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
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 | <?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
Will this work in CentOS5?