Generate a PDF with PHP

Learn how to generate a PDF file using PHP. PDF files are useful because the formatting is always reliable - its contents will always display in exactly the same way no matter where you are viewing it. Full PHP course: ➤ https://davehollingworth.com/courses/ Please consider supporting my channel: ☕ https://ko-fi.com/davehollingworth In this video you'll learn how to: • use the Dompdf library to generate a PDF file • make the browser download the file or open it inline • add styling to the PDF content • insert images • insert user-supplied, dynamic content • use inline, embedded and external CSS for styling • save the generated PDF file locally Also learn how to easily fix the common Dompdf problem when inserting images: "Image not found or type unknown". Code shown in the video: ‣ https://gist.github.com/daveh/88ff8c5... Dompdf package: ‣ https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf Sample image: ‣ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service... Thumbnail icon: ‣ https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/pdf CSS: ‣ https://watercss.kognise.dev/ ‣ https://github.com/BafS/Gutenberg 00:00 Introduction 00:35 Install Dompdf 01:02 Basic PDF generation 02:49 Change PDF filename 03:25 Display PDF inline 04:21 Styling and layout 05:23 Images 06:14 Setting options 1 06:47 Setting options 2 07:36 Setting page options 08:16 Document metadata 09:08 Create the form 10:11 Classless CSS 10:42 Dynamic data 11:55 HTML template 16:19 Using CSS 17:52 Enable remote resources 18:13 Save PDFs locally 18:59 Summary #PHP #PDF