TCPDF with CodeIgniter - Printable Version

Code:

# override the default TCPDF config file

/* commented out by bill 21apr 2011

if(!defined('K_TCPDF_EXTERNAL_CONFIG')) {

 define('K_TCPDF_EXTERNAL_CONFIG', TRUE);

}

*/

# include TCPDF

require(APPPATH.'config/tcpdf_ci'.EXT);

require_once($tcpdf['base_directory'].'tcpdf.php');

Code:

function showtrolley(){

  $this->load->library('pdf');



  // set document information

  $this->pdf->SetCreator(PDF_CREATOR);

  $this->pdf->SetAuthor('Klee Paper');

  $this->pdf->SetTitle('Order Preparation - Not yet sent');

  $this->pdf->SetSubject('Order in Progress');



  $this->pdf->reportinit();

  // FreeSans, DejaVuSans, Helvetica, PDFAHelvetica, Arial, Born, Frutiger

  // $ix = 11;

  //$this->pdf->SetFont($this->pdf->installedfonts[$ix]);

  $this->pdf->SetFont('PDFAHelvetica','',9);



  //$this->pdf->Write(0,'Date: '.date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $data['main']['transdate']));

  //etc etc etc

  //etc etc etc

               // finally

               $filename = 'order_prep'.date("YmdHis", time()) .'.pdf';



  if ($asfile == TRUE) {

   $filepath = APPPATH.'pdfcache/'; // codeigniter/application/pdfcache

   $fullname = $filepath . $filename;

   $this->pdf->Output($fullname, 'F');



   $this->load->helper('download');

   $data = file_get_contents($fullname);

   force_download($filename, $data);

  } else {

   return $this->pdf->Output($filename, 'I');

  }

}