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    Bruno17 Reply #31, 14 years, 8 months ago
    try this and link to your page with and without &contentType=pdf:

    <?php

//collect here your output in $output, use $modx->runsnippet or what else for generating your html-output.

//example:

$output='<p>This is my Test - Output </p>';

$basePath = $modx->config['base_path'];
$pluginpath = $basePath.'assets/classes/tcpdf/';

if ($_GET['contentType']=='pdf'){
include $pluginpath.'examples/myexample.php';
}
else{
	return $output;
}
?>
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    • Last Of The Romans Reply #32, 14 years, 8 months ago
      Quote from: Bruno17 at Sep 01, 2009, 08:41 AM

      try this and link to your page with and without &contentType=pdf:

      <?php

//collect here your output in $output, use $modx->runsnippet or what else for generating your html-output.

//example:

$output='<p>This is my Test - Output </p>';

$basePath = $modx->config['base_path'];
$pluginpath = $basePath.'assets/classes/tcpdf/';

if ($_GET['contentType']=='pdf'){
include $pluginpath.'examples/myexample.php';
}
else{
	return $output;
}
?>


      yep, i have output:
      " This is my Test - Output "
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        emnoiinay9 Reply #33, 14 years, 8 months ago
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        • Last Of The Romans Reply #34, 14 years, 7 months ago
          Hello,


          can someone help me for export PDF (with Cyrillic chars)?
          THANKS!
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            treigh Reply #35, 14 years, 7 months ago
            Quote from: PaulGregory at Nov 06, 2006, 12:10 PM

            I will be releasing a PDF plug-in/hack based on an open-source third-party PHP-based HTML-PDF conversion routine later this month, after 0.9.5 is released.

            Hey guys,

            Any news yet on that snippet?
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              microcipcip Reply #36, 14 years ago
              Hi Bruno,
              I have installed tcpdf but I have a problem. When I click the link 
              <a href="[~34~]&contentType=pdf" target="_blank">DOWN PDF</a>


              I see the PDF but not the content of the page. What I see is a Red Logo and this: TCPDF Example
              by Nicola Asuni - Tecnick.com
              www.tcpdf.org

              Where do you think is the mistake?

              Thanks in advance.
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                Bruno17 Reply #37, 14 years ago
                did you fill $output in your snippet with some html?
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                  microcipcip Reply #38, 14 years ago
                  Tanks for the reply Bruno, I am pretty sure that I’m doing something very stupid. Here’s what I’ve tried so far:

                  1) I have added the $output in the snippet like this 
                  $output = $modx->documentObject['content'];

                  In my template I have this link <a href="[~34~]&contentType=pdf" target="_blank">DOWN PDF</a>. The resource 34 is empty, inside there is only the template set with the snippet call [!tcpdf!].

                  2) If I put some content in resource 34 I see the content inside the PDF so it’s working somehow, but if I change the id, for example <a href="[~1~]&contentType=pdf" target="_blank">DOWN PDF</a> (ID 1 is the home page), it doesn’t work.
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                    Bruno17 Reply #39, 14 years ago
                    pdf is of course only generated on page 34 (where you have your [!tcpdf!] snippet-call).

                    what you can try is create a link:

                    <a href="[~34~]&contentType=pdf&docid=1" target="_blank">DOWN PDF</a>


                    then in your snippet:

                    $doc['content']='<p>no docid was given to generate pdf-content</p>';
if (isset($_GET['docid'])){
$id=$modx->db->escape($_GET['docid']);
$doc = $modx->getPageInfo($id,1,'content'); 
}
$output = $doc['content'];
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                      microcipcip Reply #40, 14 years ago
                      Thanks so much Bruno, now it works!

                      Here is my snippet and the link if somebody needs it

                      The Snippet
                      <?php
//collect here your output in $output, use $modx->runsnippet or what else for generating your html-output.

$doc['content']='<p>no docid was given to generate pdf-content</p>';
if (isset($_GET['docid'])){
$id=$modx->db->escape($_GET['docid']);
$doc = $modx->getPageInfo($id,1,'content'); 
$title = $modx->getPageInfo($id,1,'longtitle'); 

}
$output = "<h1>".$title['longtitle']."</h1><br/>".$doc['content']; 

$basePath = $modx->config['base_path'];
$pluginpath = $basePath.'assets/classes/tcpdf/';

if ($_GET['contentType']=='pdf'){
include $pluginpath.'examples/myexample.php';
}
else{
	return $output;
}
?>


                      The Link:
                      <a href="[~34~]&contentType=pdf&docid=[*id*]" target="_blank">DOWNLOAD PDF</a>

                      (34 is the resource with the [!tcpdf!] call)

                      I have noticed that when I save the PDF in the computer the PDF name is always the URL alias of page ID 34.
                      I think that line 5918 in tcpdf.php is responsible for this. I will post here the solution if I find one.
                      header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.basename($name).'";');


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