SelectPdf HTML To PDF Online REST API is a professional solution that lets you create PDF from web pages and raw HTML code in your applications. The API is easy to use and the integration takes only a few lines of code. The following PHP code samples use v2 of SelectPdf Online HTML to PDF REST API.
It’s very easy to convert any URL or raw HTML string to PDF in PHP using SelectPdf HTML To PDF REST API.
Later Edit: The recommended approach to access SelectPdf Online REST API from PHP is to use the dedicated PHP Client Library for SelectPdf API. Alternatively, you can write your own code to access the API. Below are some examples for this approach.
Example #1 – How to convert a webpage to a PDF and stream it to the client browser as an attachment
This code converts an url to pdf in PHP using SelectPdf REST API through a GET request. The content is sent to the browser.
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<?php $api_endpoint = "https://selectpdf.com/api2/convert/"; $key = 'your license key here'; $test_url = 'https://selectpdf.com'; $parameters = array ('key' => $key, 'url' => $test_url); // Sample GET $result = @file_get_contents("$api_endpoint?" . http_build_query($parameters)); if (!$result) { echo "HTTP Response: " . $http_response_header[0] . "<br/>"; $error = error_get_last(); echo "Error Message: " . $error['message']; } else { // set HTTP response headers header("Content-Type: application/pdf"); header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"test.pdf\""); echo ($result); } ?> |
Example #2 – How to use PHP to convert a webpage to a PDF and save it to the disk
This code converts an url to pdf in PHP using SelectPdf REST API through a GET request. The content is saved into a file on the disk.
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<?php $api_endpoint = "https://selectpdf.com/api2/convert/"; $key = 'your license key here'; $test_url = 'https://selectpdf.com'; $local_file = '/path/to/file/test.pdf'; $parameters = array ('key' => $key, 'url' => $test_url); // Sample GET $result = @file_get_contents("$api_endpoint?" . http_build_query($parameters)); if (!$result) { echo "HTTP Response: " . $http_response_header[0] . "<br/>"; $error = error_get_last(); echo "Error Message: " . $error['message']; } else { // Write on file file_put_contents($local_file, $result); echo "HTTP Response: " . $http_response_header[0] . "<br/>"; } ?> |
Example #3 – How to convert a webpage to a PDF with a POST request and save it to the disk
This code converts an url to pdf in PHP using SelectPdf REST API through a POST request. The parameters are JSON encoded. The content is saved into a file on the disk.
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<?php $api_endpoint = "https://selectpdf.com/api2/convert/"; $key = 'your license key here'; $test_url = 'https://selectpdf.com'; $local_file = '/path/to/file/test.pdf'; $parameters = array ('key' => $key, 'url' => $test_url); // Sample POST // for options use key 'http' even if you send the request to https://... $options = array( 'http' => array( 'header' => "Content-type: application/json\r\n", 'method' => 'POST', 'content' => json_encode($parameters), ), ); $context = stream_context_create($options); $result = @file_get_contents($api_endpoint, false, $context); if (!$result) { echo "HTTP Response: " . $http_response_header[0] . "<br/>"; $error = error_get_last(); echo "Error Message: " . $error['message']; } else { // Write on file file_put_contents($local_file, $result); echo "HTTP Response: " . $http_response_header[0] . "<br/>"; } ?> |
Example #4 – How to convert an HTML string to a PDF with a POST request and stream it to the user in the browser
This code converts a raw html string to pdf in PHP using SelectPdf REST API through a POST request. The parameters are www form encoded (application/x-www-form-urlencoded). The content is sent to the browser.
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<?php $api_endpoint = "https://selectpdf.com/api2/convert/"; $key = 'your license key here'; $raw_html = "Test HTML string"; $parameters = array ('key' => $key, 'html' => $raw_html); // Sample POST // for options use key 'http' even if you send the request to https://... $options = array( 'http' => array( 'header' => "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n", 'method' => 'POST', 'content' => http_build_query($parameters), ), ); $context = stream_context_create($options); $result = @file_get_contents($api_endpoint, false, $context); if (!$result) { echo "HTTP Response: " . $http_response_header[0] . "<br/>"; $error = error_get_last(); echo "Error Message: " . $error['message']; } else { // set HTTP response headers header("Content-Type: application/pdf"); header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"test.pdf\""); echo ($result); } ?> |
The above samples use only the 2 mandatory parameters (key and url or html) for the html to pdf conversion. For the full list of optional parameters, take a look at SelectPdf HTML To PDF REST API page. Using the API optional parameters, you can control the page size, orientation and margins in the pdf document, the document information and security, the headers and footers and a lot more.
The above PHP samples can also be found in the following GitHub repository:
https://github.com/selectpdf/selectpdf-api-php-samples