mPDF with CodeIgniter

Tudip

24 June 2016

mPDF is a PHP library which generates PDF files from UTF-8 encoded HTML. It is based on FPDF and HTML2FPDF with a number of enhancements. In the point following you will learn about integration of mPDF with CodeIgniter.

• Download mPDF. You can check online manual at http://www.mpdf1.com/

• Now lets look at the integration of mPDF with CodeIgniter

• Download mPDF library folder using download link mentioned above.

• Copy this downloaded folder to third party directory of your CI project.

  application/third_party/mpdf
  

• Copy mpdf.php which is the library file of the mPDF and paste into libraries folder of the project.

  Copy from : mpdf/mpdf.php and paste inside : application/libraries/
  

• Load this library in to auto load if you want it to be available everywhere readily.

Now lets write a simple program using mpdf. The following PHP code will produce the most basic example with mPDF.

• Include the main file containing the mpdf class :

      include('../mpdf.php');
  

• Create an instance of the class:

      $mpdf = new mPDF();
  

• Write some HTML code:

      $mpdf->WriteHTML('<p>Hello Tudip Technologies</p>');
  

• Output a PDF file:

      $mpdf->Output();
      exit;