Hi all, I am working under a project. it needs to convert html page to pdf file. in that there is two tables and their fields are retrieved from the database. so the height of the table is dynamic. my doubt here is can i calculate that height of the table in php so that i can display the table header again if the table leads to the second page also?(though i know since php is server side scripting it is not aware of the browser's table length) I can calculate the length using javascript or jquery but since i'm using html2pdf class file to convert the html page to pdf that class wont accept that script tags. can any one help me?... Any help is appreciable. Thanks in advance.
I did a similar thing recently using DOMPDF... a great script, and works really well. I don't remember having to find heights for tables or anything. Failing that, you could probably use the imagettfbbox function in php to work out the size of strings etc.. I believe PDF files are fixed sizes, so once you work out the width of a string you can use it to work out how many rows that is ceil($totalstringwidth / $pdfwidth) will give you the number of lines high it is... obviously , you will need to take into consideration the padding/spacing on the tables too
Thanks for your replies guys, bencummins,i cant understand one thing what is that $pdfwidth stands for here?
I just did a quick google, Adobe Illustrator has the following for a new A4 pdf, at 72dpi Width=595.2756 px Height=841.8898 px