mpdf-fixed/mpdf

A PHP class to generate PDF files from HTML with Unicode/UTF-8 and CJK support

mPDF is a PHP class which generates PDF files from UTF-8 encoded HTML. It is based on FPDF and HTML2FPDF (see CREDITS), with a number of enhancements. mPDF was written by Ian Back and is released under the GNU GPL v2 licence., _(*1)

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Installation

Preferred installation method is via composer and its packagist package mpdf/mpdf., _(*3)

Manual installation

• Download the .zip release file and unzip it
• Create a folder e.g. /mpdf on your server
• Upload all of the files to the server, maintaining the folders as they are

• Ensure that you have write permissions set (CHMOD 6xx or 7xx) for the following folders:, _(*4)

  /ttfontdata/ - used to cache font data; improves performance a lot, _(*5)

  /tmp/ - used for some images and ProgressBar, _(*6)

  /graph_cache/ - if you are using JpGraph in conjunction with mPDF, _(*7)

To test the installation, point your browser to the basic example file:, _(*8)

[path_to_mpdf_folder]/mpdf/examples/example01_basic.php

If you wish to define a different folder for temporary files rather than /tmp/ see the note on Folder for temporary files in the section on Installation & Setup in the manual., _(*9)

If you have problems, please read the section on troubleshooting in the manual., _(*10)

Online manual

Online manual is available at https://mpdf.github.io/., _(*11)

Unit Testing

Unit testing for mPDF is done using PHPUnit., _(*12)

To get started, run composer install from the command line while in the mPDF root directory (you'll need composer installed first)., _(*13)

To execute tests, run vendor/bin/phpunit from the command line while in the mPDF root directory., _(*14)

Any assistance writing unit tests for mPDF is greatly appreciated. If you'd like to help, please note that any PHP file located in the /tests/ directory will be autoloaded when unit testing., _(*15)