How do I get WKHTMLTOPDF to execute via PHP?

Question

This has been asked to some degree before but there are no solutions or accepted answers and I\'d like to try and be more comprehensive in my question so:

I\'m tryin

Answer 1

This worked for me as a way to pre-generate a PDF report then use a unique session ID to fetch it from the requesting page (of the same session).

$cmd = "/usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf 'http://127.0.0.1/myApp/pdfReport.php?key=something' tmp_reports/report_".$_POST['sessionid'].".pdf";
exec($cmd);