TCPDF Integration

Category:Contributions::Applications::TCPDF Category:Contributions::Libraries::PDF

I struggled some some strange nuances on the other TCPDF-CI integration, so I thought that I would just post some notes on how I got it working in a very simple and easy manner.

1. Download TCPDF - http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcpdf/files/

2. Unzip the above download into /application/libraries/tcpdf. Make sure that the main tcpdf.php file is in this directory

3. Create a new file: /application/libraries/Pdf.php:

<?php if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

require_once dirname(__FILE__) . '/tcpdf/tcpdf.php';

class Pdf extends TCPDF
{
    function __construct()
    {
        parent::__construct();
    }
}

/* End of file Pdf.php */
/* Location: ./application/libraries/Pdf.php */

4. To create a new PDF you would do something like this in your controller:

$this->load->library('Pdf');
$this->load->view('view_file');