Installing fpdf in Yii vendor

Yii 1.1 Extensions
1

I am trying to work with fpdf class in yii. So I import the total fpdf folder in yii vendor folder then tried to import in view file like:


Yii::import('application.vendors.*');

require_once('fpdf/fpdf.php');

then just paste a class as follows


// Page header

function Header()

{

    // Logo

    $this->Image('logo.png',10,6,30);

    // Arial bold 15

    $this->SetFont('Arial','B',15);

    // Move to the right

    $this->Cell(80);

    // Title

    $this->Cell(30,10,'Title',1,0,'C');

    // Line break

    $this->Ln(20);

}


// Page footer

function Footer()

{

    // Position at 1.5 cm from bottom

    $this->SetY(-15);

    // Arial italic 8

    $this->SetFont('Arial','I',<img src='http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/cool.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='8)' />;

    // Page number

    $this->Cell(0,10,'Page '.$this->PageNo().'/{nb}',0,0,'C');

}

}


// Instanciation of inherited class

$pdf = new PDF();

$pdf->AliasNbPages();

$pdf->AddPage();

$pdf->SetFont('Times','',12);

for($i=1;$i<=40;$i++)

    $pdf->Cell(0,10,'Printing line number '.$i,0,1);

$pdf->Output();

?>

But that ends up with a error as "This pdf document might not be displayed correctly. And if I try to download and view then it says “File type HTML document (text/html) is not supported”. I added “header(‘Content-Type: application/pdf’);” on the view file with no help.

can anyone help?

2

I use FPDF in Yii 1, not sure if Yii 2 is different in how layouts are handled, but it is critical to have a totally empty layout specifically dedicated for fpdf: namely <?php echo $content; ?>, where $content = the output of $pdf. You have to specify this layout in the controller that renders the view.