Example PDF Generation as plugin

PdfController.php

<?php
namespace Aris\DailyReports\Controller;

/*                                                                        *
 * This script belongs to the TYPO3 Flow package "Aris.DailyReports".     *
 *                                                                        *
 *                                                                        */

use Aris\DailyReports\Utility\WkHtmlToPdfUtility;
use TYPO3\Flow\Annotations as Flow;

class PdfController extends \TYPO3\Flow\Mvc\Controller\ActionController {

	/**
	 * This is a very, very hacky way to do it. We should instead make it such that pages ending in .pdf will render the content
	 * and pipe it through the PDF generatoe. For now this does the trick (I hope).
	 *
	 * @return string
	 */
	public function renderAsPdfAction() {
		$currentUrl = $this->request->getHttpRequest()->getUri();
		$title = $this->request->getInternalArgument('__title');
	 	$htmlUrl = str_replace('.pdf', '.html', $currentUrl);
		$pdfUtility = new WkHtmlToPdfUtility();
		$pathToWkHtmlToPdfBinary = $this->settings['wkHtmlToPdfPath'];
		if (is_executable($pathToWkHtmlToPdfBinary) === FALSE) {
			throw new \Exception('Unable to call wkHtmlToPdf. Please configure with the full path to the binary in configuration Aris.DailyReports.wkHtmlToPdfPath');
		}

		$pdfUtility->setOptions(array(
			//'bin' => $pathToWkHtmlToPdfBinary . ' --print-media-type',
			'bin' => $pathToWkHtmlToPdfBinary . '',
			'enableEscaping' => FALSE
		));
		$pdfUtility->addPage($htmlUrl);
		$pdfUtility->send($title . '.pdf');
		exit();
	}
}