gdmedia/silverstripe-dompdf

SilverStripe PDF Generation via DOMPDF Library

PDF Generation via DOMPDF Library

This is a fork of https://github.com/burnbright/silverstripe-dompdf for use with Composer., _(*1)

Maintainer: Jeremy Shipman (jeremy@burnbright.net), _(*2)

Makes use of: https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf Dompdf websites: http://dompdf.github.com/, http://pxd.me/dompdf/www/, _(*3)

Input:, _(*4)

• HTML string (which could be rendered template)
• HTML File

Output, _(*5)

• PDF File location
• SS File
• PDF binary stream to browser

Installation

Composer

• On the command line, cd into your sites root folder
• Run composer require gdmedia/silverstripe-dompdf
• Run dev/build?flush=all in your browser

Manually

• Download the module from https://github.com/guru-digital/silverstripe-dompdf/archive/master.zip
• Extract the files into your silverstripe root folder
• Run dev/build?flush=all in your browser

Example usage

    $pdf = new SS_DOMPDF();
    $pdf->setHTML($mydataobject->renderWith('MyTemplate'));
    $pdf->render();
    $pdf->toFile('mypdf.pdf');

Debugging

The $pdf->streamdebug(); function is useful for quickly viewing pdfs, particularly if your browser supports displaying pdfs, rather than downloading., _(*6)

You can check your html before it is converted like this:, _(*7)

    echo $mydataobject->renderWith('MyTemplate');die();

Useful Tips

• Use tables for layout if you get errors from floating divs.
• See the official dompdf website for more info