DOMPDF doesn't work with external css file

Question

I\'m using Zend Framework and DOMPDF library. When I test it with inline css everything works perfectly. But when I tried to move css code to the external file rules are not

Answer 1

This has in fact nothing to do with Zend Framework, but you need to supply DomPDF the right path to load the "external" files from.

$dompdf = new DOMPDF();
$dompdf->setBasePath(realpath(APPLICATION_PATH . '/path/to/css/'));
$dompdf->loadHtml($html);
$dompdf->render();

See also the manual of DomPDF for this feature.

Answer 2

@Jurian Sluiman is on the right track, though his answer did not help me, unfortunately.

I had to spend some time in order to find the solution that worked for me, which was using DOMPDF::set_protocol():

$dompdf->set_protocol(WWW_ROOT);
$dompdf->set_base_path('/');

WWW_ROOT here is a CakePHP constant pointing to the webroot folder of my application. Note that it has a trailing slash.

The best part is that this seems like improper usage of set_protocol(). But I'm fine with that as long as it makes the CSS work.

• https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf/search?q=set_protocol
• https://groups.google.com/forum/?_escaped_fragment_=topic/dompdf/uBWdQbug_dM
• http://code.google.com/p/dompdf/wiki/CSSCompatibility

Hope this saves someone else few hours of time.