how to convert dynamic contents of html page to pdf

Question

In html page some tags are dynamically created using jquery and contents are loaded from msql db using jquery and php. I want convert this dynamic page to pdf. I have tried following code but it generate pdf of static part of html page.

<?php
    ob_start();
?>
//html code and internal css, javascript used in external file with jquery library
<?php
  include('dompdf/dompdf_config.inc.php');
  $contents = ob_get_contents();
  ob_end_clean();
  $dompdf = new DOMPDF();
  $dompdf->load_html($contents);
  $dompdf->render();
  $dompdf->stream('file.pdf'); 
?>

So how to store contents of dynamic html page in a php variable after processing it ( using javascript/php ) and convert it to pdf usin dompdf or other converter.

Answer 1

I'd suggest you take a look at wkhtmltopdf. I've had good results with getting it to render google charts, which are built dynamically from a javascript api.

http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/

Answer 2

As Marc said, you have to read generated DOM with javascript.. something like $('html').html() and then post it to php to generate pdf

Answer 3

This may not meet exactly what you are looking for, but wkhtmltopdf could be what you need. Since PHP is a server-side technology, you will have a difficult time getting it to process any client-side javascript. wkhtmltopdf scans the page, javascript and all, then generates a pdf file on the server. Hope this helps you out!

Answer 4

Consider using a tool like wkhtmltopdf to directly generate a page as a PDF. It will run javascript and generate the page as WebKit would render it.