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DvL

Reputation: 47

CakePHP Shell Cronjob TCPDF

I'm using CakePHP 2.4 in and TCPDF to generate invoices.

CronjobShell.php:

$cmsoptions = $this->Cmsoption->find('first');
$this->set(compact('data', 'cmsoptions'));
$this->layout = 'pdf';
$this->render();

"Call to undefined method CronjobShell::set()"

I understand that the Set option is ginving the problem. But how can I generate the PDF with a Cronjob?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 299

Answers (1)

Zudwa
Zudwa

Reputation: 1400

The problem is that AppShell doesn't support view functional by default. So like in similar question, you have to add following:

App::uses('View', 'Core');

$view = new View();
$view->set(compact('data', 'cmsoptions'));
$view->layout = 'pdf';
$pdfContent = $view->render();

And then you can use $pdfContent as content of PDF file with help of file_put_contents('/var/www/new_invoice.pdf', $pdfContent); or similar.

Upvotes: 3

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