Cloud API – HTML To PDF API – PHP – Generate PDF Invoice From HTML Template

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Cloud API – HTML To PDF API – PHP – Generate PDF Invoice From HTML Template

Cloud API – HTML To PDF API – PHP – Generate PDF Invoice From HTML Template

generate-invoice.php

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>PDF Invoice Generation Results</title>
</head>
<body>

<?php 

// Get submitted form data
$apiKey = $_POST&#91;"apiKey"&#93;; // The authentication key (API Key). Get your own by registering at https://app.pdf.co/documentation/api

// HTML template
$template = file_get_contents("./invoice_template.html");
// Data to fill the template
$templateData = file_get_contents("./invoice_data.json");


// Prepare URL for HTML to PDF API call
$url = "https://api.pdf.co/v1/pdf/convert/from/html?name=result.pdf";

// Create HTML to PDF options
$data = json_encode(array(
    "html" => utf8_encode($template),
    "templateData" => utf8_encode($templateData)
    ));

// Create request
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("x-api-key: " . $apiKey, "Content-type: application/json"));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);

// Execute request
$result = curl_exec($curl);

if (curl_errno($curl) == 0)
{
    $status_code = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
    
    if ($status_code == 200)
    {
        $json = json_decode($result, true);
        
        if ($json["error"] == false)
        {
            $resultFileUrl = $json["url"];
            
            // Display link to the file with conversion results
            echo "<div><h2>Conversion Result:</h2><a href='" . $resultFileUrl . "' target='_blank'>" . $resultFileUrl . "</a></div>";
        }
        else
        {
            // Display service reported error
            echo "<p>Error: " . $json["message"] . "</p>"; 
        }
    }
    else
    {
        // Display request error
        echo "<p>Status code: " . $status_code . "</p>"; 
        echo "<p>" . $result . "</p>";
    }
}
else
{
    // Display CURL error
    echo "Error: " . curl_error($curl);
}

// Cleanup
curl_close($curl);


?>

</body>
</html>

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Cloud API – HTML To PDF API – PHP – Generate PDF Invoice From HTML Template

Cloud API – HTML To PDF API – PHP – Generate PDF Invoice From HTML Template

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