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generate_pdf()

Description

Takes an HTML template suitable for HTML2PDF library and generates a PDF file if successfull

and $save_on_server = true, it will be save on the server
placeholders found in the HTML template

Parameters

ColumnTypeDefaultDescription
$html_template_path string HTML template path
$filename string The file name of the generated PDF file. If this is an actual path,
$bind_placeholders array array A map of all the values that are meant to replace any
$save_on_server boolean false If true, PDF file will be saved to the filename path
$pdf_properties array array Properties of the PDF file (e.g. author, title, font, margins)

Return

boolean

Location

include/pdf_functions.php lines 70 to 190

Definition

 
function generate_pdf($html_template_path$filename, array $bind_placeholders = array(), $save_on_server false, array $pdf_properties = array())
    {
    global 
$applicationname$baseurl$baseurl_short$storagedir$linkedheaderimgsrc$language$contact_sheet_date_include_time$contact_sheet_date_wordy;

    
$html2pdf_path dirname(__FILE__) . '/../lib/html2pdf/vendor/autoload.php';
    if(!
file_exists($html2pdf_path))
        {
        
trigger_error('html2pdf class file is missing. Please make sure you have it under lib folder!');
        }
    require_once 
$html2pdf_path;

    
// Do we have a physical HTML template
    
if(!file_exists($html_template_path))
        {
        
trigger_error('File "' $html_template_path '" does not exist!');
        }

    
$html file_get_contents($html_template_path);
    if(
false === $html)
        {
        return 
false;
        }

    
// General placeholders available to HTML templates
    
$general_params = array(
        
'applicationname' => $applicationname,
        
'baseurl'         => $baseurl,
        
'baseurl_short'   => $baseurl_short,
        
'filestore'       => $storagedir,
        
'filename'        => (!$save_on_server $filename basename($filename)),
        
'date'            => nicedate(date('Y-m-d H:i:s'), $contact_sheet_date_include_time$contact_sheet_date_wordy),
    );

    if(
'' != $linkedheaderimgsrc)
        {
        
$general_params['linkedheaderimgsrc'] = $linkedheaderimgsrc;
        }

    
$bind_params array_merge($general_params$bind_placeholders);

    foreach(
$bind_params as $param => $param_value)
        {
        
// Bind [%param%] placeholders to their values
        
$html str_replace('[%' $param '%]'escape($param_value), $html);
        
        
// replace \r\n with <br />. This is how they do it at the moment at html2pdf.fr
        
$html str_replace("\r\n"'<br />'$html);
        }

    
$html process_if_statements($html$bind_params);
    
    
// Last resort to clean up PDF templates by searching for all remaining placeholders
    
$html preg_replace('/\[%.*%\]/'''$html);

    
// Setup PDF
    
$pdf_orientation 'P';
    
$pdf_format      'A4';
    
$pdf_language    resolve_pdf_language();
    
$pdf_unicode     true;
    
$pdf_encoding    'UTF-8';
    
$pdf_margins     = array(5558);

    if(
array_key_exists('orientation'$pdf_properties) && '' != trim($pdf_properties['orientation']))
        {
        
$pdf_orientation $pdf_properties['orientation'];
        }

    if(
array_key_exists('format'$pdf_properties) && '' != trim($pdf_properties['format']))
        {
        
$pdf_format $pdf_properties['format'];
        }

    if(
array_key_exists('language'$pdf_properties) && '' != trim($pdf_properties['language']))
        {
        
$pdf_language $pdf_properties['language'];
        }

    if(
array_key_exists('margins'$pdf_properties) && is_array($pdf_properties['margins']) && !== count($pdf_properties['margins']))
        {
        
$pdf_margins $pdf_properties['margins'];
        }

    
$html2pdf = new Spipu\Html2Pdf\Html2Pdf($pdf_orientation$pdf_format$pdf_language$pdf_unicode$pdf_encoding$pdf_margins);

    
// Set PDF title
    
if(array_key_exists('title'$pdf_properties) && '' != trim($pdf_properties['title']))
        {
        
$html2pdf->pdf->SetTitle($pdf_properties['title']);
        }

    
// Set PDF author
    
if(array_key_exists('author'$pdf_properties) && '' != trim($pdf_properties['author']))
        {
        
$html2pdf->pdf->SetAuthor($pdf_properties['author']);
        }

    
// Set PDF subject
    
if(array_key_exists('subject'$pdf_properties) && '' != trim($pdf_properties['subject']))
        {
        
$html2pdf->pdf->SetSubject($pdf_properties['subject']);
        }

    
// Set PDF font family
    
if(array_key_exists('font'$pdf_properties) && '' != trim($pdf_properties['font']))
        {
        
$html2pdf->setDefaultFont($pdf_properties['font']);
        }

    
$html2pdf->WriteHTML($html);

    if(
$save_on_server)
        {
        
$html2pdf->Output($filename'F');
        }
    else
        {
        
$html2pdf->Output($filename);
        }

    return 
true;
    }

This article was last updated 19th March 2024 05:05 Europe/London time based on the source file dated 8th March 2024 15:10 Europe/London time.