Generate PDF From HTML File - PHP
PDF from HTML (HTML to PDF) sample in PHP demonstrating ‘Generate PDF From HTML File’
generate-pdf-from-html.php
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>HTML to PDF Result</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
// Get submitted form data
$apiKey = $_POST["apiKey"]; // The authentication key (API Key). Get your own by registering at https://app.pdf.co
// HTML input
$inputHtml = file_get_contents("./inputHtml.html");
// Prepare URL for HTML to PDF API call
$url = "https://api.pdf.co/v1/pdf/convert/from/html";
// Prepare requests params
// See documentation: https://apidocs.pdf.co/?#1-json-pdfconvertfromhtml
$parameters = array();
// Input HTML code to be converted. Required.
$parameters["html"] = utf8_encode($inputHtml);
// Name of resulting file
$parameters["name"] = "result.pdf";
// Set to css style margins like 10 px or 5px 5px 5px 5px.
$parameters["margins"] = "5px 5px 5px 5px";
// Can be Letter, A4, A5, A6 or custom size like 200x200
$parameters["paperSize"] = "Letter";
// Set to Portrait or Landscape. Portrait by default.
$parameters["orientation"] = "Portrait";
// true by default. Set to false to disbale printing of background.
$parameters["printBackground"] = true;
// If large input document, process in async mode by passing true
$parameters["async"] = false;
// Set to HTML for header to be applied on every page at the header.
$parameters["header"] = "";
// Set to HTML for footer to be applied on every page at the bottom.
$parameters["footer"] = "";
// Create Json payload
$data = json_encode($parameters);
// Create request
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("x-api-key: " . $apiKey, "Content-type: application/json"));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
// Execute request
$result = curl_exec($curl);
if (curl_errno($curl) == 0)
{
$status_code = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
if ($status_code == 200)
{
$json = json_decode($result, true);
if (isset($json["error"]) && $json["error"] == true)
{
// Display service reported error
echo "<p>Error: " . $json["message"] . "</p>";
}
else
{
$resultFileUrl = $json["url"];
// Display link to the file with conversion results
echo "<div><h2>Conversion Result:</h2><a href='" . $resultFileUrl . "' target='_blank'>" . $resultFileUrl . "</a></div>";
}
}
else
{
// Display request error
echo "<p>Status code: " . $status_code . "</p>";
echo "<p>" . $result . "</p>";
}
}
else
{
// Display CURL error
echo "Error: " . curl_error($curl);
}
// Cleanup
curl_close($curl);
?>
</body>
</html>
inputHtml.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="" xml:lang="">
<head>
<title>TODO List</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
</head>
<body>
<h1>TODO List</h1>
<ul>
<li>
Wash the car
</li>
<li>
Do the dishes
</li>
<li>
Walk the dog
</li>
<li>
Buy A4 papers
</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
sample.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>PDF from HTML Api Demo</title>
</head>
<body>
<form name="form1" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" action="generate-pdf-from-html.php">
<p>
<label>Authentication key (API Key). Get your own by registering at <a href="https://apidocs.pdf.co">https://apidocs.pdf.co</a>.</label>
<br/>
<input type="text" name="apiKey" placeholder="API Key"/>
</p>
<p>
Click "Proceed" to generate PDF from Html ("inputHtml.html").
</p>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Proceed" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
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