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>
PDF.co Web API: the Web API with a set of tools for documents manipulation, data conversion, data extraction, splitting and merging of documents. Includes image recognition, built-in OCR, barcode generation and barcode decoders to decode bar codes from scans, pictures and pdf.
Download Source Code (.zip)
return to the previous page explore PDF from HTML (HTML to PDF) endpoint
Copyright © 2016 - 2024 PDF.co