Saturday, 13 April 2019

create pdf file from caldera form data

Caldera form pdf file

Install Run Action addon  then add a action on process

as shown in fig:
caldera form pdf  

Install dompdf (open source) which using composer inside you theme folder 
Using this command

Composer require dompdf

Than add the following code to yours functions.php file

require_once '/vendor/autoload.php';
 use Dompdf\Dompdf;
add_action('create_pdf','create_pdf_fun');

function create_pdf_fun($data)
{

$html = 'First Name:'.$data['first_name'].'<br>
        Last Name:'.$data['last_name'].'<br>
        Email:'.$data['email_address'].'<br>
        message:'.$data['message'].'<br>
        Question:'.$data['comments_questions'];
// instantiate and use the dompdf class
$dompdf = new Dompdf();
$dompdf->loadHtml($html);

$dompdf->setPaper('A4', 'landscape');
$dompdf->render();

$output = $dompdf->output();

$subdir = wp_get_upload_dir();
$upload_path = 'wp-content/uploads'.$subdir['subdir'].'/'.rand(1,2000).'test.pdf';
file_put_contents($upload_path, $output);
}

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