSS-ignorant and I don't want to go back to doing HTML layout without CSS just for that program.HTML2PDF looked the most promising but I kept having this weird error about null reference arguments to nodetype. I finally found the solution to this. Basically, PHP 5.1.x worked fine with regex replaces (pregreplace.) on strings of any size. PHP 5.2.1 introduced a php.ini config directive called pcre.backtracklimit.
What this config parameter does is limits the string length for which matching is done. Why this was introduced I don't know. The default value was chosen as 100,000.
Why such a low value? Again, no idea.A, which is still open almost two years later.What's horrifying about this is that when the limit is exceeded, the replace just silently fails. At least if an error had been raised and logged you'd have some indication of what happened, why and what to change to fix it. But no.So I have a 70k HTML file to turn into PDF. It requires the following php.ini settings:. pcre.backtracklimit = 2000000; # probably more than I need but that's OK. memorylimit = 1024M; # yes, one gigabyte; and.
maxexecutiontime = 600; # yes, 10 minutes.Now the astute reader may have noticed that my HTML file is smaller than 100k. The only reason I can guess as to why I hit this problem is that html2pdf does a conversion into xhtml as part of the process. Perhaps that took me over (although nearly 50% bloat seems odd). Whatever the case, the above worked.Now, html2pdf is a resource hog. My 70k file takes approximately 5 minutes and at least 500-600M of RAM to create a 35 page PDF file.
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Not quick enough (by far) for a real-time download unfortunately and the memory usage puts the memory usage ratio in the order of 1000-to-1 (600M of RAM for a 70k file), which is utterly ridiculous.Unfortunately, that's the best I've come up with.