I am having some trouble with multidimensional array and its value.
What i am looking for is , from my query I am searching teachers name in the array. And after that i want to create a pdf using dompdf. The problem is with looping. I am not able to create a proper loop which will work the way I want it to work. My sample query is
$q11 = "select id from teachers order by teacher ";
$r11 = mysql_query($q11) or die(mysql_error());
while($rows11 = mysql_fetch_array($r11)){
$teacher = $rows11['id'];
$dompdf->"It will start working";
}
Now i know , this code is confusing, but what i want is, it should create dompdf for every teacher in one single pdf file. Like from the query it should fetch teachers, and for each teacher it should create a dompdf page. Currently it is making just one page according to the last value that my query has search.
Please help. It is kinda urgent.
Your loop is working fine. The way you add pages to your PDF is probably wrong. Apparently you are overwriting one page again and again instead of attaching a new one.
EDIT
I've never used dompdf. A quick look into the docs let me think you create something like a HTML markup which then is converted into PDF, did I get this right?
Example code
If you wonder about the unusual syntax
$var = <<<HTML \r\nHTML
, that's a heredoc. It's just more comfortable to use heredocs when you have a lot of alien inline code, this can have variables{$varname}
and you don't need to worry about quotes. All you need to make sure, is that heredoc closerHTML
is in a new line and not indented.EDIT2
Still not too sure, which library you are using. I find this extension looking pretty good and it's called dompdf, just like you said in your question.
Your latest comment indicates you did not solve your problem so far, so I decided to add some more information to get you to the target.
dompdf is able to read CSS2 and CSS3 properties of your input document.
Each cycle in the
while
loop above represents one teacher whith each of them getting a own page in the output document.I put the page into a div container with the class
teacherPage
. You can fill this container with all the information you want to have displayed for a teacher.Now all we need to do, is to tell dompdf each
teacherPage
is a new page. This can be done using@page
markup shipped with CSS3I added an empty css container
<style type="text/css"></style>
to the example document above, that's where the page styling should go to.The example CSS
With
@page
you can define a named pageteacher
, which can have properties valid for the whole page container.page-break-after: always
will begin a new page after each containerHope this helps, have fun trying :)
Apparently no overflow problems and the results are taking more than the permitted margin of the sheet, you can do is to separate data from parent in another table and put between them: