The Pdfcrowd API lets you easily create PDF from web pages or raw HTML code in your PHP applications.
To use the API, you need an account on http://pdfcrowd.com, if you don't have one you can sign up here. This will give you a username and an API key.
Copy pdfcrowd.php to your source directory.
Server side PDF generation. This code converts a web page and sends
the generated PDF to the browser (don't forget to use your "username"
and "apikey"):
require 'pdfcrowd.php';
try
{
// create an API client instance
$client = new Pdfcrowd("username", "apikey");
// convert a web page and store the generated PDF into a $pdf variable
$pdf = $client->convertURI('http://example.com/');
// set HTTP response headers
header("Content-Type: application/pdf");
header("Cache-Control: no-cache");
header("Accept-Ranges: none");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"created.pdf\"");
// send the generated PDF
echo $pdf;
}
catch(PdfcrowdException $e)
{
echo "Pdfcrowd Error: " . $e->getMessage();
}
Other basic operations:
// convert an HTML string
$html = "<html><body>In-memory HTML.</body></html>";
$pdf = $client->convertHtml($html);
// convert an HTML file
$pdf = $client->convertFile('/path/to/local/file.html');