/** Function to create a nice vendor-styled PDF for the output of the given view.
The $path and $dest arguments are directly passed on to TCPDF::Output.
To create a PDF directly from a given HTML (i.e. not through a view), one
can directly use the VmVendorPDF class, see VirtueMartControllerInvoice::samplePDF */
static function createVmPdf($view, $path = '', $dest = 'F', $meta = array())
{
if (!$view) {
// TODO: use some default view???
return;
}
if (!class_exists('VmVendorPDF')) {
vmError('vmPdf: For the pdf, you must install the tcpdf library at ' . VMPATH_LIBS . DS . 'tcpdf');
return 0;
}
$pdf = new VmVendorPDF();
if (isset($meta['title'])) {
$pdf->SetTitle($meta['title']);
}
if (isset($meta['subject'])) {
$pdf->SetSubject($meta['subject']);
}
if (isset($meta['keywords'])) {
$pdf->SetKeywords($meta['keywords']);
}
// Make the formatter available, just in case some specialized view wants/needs it
$view->pdf_formatter = $pdf;
$view->isPdf = true;
$view->print = false;
ob_start();
$view->display();
$html = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->PrintContents($html);
// Close and output PDF document
// This method has several options, check the source code documentation for more information.
$pdf->Output($path, $dest);
return $path;
}
public function samplePDF()
{
if (!class_exists('VmVendorPDF')) {
vmError('vmPdf: For the pdf, you must install the tcpdf library at ' . VMPATH_LIBS . DS . 'tcpdf');
return 0;
}
$pdf = new VmVendorPDF();
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->PrintContents(tsmText::_('COM_VIRTUEMART_PDF_SAMPLEPAGE'));
$pdf->Output("vminvoice_sample.pdf", 'I');
JFactory::getApplication()->close();
}
