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s.mujahid8
s.mujahid8

Reputation: 189

Getting PHP variable value into a PDF file

Using the following ajax code im sending the variable 'a' to php file get_output.php:

var a="";
for($i=0;$i<n;$i=$i+1)
{
   var a = (a+'. '+ (document.getElementById((values[$i])).innerHTML));
}
if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
{// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
    xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
}
else
{// code for IE6, IE5
    xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
{
    if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200)
    {
        document.getElementById("output_container").innerHTML=xmlhttp.responseText;
    }
}
xmlhttp.open("POST","get_output.php?q="+a,true);
xmlhttp.send();

In get_output.php the following code is present:

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
    <?php
        $value=$_GET["q"];
        echo $value;
    ?>
</body>
</html>

Here i am getting the output i wanted in variable 'value'. Now i want to put the variable 'value' content into a pdf file. when i researched in google i found all solutions were getting the complete page into pdf file by using 'url',etc.

All i want is that the content present in variable 'value' should come into a PDF file. Thank you.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 11499

Answers (3)

WhiteHawk
WhiteHawk

Reputation: 89

here i am sending you code for get valyue from the main page to PDF page if id is same

    $id = intval($_GET['id']);

                // Make sure the ID is in fact a valid ID
                if($id <= 0)
                {
                    die('The ID is invalid!');
                }
                else
                 {
require("fpdf.php");
$pdf=new FPDF();
//var_dump(get_class_methods($pdf));
$pdf->AddPage();
//------------------------
$pdf->SetFont("arial","B","20");
$pdf->Cell(160,10,"t",1,0,"l");
$pdf->Cell(30,10,"".$t,1,1,"l");
$pdf->Output();


        }
}  //top most close
    else
     {
        echo 'Error! No ID was passed.';
    }
    ?>

    //PDF code

    }

Upvotes: 0

Ritesh Kumar Gupta
Ritesh Kumar Gupta

Reputation: 5191

You can do it using TCPDF.TCPDF is a PHP class for generating PDF documents.Download it, and modify the $html variable in TCPDF/pdfgenerator/examples/example_001.php file as: 

// Set some content to print
$html = <<<EOD
<div>
$value
</div>  
    EOD;

OR Create a new file(say test.php) in /TCPDF/pdfgenerator/examples/ folder.Copy paste the following code into new file, that you just created:

<?php
require_once('../config/lang/eng.php');
require_once('../tcpdf.php');
$pdf = new TCPDF(PDF_PAGE_ORIENTATION, PDF_UNIT, PDF_PAGE_FORMAT, true, 'UTF-8', false);

    $value=$_GET["q"];/*The value that you want to print*/

// set document information
$pdf->SetCreator(PDF_CREATOR);
$pdf->SetAuthor('Nicola Asuni');
$pdf->SetTitle('TCPDF Example 001');
$pdf->SetSubject('TCPDF Tutorial');
$pdf->SetKeywords('TCPDF, PDF, example, test, guide');

$pdf->SetHeaderData(PDF_HEADER_LOGO, PDF_HEADER_LOGO_WIDTH, '','', array(0,64,255), array(0,64,128));
$pdf->setFooterData($tc=array(0,64,0), $lc=array(0,64,128));

// set header and footer fonts
$pdf->setHeaderFont(Array(PDF_FONT_NAME_MAIN, '', PDF_FONT_SIZE_MAIN));
$pdf->setFooterFont(Array(PDF_FONT_NAME_DATA, '', PDF_FONT_SIZE_DATA));

// set default monospaced font
$pdf->SetDefaultMonospacedFont(PDF_FONT_MONOSPACED);

//set margins
$pdf->SetMargins(PDF_MARGIN_LEFT, PDF_MARGIN_TOP, PDF_MARGIN_RIGHT);
$pdf->SetHeaderMargin(PDF_MARGIN_HEADER);
$pdf->SetFooterMargin(PDF_MARGIN_FOOTER);

//set auto page breaks
$pdf->SetAutoPageBreak(TRUE, PDF_MARGIN_BOTTOM);

//set image scale factor
$pdf->setImageScale(PDF_IMAGE_SCALE_RATIO);

//set some language-dependent strings
$pdf->setLanguageArray($l);


// set default font subsetting mode
$pdf->setFontSubsetting(true);

// Set font
// dejavusans is a UTF-8 Unicode font, if you only need to
// print standard ASCII chars, you can use core fonts like
// helvetica or times to reduce file size.
$pdf->SetFont('times', '', 11, '', true);

// Add a page
// This method has several options, check the source code documentation for more information.
$pdf->AddPage();

// set text shadow effect
$pdf->setTextShadow(array('enabled'=>true, 'depth_w'=>0.2, 'depth_h'=>0.2, 'color'=>array(196,196,196), 'opacity'=>1, 'blend_mode'=>'Normal'));

// Set some content to print
$html = <<<EOD
<div>
$value
</div>  

EOD;

// Print text using writeHTMLCell()
$pdf->writeHTMLCell($w=0, $h=0, $x='', $y='', $html, $border=0, $ln=1, $fill=0, $reseth=true, $align='', $autopadding=true);

// ---------------------------------------------------------

// Close and output PDF document
// This method has several options, check the source code documentation for more information.
$pdf->Output("generatedpdf.pdf", 'F');
//============================================================+
// END OF FILE
//============================================================+
?>

When you run it, a new pdf file is generated in TCPDF/pdfgenerator/examples/generatedpdf.pdf that contains only the value in $value php variable.

Upvotes: 1

Samy
Samy

Reputation: 632

You have to use some of the pdf generation libraries available to generate the PDF and send it to brower.

I would like to suggest FPDF its very good to play around.

http://www.fpdf.org/

Upvotes: 0

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