milanzor/cakephp-wkhtmltopdf

CakePHP 2.x View and Component for WkHtmlToPdf

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WkHtmlToPdf in CakePHP 2

Provides a View and a Component for generating PDF's through view's in Cake 2. Uses WkHtmlToPdf., _(*2)

Currently only supports WkHtmlToPdf AMD64!, _(*3)

How to use

• composer require milanzor/cakephp-wkhtmltopdf
• Load the plugin in Cake
• Enable parsing of extension pdf in your routes: Router::parseExtensions('pdf');
• Enable the RequestHandler to handle .pdf requests using the following snippet in your (App)Controller:

php public $components = [ 'RequestHandler' => [ 'viewClassMap' => [ 'pdf' => 'CakephpWkhtmltopdf.Pdf', ], ], ];, _(*4)

Now when you call a page, e.g. http://yoursite.local/invoices/view.pdf, the RequestHandler will offhand the request to this plugin's PdfView. Resulting in your view + layout files to be rendering into a PDF., _(*5)

Available options

In your Controller methods, you can set the following viewVars:, _(*6)

• To force a file download: $this->set('_download', 'filename-without-.pdf-extension');
• To stream the pdf to the browser: $this->set('_stream', true);
• Save the file: $this->set('_save', '/full/path/to/file.pdf');
• Additional WkHtmlToPdf options can be passed to the WkHtmlToPdf PHP instance using: $this->set('WkHtmlToPdf_options', []); For these options, see https://github.com/mikehaertl/phpwkhtmltopdf

Questions?

Feel free to make an issue or PR!, _(*7)