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Informations about the package php-puppeteer

PHP Puppeteer

This project provides the ability to generate PDF with Puppeteer in PHP

Dependencies

The library is running based on Nodejs(7.6 above) and Puppeteer It is tested under NodeJS 8.

Installation on CentOS 7:

Installation on Ubuntu 16.04:

Installation

Install its404/php-puppeteer using Composer.

composer require its404/php-puppeteer

Usage

Parameters

The library has set some default parameter values to support basic features, you can set the customized parameters to override the default ones, it supports all parameters of Puppeteer API

Sample parameter array:

$config  = [
    'html' => "<h1>Hello World</h1>",
    'pdf' => [
        'path' => '/tmp/test.pdf',
        'margin' => [
            'top' => '10mm',
            'right' => '10mm',
            'bottom' => '10mm',
            'left' => '10mm',
        ]
    ]
];

Note:

  1. If both $config['pdf']['html'] and $config['pdf']['url'] are set, html will be picked up.
  2. If $config['pdf']['path'] is not set, will return pdf data

Import

You need to import this namespace at the top of your PHP class

use Its404\PhpPuppeteer\Browser;

PDF by URL

You can generate PDF by URL through pdf function:

public function actionTest1()
{
    $config = [
        "url" => "https://www.highcharts.com/demo/line-basic",
    ];
    $browser = new Browser();
    $browser->isDebug = true;
    $content = $browser->pdf($config);

    header("Content-type:application/pdf");
    echo $content;
}

You can set any parameter in $config to override the default values

PDF by HTML

You can generate PDF by html code through pdf function:

public function actionTest2()
{
    $config = [
        "html" => "<h1>Hello Wolrd</h1>"
    ];
    $browser = new Browser();
    $content = $browser->pdf($config);

    header("Content-type:application/pdf");
    echo $content;
}

Debug The class Browser has one parameter $isDebug, it would be debug mode if it's true, detailed error messages would be returned from pdf function if an error happened during Puppeteer running.

PDF to specific path

You can generate PDF to a specific path by setting $config['pdf']['path']

public function actionTest3()
{
    $config = [
        "html" => "<h1>Hello Wolrd</h1>",
        'pdf' => [
            'path' => '/tmp/test.pdf',
        ]
    ];
    $browser = new Browser();
    $browser->isDebug = true;
    $result = $browser->pdf($params);

    if (isset($result['returnVal'])&& $result['returnVal'] == 0) {
        echo "PDF generated successfully";
    } else {
        echo "Failed to generate PDF";
        var_dump($result['output']);
    }
}

Start a new page on PDF

You can add following html code in the html where you'd like to start a new page for PDF.

<div style="page-break-after:always;"></div>

More Examples?

You can find more examples from here

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