Download Free: Mpdf

1. Introduction MPDF is a powerful PHP library that generates PDF files from HTML content. It uses the Unicode and HTML rendering engine to convert HTML with CSS styles into a PDF document. The "MPDF download" process refers to generating and forcing a PDF file to be downloaded by the user's browser rather than displayed or saved on the server.

// Create download.php // download.php content: if (isset($_GET['file'])) $file = . '/uploads/pdfs/' . basename($_GET['file']); if (file_exists($file)) header('Content-Type: application/pdf'); header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . basename($file) . '"'); header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file)); readfile($file); exit; mpdf download

// Force download $mpdf->Output('document.pdf', 'D'); The second parameter in Output() defines the destination: The "MPDF download" process refers to generating and

$mpdf = new Mpdf($config); // Enable auto-size for large tables $mpdf->shrink_tables_to_fit = 1; // Add CSS $stylesheet = file_get_contents('styles/pdf.css'); $mpdf->WriteHTML($stylesheet, \Mpdf\HTMLParserMode::HEADER_CSS); // Add HTML content $mpdf->WriteHTML($htmlContent, \Mpdf\HTMLParserMode::HTML_BODY); // Set headers for download header('Content-Type: application/pdf'); header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . $filename . '"'); header('Cache-Control: private, max-age=0, must-revalidate'); header('Pragma: public'); // Output PDF $mpdf->Output($filename, 'D'); exit; catch (\Mpdf\MpdfException $e) // Handle error die('PDF generation failed: ' . $e->getMessage()); ?php require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php'

| Mode | Description | |------|-------------| | D | Force download (file dialog) | | I | Inline display (browser PDF viewer) | | F | Save to server file | | S | Return as string | 5.1 Complete Download Handler with Headers <?php require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php'; use Mpdf\Mpdf; use Mpdf\Config\ConfigVariables; use Mpdf\Config\FontVariables;

// Create MPDF instance $mpdf = new Mpdf();

// Return download URL return '/download.php?file=' . urlencode($filename);