In this tutorial I explains how to generate PDF from MySQL Data using PHP. You are going to see how to convert MySQL Data into PDF using FPDF library.
What id FPDF ?
FPDF is a PHP class which allows to generate PDF files with PHP, that is to say without using the PDFlib library. F from FPDF stands for Free: you may use it for any kind of usage and modify it to suit your needs.
FPDF has other advantages: high level functions. Here is a list of its main features:
- Choice of measure unit, page format and margins
- Page header and footer management
- Automatic page break
- Automatic line break and text justification
- Image support (JPEG, PNG and GIF)
- Colors
- Links
- TrueType, Type1 and encoding support
- Page compression
The following snippet show a basic PDF generated with FPDF :
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<?php require('fpdf/fpdf.php'); $pdf = new FPDF(); $pdf->AddPage(); $pdf->SetFont('Arial','B',12); $pdf->Cell(46,12,$column_heading,1); $pdf->Output(); ?> |
First a db with empadata. Under db empdata create table tblemployee-
Structure of tblemployee
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CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `tblemployee` ( `EmpId` int(11) NOT NULL, `EmpName` varchar(100) DEFAULT NULL, `EmpDepartment` varchar(100) DEFAULT NULL, `EmpRegDate` timestamp NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=7 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1; INSERT INTO `tblemployee` (`EmpId`, `EmpName`, `EmpDepartment`, `EmpRegDate`) VALUES (1, 'Anuj kumar', 'Development', '2017-06-08 01:47:41'), (2, 'Amit ', 'HR', '2017-07-02 09:47:41'), (3, 'Garima', 'Accountant', '2016-10-14 12:48:31'), (4, 'John', 'Designing', '2017-07-01 09:48:31'), (5, 'Rahul', 'Support', '2017-06-14 09:49:00'), (6, 'Sanjeev', 'Operations', '2017-07-01 04:49:00'); ALTER TABLE `tblemployee` ADD PRIMARY KEY (`EmpId`); ALTER TABLE `tblemployee` MODIFY `EmpId` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,AUTO_INCREMENT=7; |
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<?php require_once("config.php"); require('fpdf/fpdf.php'); $pdf = new FPDF(); $pdf->AddPage(); // code for print Heading of tables $pdf->SetFont('Arial','B',12); $ret ="SELECT `COLUMN_NAME` FROM `INFORMATION_SCHEMA`.`COLUMNS` WHERE `TABLE_SCHEMA`='empdata' AND `TABLE_NAME`='tblemployee'"; $query1 = $dbh -> prepare($ret); $query1->execute(); $header=$query1->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_OBJ); $cnt=1; if($query1->rowCount() > 0) { foreach($header as $heading) { foreach($heading as $column_heading) $pdf->Cell(46,12,$column_heading,1); }} //code for print data $sql = "SELECT * from tblemployee "; $query = $dbh -> prepare($sql); $query->execute(); $results=$query->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_OBJ); $cnt=1; if($query->rowCount() > 0) { foreach($results as $row) { $pdf->SetFont('Arial','',12); $pdf->Ln(); foreach($row as $column) $pdf->Cell(46,12,$column,1); } } $pdf->Output(); ?> |
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hi….thanks u the code is working…but how to change a particular cell width in this…
make changes in this line $pdf->Cell(46,12,$column_heading,1);
Hi anuj,Thank you for ur reply… while changing with $pdf->Cell(46,12,$column_heading,1); all the cells width is increased …i need to increase the cell width of the last cell alone … any suggestions
do i have to create a schema first
yes
how to make page landscape
Visit this tutorial—https://phpgurukul.com/how-to-convert-html-to-pdf-using-dompdf-in-php/
thanks