Integrating fpdf 1.81 with phalcon

make sure lib is installed composer require setasign/fpdf:1.8.1

and add this at the beginning

require 'vendor/autoload.php'

$loader->registerDirs(
    [
        $config->application->controllersDir,
        $config->application->modelsDir,
        $config->application->libraryDir,

    ]
)->register();

registerDirs is NOT recursive, so it will only register classes in that folder, but none in child directories. Do it as @Izopi4a recommended, use composer to download the lib and then require the vendor autoload in the loader.php to use it in your app.

Thank you for the quick respond.

I installed fpdf by the composer and my vendor folder is placed inside app fodler :

testapp/app/vendor   //phalcon folder 

as you proposed.

in index.php I added code as you proposed

<?php
use Phalcon\Di\FactoryDefault;

error_reporting(E_ALL);

define('BASE_PATH', dirname(__DIR__));
define('APP_PATH', BASE_PATH . '/app');

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

Now, my application does not work at all.

What's wrong ? sorry, I am not an experienced user. Can you help me. Thanks in advance.

make sure lib is installed composer require setasign/fpdf:1.8.1

and add this at the beginning

require 'vendor/autoload.php'

Preferred way to include Composer's autoloader in Phalcon:

//Include composer autoloader - Phalcon way as of 3.0.x
$loader->registerFiles([APP_PATH . '/vendor/autoload.php']);

your index.php (if placed in public or so dir) shall look like:

//Define APP_PATH
define('APP_PATH', realpath('..'));

Thank you for your inputs..

My loader.php looks like this :

<?php

$loader = new \Phalcon\Loader();

/**
 * We're a registering a set of directories taken from the configuration file
 */
$loader->registerDirs(
    [
        $config->application->controllersDir,
        $config->application->modelsDir,
        $config->application->libraryDir,

    ]
)->register();

$loader->registerFiles([APP_PATH . '/vendor/autoload.php']);

By CTRL + clicking in my PHPStorm inside showpdf.php on FPDF() Class declaration i see the component source

$pdf = new FPDF();

However, when i run showpdf.php i still see only echoed 'aaaaa' from the code i posted earlier. ..

Am I missing something again ?

I'm looking forward for your help. Definitelly thanks in advance. :)

Preferred way to include Composer's autoloader in Phalcon:

//Include composer autoloader - Phalcon way as of 3.0.x
$loader->registerFiles([APP_PATH . '/vendor/autoload.php']);

your index.php (if placed in public or so dir) shall look like:

//Define APP_PATH
define('APP_PATH', realpath('..'));

FYI: this lib (FPDF) sux when it comes to performance.

Here's working Phalcon Micro example with your code:

<?php
use Phalcon\Mvc\Micro;

$loader = new Phalcon\Loader();

//Include composer autoloader - Phalcon way as of 3.0.x
$loader->registerFiles([realpath('.') . '/vendor/autoload.php']);
// Register autoloader
$loader->register();

$app = new Micro();

$app->get(
    '/',
    function () {
    echo 'aaaaa';
    $pdf = new FPDF();
    $pdf->AddPage();
    $pdf->SetFont('Arial','B',16);
    $pdf->Cell(40,10,' Hello PDF World');
    $pdf->Output();
    echo 'proba4';

return 0xff;
    }
);

$app->handle();

Wait what? Are you from hungary? :D

echo 'proba4';

Here's working Phalcon Micro example with your code:

<?php
use Phalcon\Mvc\Micro;

$loader = new Phalcon\Loader();

//Include composer autoloader - Phalcon way as of 3.0.x
$loader->registerFiles([realpath('.') . '/vendor/autoload.php']);
// Register autoloader
$loader->register();

$app = new Micro();

$app->get(
   '/',
   function () {
   echo 'aaaaa';
   $pdf = new FPDF();
   $pdf->AddPage();
   $pdf->SetFont('Arial','B',16);
   $pdf->Cell(40,10,' Hello PDF World');
   $pdf->Output();
   echo 'proba4';

return 0xff;
   }
);

$app->handle();

Root cause of your problem was wrong Loader usage:

$loader = new \Phalcon\Loader();

/**
 * We're a registering a set of directories taken from the configuration file
 */
$loader->registerDirs(
    [
        $config->application->controllersDir,
        $config->application->modelsDir,
        $config->application->libraryDir,

    ]
)->register();

//here you're trying to register Composer AFTER your loader have been registered above ^^
$loader->registerFiles([APP_PATH . '/vendor/autoload.php']);

Instead, your code must look like:

$loader = new \Phalcon\Loader();

/**
 * We're a registering a set of directories taken from the configuration file
 */
$loader->registerDirs(
    [
        $config->application->controllersDir,
        $config->application->modelsDir,
        $config->application->libraryDir,

    ]
); //register() method call removed here

$loader->registerFiles([APP_PATH . '/vendor/autoload.php']);

// Register autoloader at the very end
$loader->register();

Hi Lajos :)

I'm not from HU, but it seems that word shares the same meaning across our languages. :)

I just used example provided by OP.

Cheers

Wait what? Are you from hungary? :D

echo 'proba4';

Also it's better to use wkhtmltopdf anyway.

@dschissler Why would we ever need to do that? Since ages composer recommends to use it that way: https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#autoloading

The Phalcon Loader takes care to autoload both Phalcon, custom classes and files, and last but not least simply composer autoloader. That's KISS to me.

Well, vast majority of teams/projects will include Composer that way, so that's like a de-facto standard AFAIK.

I do appreciate more optimal way you're describing though.

And yes, Phalcon really does not do any black magic when it comes to including files via registerFiles() etc.

But it's just that it's clean that way, KISS and maintainable.

Thank you all for both your time and patience to contribute the answering on the topic. :)

I have made it that code works, however when trying to open the rendered pdf document in either Firefox or Chrome I cant do that because the system says that pdf document is damaged. What could be wrong that rendered pdf is damaged ? Thanks in advance

Hi Lajos,

YI it's Croatian language , and we share the same word with the same meaning :)

Here's working Phalcon Micro example with your code:

<?php
use Phalcon\Mvc\Micro;

$loader = new Phalcon\Loader();

//Include composer autoloader - Phalcon way as of 3.0.x
$loader->registerFiles([realpath('.') . '/vendor/autoload.php']);
// Register autoloader
$loader->register();

$app = new Micro();

$app->get(
   '/',
   function () {
   echo 'aaaaa';
   $pdf = new FPDF();
   $pdf->AddPage();
   $pdf->SetFont('Arial','B',16);
   $pdf->Cell(40,10,' Hello PDF World');
   $pdf->Output();
   echo 'proba4';

return 0xff;
   }
);

$app->handle();

I put echoes just to control execution of php code.

Probably some error messages or echo statements are being included in the output. Why are you echoing aaaaa and proba4? Also I don't like returning 0xff and I think that a decent PDF generation library should be able to terminate the file though a method.

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