Laravel-snappy: footer-html with page number

[rafwell]

Hi, the replace of currenty page number [page] and total page [toPage] not working when use footer-html. It's the expected behavior? I really need this.

[rafwell]

This work fine: http://stackoverflow.com/a/37807113/4470071
I'ts the correcty/only way? Maybe add this on documentation is a good idea.

[oscarAG]

Try setting the footer text via the options in config/snappy.php file.

'pdf' => array(
    'enabled' => true,
    'binary'  => base_path('vendor/h4cc/wkhtmltopdf-amd64/bin/wkhtmltopdf-amd64'),
    'timeout' => false,
    'options' => array(
        'page-size' => 'A4',
        'margin-top' => 5,
        'margin-right' => 5,
        'margin-left' => 5,
        'margin-bottom' => 6,
        'orientation' => 'Landscape',
        'footer-center' => 'Page [page] of [toPage]',
        'footer-font-size' => 8,
        'footer-left' => 'Confidential'
    ),
    'env'     => array(),
)

You can see a full list of options in the wkhtmltopdf documentation.

This is how I do it, I haven't tried this, but you should also be able to set options at runtime using chain methods.

PDF::loadHTML($html)->setOption('footer-center', 'Page [page]')->save('myfile.pdf');

[rafwell]

Thanks for reply @oscarAG. With footer-center/footer-right work fine, i've tested. But, the question is over footer-html.

[dct24]

@rafwell
I think I got it working.

as Doc of wkhtmltopdf stand :

As can be seen from the example, the arguments are sent to the header/footer
html documents in get fashion.

1) prepare route, for example:
Route::get('pdf/footer', 'PDFController@getFooter')->name('pdf.footer');

2) construct PDF, with route passed to 'footer-html' for example:

$pdf = PDF::loadView('content.pdf', $data)
->setOption('footer-html', route('pdf.footer'))
->setOption('margin-bottom', 10)
->setPaper('a4'); 

return $pdf->inline();

3) in PDFController - compact "$_GET params" to your footer blade

public function getFooter(Request $request) 
{
$query = $request->all();
return view('pdfFooter',compact('query'));
}

4) now in footer blade you have an array, sth like:

  "page" => "1"
  "section" => ""
  "sitepage" => "1"
  "title" => null
  "subsection" => ""
  "frompage" => "1"
  "subsubsection" => null
  "isodate" => "2017-06-12"
  "topage" => "1"
  "doctitle" => null
  "sitepages" => "1"
  "webpage" => ""
  "time" => "16:02:14"
  "date" => "2017-06-12"
]

5) and can access it like:
Page {{ $query['page'] }} of {{ $query['topage'] }}

Sorry for my english. Any code improvements are welcomed.

[twf-nikhila]

@rafwell: the javascript mentioned on the StackOverflow link works. (y) ,

Passing $_GET param doesn't work for me.

[ahmad-saad]

@twf-nikhila ,

you must be sure that the route you request by footer-html and header-html is public without any Auth middleware.

[enricooliva]

@rafwell
I think I got it working.

as Doc of wkhtmltopdf stand :

As can be seen from the example, the arguments are sent to the header/footer
html documents in get fashion.

1. prepare route, for example:
   Route::get('pdf/footer', 'PDFController@getFooter')->name('pdf.footer');
2. construct PDF, with route passed to 'footer-html' for example:

$pdf = PDF::loadView('content.pdf', $data)
->setOption('footer-html', route('pdf.footer'))
->setOption('margin-bottom', 10)
->setPaper('a4'); 

return $pdf->inline();

1. in PDFController - compact "$_GET params" to your footer blade

public function getFooter(Request $request) 
{
$query = $request->all();
return view('pdfFooter',compact('query'));
}

1. now in footer blade you have an array, sth like:

  "page" => "1"
  "section" => ""
  "sitepage" => "1"
  "title" => null
  "subsection" => ""
  "frompage" => "1"
  "subsubsection" => null
  "isodate" => "2017-06-12"
  "topage" => "1"
  "doctitle" => null
  "sitepages" => "1"
  "webpage" => ""
  "time" => "16:02:14"
  "date" => "2017-06-12"
]

1. and can access it like:
   Page {{ $query['page'] }} of {{ $query['topage'] }}

Sorry for my english. Any code improvements are welcomed.

I like the approach but I'm getting the error:
Failed to load ... with network status code 3 and http status code 0 - Host ... not found.

[hellomohsinhello]

@enricooliva
Did you find the solution?

[enricooliva]

@enricooliva
Did you find the solution?

I used the approach with JavaScript code mentioned in the documentation and StackOverflow in the header-html and also upgrading the wkhtmltopdf package on Ubuntu.

$pdf->setOption('header-html', $header);

JavaScript code:

function subst() {        
        var vars={};        
        var x=window.location.search.substring(1).split('&');
        for (var i in x) {
            var z=x[i].split('=',2);
            vars[z[0]] = unescape(z[1]);
        }
        if(vars.page > 1){ 
...
        }
    }

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