Generate PDF File From MySQL Database Using PHP

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Generate PDF File From MySQL Database Using PHP

Last Updated On: July 31, 2019| By: Parvez

We Will Follow Following Steps To Generate PDF

  • Download the FPDF library from fpdf.org

  • We will fetch data from MySQL database into the page.

  • We will use FPDF libs function to generate pdf file with header and footer.

Step 1: We will create employee table into MySQL database.

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---- Table structure for table `employee`-- CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `employee` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT COMMENT 'primary key', `employee_name` varchar(255) NOT NULL COMMENT 'employee name', `employee_salary` double NOT NULL COMMENT 'employee salary', `employee_age` int(11) NOT NULL COMMENT 'employee age', PRIMARY KEY (`id`)) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 COMMENT='datatable demo table' AUTO_INCREMENT=64 ;

We will generate some sample data and insert into employee table.

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---- Dumping data for table `employee`-- INSERT INTO `employee` (`id`, `employee_name`, `employee_salary`, `employee_age`) VALUES(1, 'Tiger Nixon', 320800, 61),(2, 'Garrett Winters', 170750, 63),(3, 'Ashton Cox', 86000, 66),(4, 'Cedric Kelly', 433060, 22),(5, 'Airi Satou', 162700, 33),(6, 'Brielle Williamson', 372000, 61),(7, 'Herrod Chandler', 137500, 59),(8, 'Rhona Davidson', 327900, 55),(9, 'Colleen Hurst', 205500, 39),(10, 'Sonya Frost', 103600, 23),(11, 'Jena Gaines', 90560, 30),(12, 'Quinn Flynn', 342000, 22),(13, 'Charde Marshall', 470600, 36),(14, 'Haley Kennedy', 313500, 43),(15, 'Tatyana Fitzpatrick', 385750, 19),(16, 'Michael Silva', 198500, 66);

Step 2: Connect MySQL database with PHP. We will create connection.php file and add below code.

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Class dbObj{/* Database connection start */var $dbhost = "localhost";var $username = "root";var $password = "";var $dbname = "test";var $conn;function getConnstring() {$con = mysqli_connect($this->dbhost, $this->username, $this->password, $this->dbname) or die("Connection failed: " . mysqli_connect_error()); /* check connection */if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {printf("Connect failed: %s\n", mysqli_connect_error());exit();} else {$this->conn = $con;}return $this->conn;}}

Above file is used to connect and select database using PHP and MySQL.You need to change $dbhost, $username, $password, and $dbname variable’s value with your database credentials.

Step 3: We will create generate_pdf.php file and add below code.

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<?php//include connection fileinclude_once("connection.php");include_once('libs/fpdf.php'); class PDF extends FPDF{// Page headerfunction Header(){ // Logo $this->Image('logo.png',10,-1,70); $this->SetFont('Arial','B',13); // Move to the right $this->Cell(80); // Title $this->Cell(80,10,'Employee List',1,0,'C'); // Line break $this->Ln(20);} // Page footerfunction Footer(){ // Position at 1.5 cm from bottom $this->SetY(-15); // Arial italic 8 $this->SetFont('Arial','I',8); // Page number $this->Cell(0,10,'Page '.$this->PageNo().'/{nb}',0,0,'C');}} $db = new dbObj();$connString = $db->getConnstring();$display_heading = array('id'=>'ID', 'employee_name'=> 'Name', 'employee_age'=> 'Age','employee_salary'=> 'Salary',); $result = mysqli_query($connString, "SELECT id, employee_name, employee_age, employee_salary FROM employee") or die("database error:". mysqli_error($connString));$header = mysqli_query($connString, "SHOW columns FROM employee"); $pdf = new PDF();//header$pdf->AddPage();//foter page$pdf->AliasNbPages();$pdf->SetFont('Arial','B',12);foreach($header as $heading) {$pdf->Cell(40,12,$display_heading[$heading['Field']],1);}foreach($result as $row) {$pdf->Ln();foreach($row as $column)$pdf->Cell(40,12,$column,1);}$pdf->Output();?>

We will include connection and pdf libs file, for customization of header and footer of pdf files, we will override header and footer methods and define our css design.

Step 4: We will create index.php file and added below code.

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<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head><meta charset="UTF-8"><title>Simple Example of PDF file using PHP and MySQL</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap.min.css"><link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap-theme.min.css"><link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css"/></head><body><div class="container" style="padding-top:50px"><h2>Generate PDF file from MySQL Using PHP</h2><form class="form-inline" method="post" action="generate_pdf.php"><button type="submit" id="pdf" name="generate_pdf" class="btn btn-primary"><i class="fa fa-pdf"" aria-hidden="true"></i>Generate PDF</button></form></fieldset></div></body></html>

We have added HTML form tag and define action value generate_pdf.php file.

Conclusion:

We have generated pdf file using php and MySQL database, You can generate pdf using other database as well.You just need to replace MySQL query string.

You can download source code and see Demo from below link.

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