going crazy - PHP to PDF?

I'm trying to send some code to print as avery labels using PDF, it's proving to be a nightmare. could anyone give me a hand, i've tried everything, making it into a function and using fpdf to print the function, didn't work...i'm going mad, 48hours working on the same problem (i am new to php, just my first week).

<div class="label" style="background-image:url(<?php echo $user_background;?>); background-size:100%;">
<div>
<header id="header">
  <div class="header-stuff">
	<hgroup>
	  <h1>
		  <a href="<?php echo $home; ?>">
			  <img width="150" border="0" alt="<?php echo $sitename; ?>" src="account/img/logo.png">
		  </a>
		  <span class="user-name" style="margin-left:50px; margin-top:-1px;"><?php echo  $user; ?></span>
  </h1>
	</hgroup>
  </div>
</header>
<!-- qr code -->
<div align="center" style="width:120px; height:120px; background-color:#fff; margin-left:10pt; margin-top:30pt;">
<table height="100%"><tr><td valign="middle">
<?php			echo '<img src="http://www.avatar.es/'.$user.'" alt="QR code" widhtHeight="100" />';

		?></td></tr></table>
        </div>
</div>
<!-- footer -->
<div style="width:100%; background-color:#0B0B0B; bottom:0; margin-top:31px;" align="right">
		  <span class="user-name" style="font-size:30px; margin-right:10px;"><?php echo  $name; ?></span>
</div>

PHP:

i'm going meeeeeeeental. please help.

 

ok so mpdf is now loading a pdf but it's not loading any of the php variables...

 

can you post the rest of php code so we can see where you are trying to load the variables etc?