[RESOLVED] FPDF Wont Display PDF in IE7

[SuPerNoVi]

Hello again,

I've got a bit of a problem with FPDF and was hoping someone here might have experience with it to lend a hand.

Basically this is my code for handling the PDF generation...

	session_start();

require('pdf/fpdf_extended.php');
if($_SESSION['PDFCodeType'] == "View")
{
	$pdf=new PDF();
	$pdf->AddPage();
	$pdf->SetFont('Arial','',12);

	$html='
	<table>
	<tr>
		<td>Purchase Order No : '.$_SESSION['PODetails'][0]['PONo'].'</td>
		<td></td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td>Purchase Order Date : '.date("d/m/Y",strtotime($_SESSION['PODetails'][0]['DateCreated'])).'</td>
		<td></td>
	</tr>
	</table>
	<br>
	<hr></hr>
	<br>
	<table border="1">
	<tr>
		<td width="430" bgcolor="#d6eaef">Product Title</td>
		<td width="110" bgcolor="#d6eaef">Price</td>
		<td width="110" bgcolor="#d6eaef">Qty</td>
		<td width="110" bgcolor="#d6eaef">Total</td>
	</tr>'.
	$_SESSION['PDFCodeItems']
	.'<tr>
		<td width="760" bgcolor="#d6eaef">&nbsp;</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td width="540">&nbsp;</td>
		<td width="110">Total</td>
		<td width="110">£'.$_SESSION['PODetails'][0]['GrandTotal'].'</td>
	</tr>
	</table>
	';
	$pdf->Image('images/companylogo.jpg',168,5,0,18);
	$str = utf8_decode($html);
	$pdf->WriteHTML($str);
	//$pdf->Output($name='invoice.pdf',$dest='D');
	$pdf->Output();
}

if($_SESSION['PDFCodeType'] == "Download")
{
	$pdf=new PDF();
	$pdf->AddPage();
	$pdf->SetFont('Arial','',12);

	$html='
	<table>
	<tr>
		<td>Purchase Order No : '.$_SESSION['PODetails'][0]['PONo'].'</td>
		<td></td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td>Purchase Order Date : '.date("d/m/Y",strtotime($_SESSION['PODetails'][0]['DateCreated'])).'</td>
		<td></td>
	</tr>
	</table>
	<br>
	<hr></hr>
	<br>
	<table border="1">
	<tr>
		<td width="430" bgcolor="#d6eaef">Product Title</td>
		<td width="110" bgcolor="#d6eaef">Price</td>
		<td width="110" bgcolor="#d6eaef">Qty</td>
		<td width="110" bgcolor="#d6eaef">Total</td>
	</tr>'.
	$_SESSION['PDFCodeItems']
	.'<tr>
		<td width="760" bgcolor="#d6eaef">&nbsp;</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td width="540">&nbsp;</td>
		<td width="110">Total</td>
		<td width="110">£'.$_SESSION['PODetails'][0]['GrandTotal'].'</td>
	</tr>
	</table>
	';
	$pdf->Image('images/companylogo.jpg',168,5,0,18);
	$str = utf8_decode($html);
	$pdf->WriteHTML($str);
	//$pdf->Output($name='invoice.pdf',$dest='D');
	$pdf->Output($file = 'po'.$_SESSION['PODetails'][0]['PONo'].'.pdf', $download = TRUE);
}

I'm having to process everything on the page before and pass it through sessions because any processing on the page that isn't done by the FPDF class seems to make the page error.

$SESSION['PDFCodeItems'] is the HTML containing the table rows.
$SESSION['PDFCodeType'] is to find out whether the user is downloading or viewing.

I'm using an extended version of FPDF that converts basic HTML to PDF format. Which is attached for reference.

Like the title says it's purely IE7 that is just displaying nothing or not displaying a download dialogue box when the user clicks download. Works perfect in Firefox.

Any ideas?

[SuPerNoVi]

Nevermind I figured it out. Still can't get the download to work but I'm going to email the author about that one.

[subexpression]

SuPerNoVi,

You posted:

"Nevermind I figured it out. Still can't get the download to work but I'm going to email the author about that one."

What exactly was your solution? I need to know because I am having a similar problem.

I am attempting to add the bgcolor="" attribute to <table> <th> and <td> elements and the table appears completely black in the PDF.

Any suggestions?

• s

[subexpression]

I believe I located the bgcolor="" attribute problems and solved them.

Now, I am running into another.

The table widths are set, but columns aren't equally spaced.

For instance, if I have 2 columns, the first column is too large, and the second column collapses around the text and makes it very narrow.

Any ideas?

• s

[SuPerNoVi]

subexpression wrote:

What exactly was your solution? I need to know because I am having a similar problem.

This is the solution to IE7 not displaying the PDF. You basically have to redirect the page to the actual PDF file.

$pdf->Output('pdf/po'.$_SESSION['PODetails'][0]['PONo'].'.pdf');
header('Location: pdf/po'.$_SESSION['PODetails'][0]['PONo'].'.pdf');

As for your other problem, I had to be very specific with my widths as the code in my original post shows. If you copy what I have made and modify it to the widths you would like it should work as it did for me.