[FX.php List] [off] Anyone familiar w/ mPDF who could help?

[Leo R. Lundgren]

Yeah, it's exactly what is going on.

I haven't seen their code and not yours either, so I can't say how they differ, I just know you need to output some HTTP headers to instruct the client to download the file instead of showing the source of it.

Try doing this to output the file to the client:

header('Content-type: application/pdf');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . basename($filename) . '"');
header('Content-Length: ' . $documentFilesize);
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
readfile($filename);  // Or whatever is appropriate in your case

I believe this should allow the client to view the file if that's the default behavior, while if you change the "application/pdf" up there to "application/octet-stream" instead, the client should download the file instead of opening it. Disclaimer; It's been a while since I did this, but that's what I recall. The rationale is that with the latter the client doesn't know it's a PDF, hence doesn't know how to open it, and should therefore download the file.


13 jan 2012 kl. 21.34 skrev Bob Patin:

> Well, that does describe what it's doing, but with their examples you *do* see the output in your browser.
> 
> Check out this:
> 
> http://ga.longtermsolutions.com/examples/example01_basic.php
> 
> Now, go to this site and login using test/test:
> 
> http://ga.longtermsolutions.com
> 
> click on TEST RESULTS, click SELECT ALL, then click PRINT SELECTED RESULTS.
> 
> You'll see it immediately… :)
> 
> Thanks for any help…
> 
> Bob Patin
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> On Jan 13, 2012, at 2:25 PM, Leo R. Lundgren wrote:
> 
>> Just off the top of my head; Could the problem be that you have your generated PDF content, and want to give it to the client, but instead of "getting a file" they see the PDF output right in the browser? A sign of that could be if the junk characters start with "PDF" in the first characters.
>> 
>> 13 jan 2012 kl. 21.23 skrev Bob Patin:
>> 
>>> I'm trying to use mPDF for the first time; my tests work fine, but when I try to render my actual page, I get trash characters.
>>> 
>>> If anyone has experience using it and wants to earn some $$ helping me out, please let me know.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Bob Patin
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