PDF or image generator

Description

It provides the following functionalities

• Converting webpage content, HTML string or file into image.
• Converting webpage content, HTML string or file into PDF.

Getting Started

Configuration

• Go to plugin settings page through settings menu or settings link under plugin name in the plugins page.
• Download wkhtmltox from here.
• Run that executable file then it will create wkhtmltox folder. Enter the absolute path of the files inside wkhtmltox->bin files.

Usage

• We have to call the following function with specified paramters and it will return the generated PDF/image path.

  PDFIG_generate($src, $src_type, $dest_file_name, $conversion_type);

  • $src is required, expected string. Ex: “http://osmosys.asia”, “home/osmosys/test.php” etc.
  • $src_type is required, expected string. It specifies what is the source type, It can be one of the 3 values which are specified in the possible values. Possible values: “TEMPLATE_PATH”, “HTML_STRING”, “URL”.
  • $dest_file_name is optional, expected string. It is the file with which file will get downloaded. Ex: “test” etc.
  • $conversion_type is optional, expected string. It specifies to which format we have to convert the given source, it can be one among the 2 values which are specified in the possible values. Possible values: “PDF”, “IMG”.
• Simply insert the following shortcode [PDFIG_generator_demo] for a demo page.