I'm don't use PHP that much and right now I'm stuck at a problem. I need to save the site of a webbrowser as a pdf. I'm using right now mPDF (which was suggested in a wiki of stackoverflow) and it seems to work pretty well (I just have simply write a short html code into a php variable and then created the pdf).
But now I must get the html code of the actual site in the browser and save it then into a php variable. How can I do that?
If I understand you correctly, you can store page contents into php variable like this:
ob_start();
// your html code goes here
$contents = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
// see the contents now
echo $contents;
$contents = ob_get_clean(); alone will do the job as ob_get_clean() both returns the value of buffer and cleans it.You can probably fetch the remote content via PHPs file_get_contents()-function:
$html = file_get_contents('http://example.org');
If this does not work, make sure that you have allow_url_fopen enabled in your php.ini.
ob_*-functions to capture the output of the page you want to put into your PDF. Do it like this: If the user invokes the page with a print-parameter (provided by your print-link), you print your page as usual. But you do it like Sarfraz suggested. ob_start() before your page is printed, ob_get_contents() afterwards to recieve the output. ob_end_clean() prevents PHP from sending the output.?print=true to indicate wether the page should be output as PDF. Invoke the ob_*-functions if that parameter is set: ob_start() at the top (above everything that leads to output), ob_get_contents() and ob_end_clean() at the very bottom.This is probably over-kill, but you can try using SimpleHTML DOM which can load a remote website and extract out its HTML.
A more clear example of how to get the html in than Sarfraz is
ob_start();
?>
<div>
Your html code goes here
</div>
<?php
$contents = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
// see the contents now
echo $contents;
