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Johannes
Johannes

Reputation: 67768

Is there any way to make Javascript work in DOMPDF-generated PDFs?

I am currently testing DOMPDF and got it working quite nice for my purposes, including CSS styling, displaying content fetched from a mysql database etc.

Now I tried to use some Javascript, but it doesn't work. I used a very simple script for testing:

HTML somewhere on the page:

<div id='mydiv1' style='width: 100%;height:20px;background:#ddd;'></div>

The JS (just above the closing </body> tag (but I also tried it right after the opening <body> tag):

<script>
    document.getElementById('mydiv1').innerHTML = 'this is a test';
</script>

When I echo this page in the browser (I am echoing a variable which contains the complete HTML/PHP page), that text appears in the DIV. When I put the same variable in DOMPDF's loadHtml and then render and output it, the script-generated text doesn't appear in the PDF (the rest of the page does).

So my question is: Is there any way to make Javascript work in DOMPDF-generated PDFs?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 24058

Answers (2)

dougblitz210
dougblitz210

Reputation: 139

There is a DomPDF option to turn on inline javascript:

$isJavascriptEnabled = true;

Heres an example of how to use the DomPDF options:

$HTML = <<<HTML
!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<body>
some html
</body>
<script> somejs </script>
</head>
</html>
HTML;

require_once "sites/all/libraries/dompdf/autoload.inc.php";
use Dompdf\Dompdf;
use Dompdf\Options;
$options = new Options();
$options->set('isJavascriptEnabled', TRUE);
$dompdf = new Dompdf($options);
$dompdf->load_html($HTML);
$dompdf->setPaper('A4', 'portrait');
$dompdf->render();
$dompdf->stream('blah.pdf');

I took this from DomPDF's options page: https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf/blob/master/src/Options.php

Upvotes: 1

daniel
daniel

Reputation: 112

Unfortunately, DOMPDF doesn't support javascript. You may consider looking at something like phantomjs, which can be used to save pdf files, as well.

Upvotes: 2

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