cannot open pdf file generated using dompdf

Question

i am trying to generate a pdf file from smarty template using dompdf:code is below:-

require_once(\'dompdf/dompdf_config.inc.php\');
$dompdf = new DOMPDF();
         


        

Answer 1

yes this is an problem of dompdf. But I am able to overcome from this problem. I created a function for pdf creation. check below function:-

function pdf_create($html, $filename='', $stream=TRUE) 
{
    require_once("dompdf/dompdf_config.inc.php");
    $savein = 'uploads/policy_doc/';
    $dompdf = new DOMPDF();
    $dompdf->load_html($html);
    $dompdf->render();
    $canvas = $dompdf->get_canvas();
    $font = Font_Metrics::get_font("arial", "normal","12px");

    // the same call as in my previous example
    $canvas->page_text(540, 773, "Page {PAGE_NUM} of {PAGE_COUNT}",
                   $font, 6, array(0,0,0));

    $pdf = $dompdf->output();      // gets the PDF as a string

    file_put_contents($savein.str_replace("/","-",$filename), $pdf);    // save the pdf file on server
    unset($html);
    unset($dompdf); 

}

Note :- You need to get generated pdf as string then save it to pdf file.

EDIT :- You may delete the below part from above function:-

    $canvas = $dompdf->get_canvas();
    $font = Font_Metrics::get_font("arial", "normal","12px");

    // the same call as in my previous example
    $canvas->page_text(540, 773, "Page {PAGE_NUM} of {PAGE_COUNT}",
                   $font, 6, array(0,0,0));

this above code for handling multiple pages header.