Changing or eliminating Header & Footer in TCPDF

Question

AddPage() in tcpdf automatically calls Header and Footer. How do I eliminate/override this?

Answer 1

Use the SetPrintHeader(false) and SetPrintFooter(false) methods before calling AddPage(). Like this:

$pdf = new TCPDF(PDF_PAGE_ORIENTATION, PDF_UNIT, 'LETTER', true, 'UTF-8', false);
$pdf->SetPrintHeader(false);
$pdf->SetPrintFooter(false);
$pdf->AddPage();

Answer 2

A nice easy way to have control over when to show the header - or bits of the header - is by extending the TCPDF class and creating your own header function like so:

  class YourPDF extends TCPDF {
        public function Header() {
            if (count($this->pages) === 1) { // Do this only on the first page
                $html .= '<p>Your header here</p>';
            }

            $this->writeHTML($html, true, false, false, false, '');
        }
    }

Naturally you can use this to return no content as well, if you'd prefer to have no header at all.

Answer 3

Here is an alternative way you can remove the Header and Footer:

// Remove the default header and footer
class PDF extends TCPDF { 
    public function Header() { 
    // No Header 
    } 
    public function Footer() { 
    // No Footer 
    } 
} 

$pdf = new PDF();

Answer 4

How do I eliminate/override this?

Also, Example 3 in the TCPDF docs shows how to override the header and footer with your own class.

Answer 5

// set default header data
$pdf->SetHeaderData('', PDF_HEADER_LOGO_WIDTH, 'marks', 'header string');

// set header and footer fonts
$pdf->setHeaderFont(Array(PDF_FONT_NAME_MAIN, '', PDF_FONT_SIZE_MAIN));
$pdf->setFooterFont(Array(PDF_FONT_NAME_DATA, '', PDF_FONT_SIZE_DATA));

With the help of above functions you can change header and footer.

Answer 6

Example:
- First page, no footer
- Second page, has footer, start with page no 1

Structure:

    // First page
    $pdf->startPageGroup();
    $pdf->setPrintFooter(false);

    $pdf->addPage();
    // ... add page content here
    $pdf->endPage();

    // Second page
    $pdf->startPageGroup();
    $pdf->setPrintFooter(true);

    $pdf->addPage();
    // ... add page content here
    $pdf->endPage();