How to generate pdf files on server side

[BigAndini]

Hi,

maybe somebody besides me is searching for a solution on how to generate pdf files on server side. Here is a small example that works for me. Maybe it finds its way to the readme. :)

$pdfView = new ViewModel();
# When the action can be found at:
# MyModule/MyController/mypdf
# the path to the according template would be:
# my-module/my-controller/mypdf
$pdfView->setTemplate('my-module/my-controller/mypdf');
$pdfView->setVariables(array(
    'somevar' => $somevar,
));
$pdfRenderer = $this->getServiceLocator()->get('ViewPdfRenderer');
$html = $pdfRenderer->getHtmlRenderer()->render($pdfView);
$pdfEngine = $pdfRenderer->getEngine();

$pdfEngine->load_html($html);
$pdfEngine->render();
$pdfContent = $pdfEngine->output();

# make sure to create public/pdf before
file_put_contents(getcwd().'/public/pdf/mypdf.pdf', $pdfContent);

greetings
Andi

P.S.: This is more an enhancement for the readme than a real issue, but I don't know how to change the issue type on github, yet.

[mlumbroso]

Thanks for this fully working example. This should definitely make its way to the readme :-)

Have you found a way to set option using this method? I wasn't able to change paperSize e.g. using the setOption technique.

[BigAndini]

Yes, anyhow we managed it to generate A4 instead of Letter PDFs. This is our ETicketService:

https://github.com/inbaz/ers/blob/master/module/PreReg/src/PreReg/Service/ETicketService.php

We set the option directly inside of the pdfEngine. There are still some errors in this code and some duplicate statements. The interesting part starts at line 348 where $paperSize is used again.

Does this help?

[mlumbroso]

Yes this is great! Thanks for your extremely quick reply, it definitely helps :-) (It's people like you who make Github that amazing!)

[raykolbe]

Hi @inbaz and @mlumbroso,

As you've noticed DOMPDFModule hasn't received the time and attention it deserves. I understand how frustrating this is and I'm sorry you've had to deal with this frustration 😢

I'm currently taking steps to stabilize DOMPDFModule which includes code updates as well as creating a backlog that will ensure its continued success.

You can follow project Phoneix to see what immediate work is being prioritized.

Thank you for your understanding and patience.