Generating PDF files from Database using CodeIgniter
for example,
when i click save button all contents in the table can downloaded as pdf format
please help me
thanks...
Take a look at this article.
http://www.christophermonnat.com/2008/08/generating-pdf-files-using-codeigniter/
Also my answer is helful too.
cezPDF in Codeigniter 2
on the user click you should hit a controller function which will query the database and load a view file which you can pass to this library and it will throw it as pdf.
There is no native PDF library in CodeIgniter, so you need to use an third party library or a third party software-as-a-service (SaaS) to generate the PDF.
Here is what I did for one client.
I first generate a nicely formatted, print-friendly HTML page using standard CodeIgniter techniques to select the data from the relevant table, sort it, and echo to the page.
Next, I use the following SasS to turn my formatted HTML page into a PDF download:
http://www.htm2pdf.co.uk
This is a commercial system, but relatively affordable and quick and easy to use.
Alternatively, if you want to do some custom programming, you can try:
http://html2pdf.fr
In this case, you need to link to the class file (external to CodeIgniter) and call
the various methods to generate the PDF. This approach does not require an annual fee
but it will take more programming effort.
You can use codeginter's database utility for getting backup in txt format first http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/database/utilities.html#backup
Then you can read the generated file and convert it in pdf using https://github.com/aiwmedia/HTML2PDF-CI
This pdf will you can give for download
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I need to print all the grades by level from a school, I'm working using Laravel and I have searched for the way to do it but I could'nt find the answer.
Do someone here knows how to send a view to be printed directly to the printer? or instead, how to make a pdf with all the grades and then use the pdf software to print? I prefer to not using third party plugins also, could someone give me ligth about this issue?
There are ways in 'vanilla' PHP to create PDFs but they're pretty dense imo. You can find out about it here.
Although if you were to rethink your policy on 3rd parties, DOMPDF is a lot easier.
With the latter you can write HTML (and can use the blade templating from laravel) and pass it straight to DOMPDF to render it as is. There are some examples for both in the links above.
Hope this points you in the right direction.
EDIT: It's early and I didn't read your question properly.
To print trigger a physical print of a page you'll need some javascript. It depends strongly on what printers are there. If they have some sort of print by email function it's easier, just generate the PDF and use MailChimp or something to shoot it off to the printer. Some have FTP or file sharing options also.
If this isn't an option you'll have to load the page and trigger the browser print using the javascript window.print(); function.
I am using Drupal 8 and working on Eform types. I had to generate PDF from eform submissions. I used entity print module for this and am using DOMPDF as PDF Engine. I am able to apply custom css to the pdf but the requirements are still not covered. Now I need to override the template so that I can customize the PDF as per my requirement, I could not achieve this. Few requirements:
I need to insert tabular format.
Custom sequence of entities/fields.
Site Logo
Is there any way to do so?
You could also go to he link to get more details on the output before it is sent to the pdf engine.
/print/pdf/node/86/debug
I'm trying to convert emails from my mailbox, into either HTML or PDF programatically.
My main motivation is to able to create summary of emails on a web page, and able to expand a particular email and view the entire content of the email.
I figured PDF might be an option since I do not have to worry about linking the contents in the email (eg. image) to the storage location of the image.
I'm starting with the ruby Mail gem and I also came across mhonarc. I'm not sure if mhonarc is a too much for what I'm trying to do, so I decided to ask here to see if there alternatives out there.
Gem pdfkit is used for generating PDFs. Please read readme, gem requires wkhtmltopdf library in your system.
I would approach email conversion via the IMAP library (there might be newer ones out by now) and then serve everything from a simple Sinatra app in the browser. You can use a template language to generate simple html output and logic. Of course you can also use prawn for pdf generation. Many different ways to get there... Not sure why you don't just load emails and show partial content. Life can be so simple.
I'm creating a web portal for financial institute and we were asked to create a report with table of contents and page numbers and headings. For example, this report looks like ordinary ebook that contains images, table of contents, page numbers, headings, etc.
We are using ASP.net MVC 3, Entity framework and MSSQL server for our infrastructure.
What are the options that I have for considering this pdf generation ?
Are there any open source solutions ?
I'm familiar with docbook approach XSLT and XSFO, however these bit hard to implement and complex.
What we are searching is a easy apporach ?
You can use ItextSharp DLL to generate pdf with Table as you want.
you can download from below link.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextsharp/
I have a website that displays product information that the client wishes to offer as pdf format. I need a way to dynamically convert a particular HTML page into a PDF, does anybody know of a way to do this? I need to convert an html page into a PDF document and serve it to the end user on the fly (there are WAY too many products to do this manually and these products receive updates regularly so a manual approach is out of the question)
EDIT: I forgot to mention that I need this to use either vb.net or c#.net
Have you tried iTextSharp?