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

Fri Jan 13 13:59:41 MST 2012

So your PDF contents is in $html (i.e. that variable holds only the PDF contents and no actual HTML)? If so, just echo/print that instead of readfile($filename).

$filename is whatever you want the file to be named, but beware that it should contain basic ASCII chars, so I'd recommend you keep it to a-z, A-Z, _ and - and no spaces. You can skip the basename() and just put a string there.

You can get the size of the contents by using strlen($html). so replace $documentFilesize with that.

13 jan 2012 kl. 21.55 skrev Bob Patin:

> Leo,
> 
> Thanks for the pointers; what you're saying makes complete sense.
> 
> In my case I'm generating a variable called $html, so there's no file to speak of. That being the case, where would I get the values for $filename and $documentFilesize?
> 
> Just for grins I added just hte first header line but that didn't get it yet…
> 
> Thanks for the help!
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> Bob Patin
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> On Jan 13, 2012, at 2:47 PM, Leo R. Lundgren wrote:
> 
>> Yeah, it's exactly what is going on.
>> 
>> I haven't seen their code and not yours either, so I can't say how they differ, I just know you need to output some HTTP headers to instruct the client to download the file instead of showing the source of it.
>> 
>> Try doing this to output the file to the client:
>> 
>> header('Content-type: application/pdf');
>> header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . basename($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
>>> Longterm Solutions LLC
>>> bob at longtermsolutions.com
>>> 615-333-6858
>>> http://www.longtermsolutions.com
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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
>>>>> Longterm Solutions LLC
>>>>> bob at longtermsolutions.com
>>>>> 615-333-6858
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