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sluggerdog
sluggerdog

Reputation: 843

Render a View without loading in the browser - cakephp

I am wondering if it is possible to render an action's view without loading in the browser?

I'm using a cakephp component that used mPDF to generate PDF files. The component works well if you load the action and view in a browser but when I want to generate and save the pdf to the drive it doesn't seem to kick in, I'm assuming it's because the view isn't loaded property.

The component I am using is: https://github.com/segy/Mpdf

So basically I have a function called mail_merge which generates a pdf using the mentioned component, I need to call the mail_merge function from another function within the same controller to generate the pdf but without loading in the browser.

Thanks

UPDATE:

I worked out how to set the view as a variable and then write it to the pdf in the function.

ADDED THIS:

// RENDER THE VIEW AND SET AS A VARIABLE TO WRITE THE HTML
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------->
$response = $this->render('mail_merge');
$thebody = $response->body();
$this->Mpdf->WriteHTML($thebody);

Unfortunately my PDF still won't generate so I guess the issue is something else.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1005

Answers (1)

Greg Motyl
Greg Motyl

Reputation: 2545

Try this way: 

$response = $this->render('mail_merge');
$thebody = $response->body();
$this->Mpdf->WriteHTML($thebody);
$this->Mpdf->Output('filename.pdf');

Upvotes: 1

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