Header in PDF page using DOMPDF in PHP

Question

I am creating a PDF file using DOMPDF. I have a big content to extract in PDF, we need some header in all the pages. So can anyone telme how to add a header and footer in th

Answer 1

There is a FAQ entry on the DOMPDF wiki: Is there a way to add headers and footers or page numbers?.

So you can either add the following "inline PHP"-snippet to your HTML-input (add a similar page_text-call for your footer):

If you rather want to implement this on your caller-side (meaning in the PHP code directly) you have to call the DOMPDFS's get_canvas()-method which returns the underlying PDF-Renderer which allows you to call the page_text method like in the example above. Let me show you what I mean:

// your dompdf setup        
$dompdf = new DOMPDF();

$dompdf->load_html($html);
$dompdf->render();

// add the header
$canvas = $dompdf->get_canvas();
$font = Font_Metrics::get_font("helvetica", "bold");

// the same call as in my previous example
$canvas->page_text(72, 18, "Header: {PAGE_NUM} of {PAGE_COUNT}",
                   $font, 6, array(0,0,0));

Eventually you have to call page_text after load_html (just try it out).