HTML to PDF, dynamic document generation
dynamically generate PDF documents for the web using PHP with the library dompdf/dompdf
HTML to PDF
composer require dompdf/dompdf
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
use Dompdf\Dompdf;
$dompdf = new Dompdf();
// load html
$html = file_get_contents('your_html_file.html');
$dompdf->loadHtml($html);
// dimension and direction
$dompdf->setPaper('A4', 'portrait');
// render
$dompdf->render();
Dynamic
ob_start();
include __DIR__ . '/document.php';
$html = ob_get_clean();
Output
//get the content
$content = $dompdf->output();
// output
file_put_contents('./target/output.pdf', $content);
External Stylesheet
to correctly apply external stylesheet, use system path
$dompdf->getOptions()->setChroot(__DIR__);
<link href="./dist/style.css" rel="stylesheet">