pdf creation snippet

printDownload.php

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL); 
ini_set('display_errors', 1);


$domain     = 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
$cache_path = ($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']. '/cache/');
$url        = $domain . strtok($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"],'?');    // requested URL w/o params
$full_url   = $domain . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];                // for example    http://devamcomau.int.fxservice.com/trading-platforms/mt4-se/indicator-innovations
$cultureKey = ('_' . $modx->getOption('cultureKey'));
$pdf_type   = (isset($_GET['pdf_type']) ? (strip_tags($_GET['pdf_type'])) : false);
$fileName   = ($modx->resource->get('alias')) . $pdf_type . $cultureKey . '.pdf';
$dir        = ($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']. '/cache/pdf/');
$filePath   = ($dir . $fileName);
/*
$pdf_download_name  = '_download';
$pdf_print_name     = '_print';
$pdf_download_dir   = ($dir . $modx->resource->get('alias') . $pdf_download_name) . $cultureKey . '.pdf';
$pdf_print_dir      = ($dir . $modx->resource->get('alias') . $pdf_print_name) . $cultureKey . '.pdf';
*/
if($pdf_type) {

$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1,
    CURLOPT_URL => $url
));
$result = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);

// parse target page, get content for pdf
$xml = new DOMDocument();
libxml_use_internal_errors(true); // to prevent possible warnings show
$xml->loadHtml($result);
libxml_use_internal_errors(false);

$xpath = new DOMXPath($xml);

$html = '';

foreach ($xpath->query('//div[@id="content"]/node()') as $node)

{
    $html .= $xml->saveHTML($node);

}

$html = str_replace("http://dce5jani6jm7e.cloudfront.net/", "/assets/common/", $html);  // result html to convert to pdf, switch to local image paths

        $mode           = 'utf-8';
        //$format         = ($cultureKey === '_de') ? ('A4-L') : 'A4';
        $format         = 'A4';
        $font_size      ='';
        $font           = '';
        $margin_left    = 20;
        $margin_right   = 12;
        $margin_top     = 35;
        $margin_bottom  = '';
        $margin_header  = 15;
        $margin_footer  = '';
        $orientation    = '';

        $mpdf = new mPDF($mode, $format, $font_size, $font, $margin_left, $margin_right, $margin_top, $margin_bottom, $margin_header, $margin_footer, $orientation);
//$mpdf->showImageErrors = true; /* Show custom images in PDF file */
//$mpdf->autoScriptToLang = true;
//$mpdf->autoLangToFont = true;

            $htmlTpl = array(
                'header' => '<div>
						        <table width="100%">
						            <tr width="100%">
						                <td width="50%" style="border: 0;"><img src="{{logo}}" alt="" style="width: 150px;" /></td>
						                <td width="50%" style="border: 0;" align="right">
											<p style="font-size: 11px;line-height: 9px;">{{legalName}}</p>
											<p style="font-size: 11px;line-height: 9px;">{{address}}</p>
											<p style="font-size: 11px;line-height: 9px;">{{country}}</p>
											<p style="font-size: 11px;line-height: 9px;">{{main_phone}}</p>
											<p style="font-size: 11px;line-height: 9px;">{{compliance_email}}</p>
						                </td>
						            </tr>
						        </table>
						    </div>',
                'footer' => '<div class="text-center">
		    					<p style="font-size: 11px;line-height: 15px;">{{legalName}}</p>
								<p style="font-size: 11px;line-height: 15px;">Registered Office: As Above 2/2</p>
								<p style="font-size: 11px;line-height: 15px;">Registered Number: 08171762</p>
								<p style="font-size: 11px;line-height: 15px;">Authorised and Regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority FRN: 595450</p>
                            </div>'
            );

            function replaceString($string, $array) {
                return strtr($string, $array);
            };

            $mpdf->SetHTMLHeader(replaceString($htmlTpl['header'],
                array(
                    '{{logo}}' => $domain . '/assets/common/images/elements/logo.png',
                    '{{legalName}}' => $modx->getOption('legalName'),
                    '{{address}}' => $modx->getOption('address'),
                    '{{country}}' => $modx->getOption('country'),
                    '{{main_phone}}' => ($cultureKey === '_de') ? $modx->getOption('local_phone1') : $modx->getOption('main_phone'),
                    '{{compliance_email}}' => ($cultureKey === '_de') ? $modx->getOption('support_email') : $modx->getOption('compliance_email')
                )
            ), 'O', true);
            
//$html=utf8_encode($html);
$mpdf->WriteHTML($html);


if($pdf_type == 'download') {
    $mpdf->Output($fileName,'D');
}
if($pdf_type == 'print') {
    //header('Content-type: application/pdf');
    //readfile($fileName);
    $mpdf->SetJS('this.print();');
    $mpdf->Output($fileName,'I');
}

exit();
}