There always arises a need for us to convert content from one file format to another one.
To convert or to create PDF files in PHP , we can use the converter HTML2PDF .
HTML2FPDF is a PHP Class library that uses the FPDF class library to convert HTML files to PDF files. This library consist of three classes namely PDF, HTML2FPDF and FPDF (modified FPDF class). The class PDF extends the class HTML2FPDF that extends the class FPDF.
The following example illustrates the conversion of HTML page to PDF file using HTML2FPDF library.
<?php
require(‘html2fpdf.php’);
$pdf=new HTML2FPDF();
$pdf->AddPage();
$fp = fopen(“sample.html”,”r”);
$strContent = fread($fp, filesize(“sample.html”));
fclose($fp);
$pdf->WriteHTML($strContent);
$pdf->Output(“sample.pdf”);
echo “PDF file is generated successfully!”;
?>
First, we need to include the html2fpdf.php file that contains the HTML2FPDF class and an object is created using the constructor HTML2FPDF(). Then a new page is added to the pdf document using the function AddPage(). The html contents are read from the sample.html file using file functions. Then the html contents are written in to the pdf format using WriteHTML() function.
For more information about the HTML2PDF converter , refer to this url
http://www.macronimous.com/resources/Converting_HTML2PDF_using_PHP.asp
