html2fpdf script doesn't generate PDF

ivy_76

Hello everybody

I am getting crazy to find a way for creating a PDF file from a PHP script. I found this last script but i cannot make it work properly.

This is where i downloaded the project files :

http://sourceforge.net/projects/html2fpdf/

And this is the PHP file which should create the PDF file

<?php
require_once("html2fpdf.php");
$html=file_get_contents("ivano.html");
$pdf=new HTML2FPDF();
$pdf -> AddPage();
$pdf -> WriteHTML($html);
$pdf -> Output ('prova.pdf','I');
?>

Instead of seeing the file IVANO.HTML that is the following i see strange characters on the screen. How can i fix it ?

This is the HTML code

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<body>
HELLO
</body>
</html>

This is what i see

%PDF-1.3 3 0 obj <> endobj 4 0 obj <> stream xœ•?Â Åw>ÅK']øW°0¸˜¨‰›†0‰61&]üú¡&]\8xw?îÝIœ§ºÃ›ìØA@Ê9Ü{Gò•£O9gïB|åT>N‡àˆä…)Õ#} m5´ÞPà"Vð×á9ŒÛær‹MXÃ=R/œ)£¨±…ò¬Pø×V™PÂÖ‹ÒÎ•Š[*L^‰êŠ ÁDm¿°°7-HZ endstream endobj 1 0 obj <> endobj 5 0 obj <> endobj 6 0 obj <> endobj 7 0 obj <> endobj 2 0 obj <<< /F1 5 0 R /F2 6 0 R /F3 7 0 R >> >> endobj 8 0 obj << /Producer (FPDF 1.52) /Creator (HTML2FPDF >> http://html2fpdf.sf.net) /CreationDate (D:20091125192228) >> endobj 9 0 obj << /Type /Catalog /Pages 1 0 R /OpenAction [3 0 R /FitH null] /PageLayout /OneColumn >> endobj xref 0 10 0000000000 65535 f 0000000321 00000 n 0000000709 00000 n 0000000009 00000 n 0000000087 00000 n 0000000408 00000 n 0000000504 00000 n 0000000605 00000 n 0000000817 00000 n 0000000941 00000 n trailer << /Size 10 /Root 9 0 R /Info 8 0 R >> startxref 1044 %%EOF

dagon

how are you opening the output file, prova.pdf ?

ivy_76

I am sorry i dont understand what you mean. Doesn't it open using

$pdf -> Output ('prova.pdf','I');

I mean: i suppose it makes the 'prova.pdf' file by reading the 'ivano.html' file and then show it on my screen.
Prova.pdf should be identical to ivano.html shouldn't it ?

ivy_76

If write

$pdf -> Output ('prova.pdf');

Without the second parameter the prova.pdf file is saved on my hard disk but not opened.

Reading the function that creates the pdf file i saw that parameter "I" means "send it to the screen", parameter "F" save to disk, "D" means "download it"

Can be a problem with my PDF reader ? I dont use Acrobat

This is the code

switch($dest)
{
case 'I':
//Send to standard output
if(isset($HTTP_SERVER_VARS['SERVER_NAME']))
{
//We send to a browser
Header('Content-Type: application/pdf');
if(headers_sent())
$this->Error('Some data has already been output to browser, can\'t send PDF file');
Header('Content-Length: '.strlen($this->buffer));
Header('Content-disposition: inline; filename='.$name);
}
echo $this->buffer;
break;
case 'D':
//Download file
if(isset($HTTP_SERVER_VARS['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) and strpos($HTTP_SERVER_VARS['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],'MSIE'))
Header('Content-Type: application/force-download');
else
Header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
if(headers_sent())
$this->Error('Some data has already been output to browser, can\'t send PDF file');
Header('Content-Length: '.strlen($this->buffer));
Header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename='.$name);
echo $this->buffer;
break;
case 'F':
//Save to local file
$f=fopen($name,'wb');
if(!$f) $this->Error('Unable to create output file: '.$name);
fwrite($f,$this->buffer,strlen($this->buffer));
fclose($f);
break;
case 'S':
//Return as a string
return $this->buffer;
default:
$this->Error('Incorrect output destination: '.$dest);
}

dagon

Prova.pdf is a pdf, based on what you say you see, it does not look like your opening it in something that understands the pdf format.

ivy_76

Ok i fix in another way.

$pdf -> Output ('prova.pdf');

In this way the PDF file is created on my hard disk, then i open it by JS using the window.open function

I have another problem now !! The PDF file generated is made up of 4-5 or even more pages. I would like to have page-break in a specific point that i decided.

Let's go step by step. The program now works in this way:

I read some datas from a MYSQL Table
I put this data in a variable. This variable contains several columns that are popolated reading by the MYSQL table.
$var = "<table><tr><td>$data1</Td><td>$data2</Td></tr>"; and so on
At the end of the table i put this HTML code that should insert a page-break
<DIV style='page-break-before: always;'> then another table is created as in point #2
All these datas creates a HTML file. If i open it using my browser and i send a print preview it works. Each page is separated as i want !
Then i read the HTML file and create the PDF file but now the PDF file loose the page-break and the result sucks !!

Is there any other way to preserve the page-break ?

I am sorry if you dont understand me perfectly i am not english mother language