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Jorge B.
Jorge B.

Reputation: 1213

How to generate PDF with low memory on the server?

I'm converting a table of my DB to PDF and I'm using the TCPDF.

First I have to convert my table to HTML and then I can convert to PDF, which use a lot of memory and I have a few resources on the server (256M for PHP max).

How can I pass a table that may have thousands of records to PDF with 256M memory max in PHP?

Can I create a PDF page by page and in the end concatenate all pages?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1305

Answers (2)

cootje
cootje

Reputation: 460

Did you try fpdf (http://www.fdpf.org) or the related mpdf (http://www.mpdf1.com) as an alternative? Maybe they use less resources so they can run on your server. They do a good job in creating HTML to PDF output.

Upvotes: 1

Avinash Babu
Avinash Babu

Reputation: 6252

I have found a way to concatenate the pdf page from this link.

require_once("tcpdf/tcpdf.php"); //ur workspaces
require_once("fpdi/fpdi.php");



class concat_pdf extends FPDI {
 var $files = array();
 function setFiles($files) {
      $this->files = $files;
 }
 function concat() {
      foreach($this->files AS $file) {
           $pagecount = $this->setSourceFile($file);
           for ($i = 1; $i <= $pagecount; $i++) {
                $tplidx = $this->ImportPage($i);
                $s = $this->getTemplatesize($tplidx);
                $this->AddPage(’P', array($s['w'], $s['h']));
                $this->useTemplate($tplidx);
           }
      }
 }
}

Upvotes: 1

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