I have a page which uses mPDF which when you run displays a PDF in the browser, it can also be saved from here as a PDF no problem. What I would like to happen is when the page is run and generates a PDF that the page is saved as a PDF on the server.
Here is the current code:
<?php
include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/include/seo-check/lib/WSAclient.php';
include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/include/seo-check/lib/WSAParser.php';
$reportID= $_GET['reportid'];
$WSAclient = new WSAclient(WSA_USER_ID,WSA_API_KEY);
$result=$WSAclient->viewReport($reportID,WSA_SUBSCRIPTION_ID,'xml','EN');
unset($WSAclient);
ob_start();
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>PDF Report</title>
<!--Add your CSS here-->
</head>
<body>
<?php
echo WSAParser::viewReportResponse($result);
?>
</body>
</html>
<?php
$HTMLoutput = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
//Convert HTML 2 PDF by using MPDF PHP library
include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/include/seo-check/lib/MPDF/mpdf.php';
$mpdf=new mPDF();
$mpdf->WriteHTML($HTMLoutput);
$mpdf->Output();
?>
Like I said this outputs the PDF fine but could someone tell me how to save as a PDF?
The mPDF docs state that the first argument of
Output()
is the file path, second is the saving mode - you need to set it to'F'
.This can be done like this. It worked fine for me. And also set the directory permissions to 777 or 775 if not set.
Try this:
because:
D
- means DownloadF
- means File-save only