// Add HTML content $html = '<h1>Hello World</h1><p>This is a PDF generated by MPDF.</p>'; $mpdf->WriteHTML($html);
// Usage $html = ' <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Invoice</title> </head> <body> <h1>Invoice #12345</h1> <p>Date: ' . date('Y-m-d') . '</p> <table border="1" cellpadding="8"> <tr><th>Item</th><th>Price</th></tr> <tr><td>Product A</td><td>$50</td></tr> <tr><td>Product B</td><td>$30</td></tr> </table> </body> </html>';
$mpdf = new Mpdf($config); // Enable auto-size for large tables $mpdf->shrink_tables_to_fit = 1; // Add CSS $stylesheet = file_get_contents('styles/pdf.css'); $mpdf->WriteHTML($stylesheet, \Mpdf\HTMLParserMode::HEADER_CSS); // Add HTML content $mpdf->WriteHTML($htmlContent, \Mpdf\HTMLParserMode::HTML_BODY); // Set headers for download header('Content-Type: application/pdf'); header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . $filename . '"'); header('Cache-Control: private, max-age=0, must-revalidate'); header('Pragma: public'); // Output PDF $mpdf->Output($filename, 'D'); exit; catch (\Mpdf\MpdfException $e) // Handle error die('PDF generation failed: ' . $e->getMessage()); mpdf download
generateAndDownloadPDF($html, 'invoice_' . date('Ymd') . '.pdf'); <?php function savePDFAndGetLink($htmlContent, $filename) $mpdf = new \Mpdf\Mpdf(); $mpdf->WriteHTML($htmlContent); // Save to server (F mode) $savePath = __DIR__ . '/uploads/pdfs/' . $filename; $mpdf->Output($savePath, 'F');
1. Introduction MPDF is a powerful PHP library that generates PDF files from HTML content. It uses the Unicode and HTML rendering engine to convert HTML with CSS styles into a PDF document. The "MPDF download" process refers to generating and forcing a PDF file to be downloaded by the user's browser rather than displayed or saved on the server. $filename
// Return download URL return '/download.php?file=' . urlencode($filename);
| Mode | Description | |------|-------------| | D | Force download (file dialog) | | I | Inline display (browser PDF viewer) | | F | Save to server file | | S | Return as string | 5.1 Complete Download Handler with Headers <?php require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php'; use Mpdf\Mpdf; use Mpdf\Config\ConfigVariables; use Mpdf\Config\FontVariables; date('Ymd')
function generateAndDownloadPDF($htmlContent, $filename = 'document.pdf') try // Configuration $config = [ 'mode' => 'utf-8', 'format' => 'A4', 'orientation' => 'P', // Portrait 'margin_left' => 15, 'margin_right' => 15, 'margin_top' => 16, 'margin_bottom' => 16, 'margin_header' => 9, 'margin_footer' => 9, 'default_font_size' => 10, 'default_font' => 'dejavusans', 'auto_language_detection' => true, ];