Create a PDF File with PHP

Create PDF file using PHP

I have used TCPDF with much success to generate PDF files programatically using PHP.

And to generate word documents: http://www.phpdocx.com/ (this is a paid solution).

How to create a PDF file with PHP?

You can try free libraries like fPdf

FPDF is a PHP class which allows to
generate PDF files with pure PHP, that
is to say without using the PDFlib
library. F from FPDF stands for Free:
you may use it for any kind of usage
and modify it to suit your needs.

Parsing raw PDF data to create PDF using PHP

You might be missing some headers or have whitespace after reading stream. This works for me:

$path = '/file/absolute/path.pdf';
$content = '%PDF-1.4%âãÏÓ8 0 obj<< /Type ....';

// save PDF buffer
file_put_contents($path, $content);

// ensure we don't have any previous output
if(headers_sent()){
    exit("PDF stream will be corrupted - there is already output from previous code.");
}

header('Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate, max-age=0'); // HTTP/1.1
header('Pragma: public');
header('Expires: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT'); // Date in the past
header('Last-Modified: '.gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s').' GMT');

// force download dialog
header('Content-Type: application/force-download');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream', false);
header('Content-Type: application/download', false);

// use the Content-Disposition header to supply a recommended filename
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.basename($path).'";');
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Content-Length: '.filesize($path));
header('Content-Type: application/pdf', false);

// send binary stream directly into buffer rather than into memory
readfile($path);

// make sure stream ended
exit();

How to create pdf using php

Generate the PHP as you usually would but add the header

header("Content-Type: application/pdf");
header('Content-Disposition:inline; filename="testing.pdf"'); //view in browser

Or

 header("Content-Type: application/pdf");
 header('Content-Disposition:attachment; filename="testing.pdf"'); //force download

Create PDF file using php?

firstly you need to create an array and set all data to the array after that
make your $pdf->Write(); comment work.
you cannot write like this because all data in while.

 while($result = mysql_fetch_assoc($query))
    {
// create an array or call all data here !
}
// use forachone array i main kame loop and start your code.

it retrieves only the first record because you need to get all data set once !
but you writepdf commant in the while loop so it retrieves only the first data and cannot pass to another data.

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