Convert HTML to PDF using Qtwebkit with PHP

    RahulBy 1 Min Read

    Wkhtmltopdf is a very useful application to create pdf from html (webpage). This article will help to create pdf of a webpage using php script and Linux command line tool.

    Step 1: Install wkhtmltopdf in Linux

    Download wkhtmltopdf from google code and install to linux system.

    # cd /opt
# wget https://wkhtmltopdf.googlecode.com/files/wkhtmltopdf-0.9.9-static-i386.tar.bz2
# tar xjf wkhtmltopdf-0.9.9-static-i386.tar.bz2
# mv wkhtmltopdf-i386 /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf
# chown apache:apache /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf
# chmod +x /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf
    Step 2: Create Pdf Using Command Line

    First check wkhtmltopdf script it its properly working from command line. Below command will create pdf of http://google.com web page.

    # /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf http://google.com google.pdf
    Step 3: PHP Code to Create Pdf Using wkhtmltopdf

    Use below block of php code to generate pdf from html ( webpage ). This script required to be enabled shell_exec function for Apache. Most of shared hosting provides doesn’t allow this function.

    Create a file name getPdf.php using below code and put it on your website document root

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    <?php
     
    $url = $_GET['url'];    // Website URL to Create pdf
    $name = $_GET['pdf'];   // Output pdf name
     
    $command = "/usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf ";
    $pdf_dir = "/var/www/html/pdfs/";     // Pdf files will be saved here
    $ex_cmd = "$command $url " . $pdf_dir . $name;
    $output = shell_exec($ex_cmd);
     
    ?>

    Open Following url to generate pdf of website ( html ).

    Syntax:
    http://youdomain.com/getPdf.php?url=<website url>&pdf=<pdf name>

    Example:
    https://tecadmin.net/getPdf.php?url=http://google.com&pdf=google.pdf


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