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Version: 2023.3

Rendering PDFs

Instead of directly returning the HTML code of your website you could also return a PDF version. You can use the PimcoreWebToPrintBundle functionality to accomplish this.

Please make sure that you have set up and installed the PimcoreWebToPrintBundle correctly ("Settings" -> "Web2Print Settings").

You need to enable and install the PimcoreWebToPrintBundle via the bundles.php, and then you just have to provide the correct settings (Tool -> PDFreactor / Chromium / Gotenberg) and the corresponding settings.

In your controller you just have to return the PDF instead of the HTML.

Simple example

use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;

class BlogController extends FrontendController
{
public function indexAction(Request $request): Response
{
//your custom code....

//return the pdf
$html = $this->renderView(':Blog:index.html.php', [
'document' => $this->document,
'editmode' => $this->editmode,
]);
return new Response(
\Pimcore\Bundle\WebToPrintBundle\Processor::getInstance()->getPdfFromString($html),
200,
array(
'Content-Type' => 'application/pdf',
)
);
}

Advanced example

use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;

class BlogController extends FrontendController
{
public function indexAction(Request $request): Response
{
//your custom code....

//return the pdf
$params = [
'document' => $this->document,
'editmode' => $this->editmode,
];
$params['testPlaceholder'] = ' :-)';
$html = $this->renderView(':Blog:index.html.php', $params);

$adapter = \Pimcore\Bundle\WebToPrintBundle\Processor::getInstance();
//add custom settings if necessary
if ($adapter instanceof \Pimcore\Bundle\WebToPrintBundle\Processor\PdfReactor) {
//Config settings -> http://www.pdfreactor.com/product/doc/webservice/php.html#Configuration
$params['adapterConfig'] = [
'author' => 'Max Mustermann',
'title' => 'Custom Title',
'javaScriptMode' => 0,
'addLinks' => true,
'appendLog' => true,
'enableDebugMode' => true
];
} elseif ($adapter instanceof \Pimcore\Bundle\WebToPrintBundle\Processor\Gotenberg) {
$params = Config::getWeb2PrintConfig();
$params = json_decode($params['gotenbergSettings'], true) ?: [];
} elseif ($adapter instanceof \Pimcore\Bundle\WebToPrintBundle\Processor\Chromium) {
$params = Config::getWeb2PrintConfig();
$params = json_decode($params['chromiumSettings'], true) ?: [];
}

return new Response(
$adapter->getPdfFromString($html, $params),
200,
array(
'Content-Type' => 'application/pdf',
// 'Content-Disposition' => 'attachment; filename="custom-pdf.pdf"' //direct download
)
);
}