PDF

Introduction

The PDF component provides the ability to create PDF documents from HTML templates.

Rendering

Rendering is done by using the mPDF library. The following table lists the used version of mPDF:

Cloudrexx	mPDF
Cloud	6.1
5.0.3	6.1
5.0.2	6.1
5.0.1	6.1
5.0.0	6.1

Refer to the user manual for a short introduction on how to render a PDF-document.

Integration

Templates

A PDF Template consists of UTF-8 encoded HTML code with optional CSS and is managed under Administration > Global Configuration > PDF Templates.

The following example creates a PDF based on a template and replaces the placeholders "PLACEHOLDER_FOO", "PLACEHOLDER_BAR" and the placeholder "PLACEHOLDER _IN_BLOCK_FOO" withing the block "BLOCK_FOO":

$pdf = $cx->getComponent('Pdf');
$pdfTemplateId = // ID of a PDF template which has been created under "Administration" > "Global Configuration" > "PDF Templates".
$substitution = array(
    'PLACEHOLDER_FOO' => 'Hello',
    'PLACEHOLDER_BAR' => 'World',
    'BLOCK_FOO' => array(
        0 => array(
            'PLACEHOLDER_IN_BLOCK_FOO' => 'Test',
        ),
    ),
);
$file = $pdf->generatePDF($pdfTemplateId, $substitution, 'pdf', true);
echo $file['filePath'];
echo $file['fileName'];

Manually create a PDF

The following example creates a PDF based on the HTML code in $tplContent without any substitution:

$pdf = new \Cx\Core_Modules\Pdf\Model\Entity\PdfDocument();
$pdf->SetTitle($fileName . '.pdf');
$pdf->setContent($tplContent);
$pdf->setDestination('F');
$pdf->setFilePath($session->getTempPath() . '/' . $fileName . '.pdf');
$pdf->Create();