ByteScout Cloud API Server – HTML To PDF API – PHP – Convert Web Page To PDF From Link

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ByteScout Cloud API Server – HTML To PDF API – PHP – Convert Web Page To PDF From Link

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How to convert web page to PDF from link for HTML to PDF API in PHP and ByteScout Cloud API Server

Step By Step Instructions on how to convert web page to PDF from link for HTML to PDF API in PHP

The documentation is written to assist you to apply all the necessary features on your side. ByteScout Cloud API Server was designed to assist HTML to PDF API in PHP. ByteScout Cloud API Server is the ready to deploy Web API Server that can be deployed in less than thirty minutes into your own in-house Windows server (no Internet connnection is required to process data!) or into private cloud server. Can store data on in-house local server based storage or in Amazon AWS S3 bucket. Processing data solely on the server using built-in ByteScout powered engine, no cloud services are used to process your data!.

PHP code snippet like this for ByteScout Cloud API Server works best when you need to quickly implement HTML to PDF API in your PHP application. Open your PHP project and simply copy & paste the code and then run your app! Check PHP sample code examples to see if they respond to your needs and requirements for the project.

ByteScout Cloud API Server – free trial version is available on our website. Also, there are other code samples to help you with your PHP application included into trial version.

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web-page-to-pdf.php

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

<?php 

// Please NOTE: In this sample we're assuming Cloud Api Server is hosted at "https://localhost". 
// If it's not then please replace this with with your hosting url.

// Get submitted form data
$sourceUrl = $_POST["sourceUrl"];

// Prepare URL for `Web Page to PDF` API call
$url = "https://localhost/pdf/convert/from/url" . 
    "?name=result.pdf" .
    "&url=" . $sourceUrl;

// Create request
$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

// 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)
        {
            // Get URL of generated PDF file
            $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>