Strange DOMPDF issue with Codeigniter

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Strange DOMPDF issue with Codeigniter

Hello,

Just a quickie. I have tested DOMPDF in a Doctrine enabled Codeigniter 1.7.2 installation and everything works fine. However, when the Cart library and URL Helper are autoloaded as well, DOMPDF doesn't work. BUT, if you 'un-autoload' (ie. dont use) any one of Doctrine, the URL Helper or the Cart Library, DOMPDF works.

Is just a bit annoying as I need DOMPDF, Doctrine, the URL helper and the Cart Library all working together.

Could anyone suggest anything please. Any help very gratefully recieved.

Regards,

Matt

mPDF is bloody brilliant and much much better than domPDF, it works in the same way too in that it reads in a html file with your php code placeholders or whatever to add the dynamic content. I have written a small tutorial on how to use it with Codeigniter if you need it.

audiopleb 2010-09-23 11:53:19

Hello Audiopleb,Yes that would be great, just downloading it now. Big, at 17.7mb! Where can I access this tutorial please?

Matt 2010-09-23 12:01:54

http://www.badcaffeine.com/blog/Using-mpdf-with-codeigniter-to-generate-pdfs-from-html-and-css/ - Enjoy!

audiopleb 2010-09-23 12:13:31

Fantastic, thank you! I'll have a read of this now but it looks a great tutorial, and nice website too. Thank you very much.

Matt 2010-09-23 12:20:10

No problem, DOMPDF used to do my bloomin head in!

audiopleb 2010-09-23 12:21:33

Hmmm, just loading the mpdf library is causing a basic installation of CI to break at the moment. I've followed the badcaffine tutorial so the only thing I can assume to be wrong is the path variable in mpdf.php, though I've tried lots of variations...

Matt 2010-09-26 10:18:05

If you're using DOMPDF 0.5.1 you could be running into conflicts between the __autoload() methods used by the various libraries. The 0.6.0 code base (currently in beta) has been updated to use spl_autoload_register() which helps to prevent auto-loading conflicts between different libraries.

BrianS 2010-09-23 16:17:52

Thanks Brian, I'll check what version I am running and get back to you (in the office at the moment).

Matt 2010-09-24 04:30:10

Kind regards,Matt

Matt 2010-09-24 04:34:14

Hello Brian, I just checked and I am using the 0.6.0 beta unfortunately. Do you have any other idea what may be causing this please?

Matt 2010-09-25 06:30:27

Everything works ok until it gets to $dompdf->render(); and then it fails

Matt 2010-09-28 23:10:34

It sounds like it could be an autoload issue. I believe up until that point DOMPDF doesn't load any of its classes. What PHP errors are being thrown (you might have to adjust your error reporting)?

BrianS 2010-10-08 17:55:25

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