SilverStripe WkHtmlToX

Create pdfs and images out of SilverStripe with WkHtmlToX. Based on WkHtmlToPdf and mikehaertl's php wrapper.

Installation

SilverStripe Module

$ composer require grasenhiller/silverstripe-wkhtmltox

WkHtmlToX Binaries

WKHtmlToPdf must be installed on your server to use this module. If it's not, you can try to use the provided binaries (v. 0.12.5). To do so, at first login via SSH and go into your home directory.

cd ~
mkdir ~/wkhtmltox
tar -xjvf vendor/grasenhiller/silverstripe-wkhtmltox/wkhtmltox_binaries.tar.bz2 -C ~/wkhtmltox
chmod 755 ~/wkhtmltox/wkhtmltopdf
chmod 755 ~/wkhtmltox/wkhtmltoimage

After this, if you're typing ./wkhtmltox/wkhtmltopdf -V you should see the version number. Now it should work ;)

At last you need to provide the correct path to the binaries. Inside your .env file, define these environment variables

SS_WKHTMLTOPDF_BINARY='/absolute/path/to/wkhtmltox/wkhtmltopdf'
SS_WKHTMLTOIMAGE_BINARY='/absolute/path/to/wkhtmltox/wkhtmltoimage'

To get the absolute path, go into our wkhtmltox directory and type pwd;

cd ~/wkhtmltox/
pwd

Behind a proxy?

You could define global proxy settings inside your .env file

SS_PROXY="http://user:password@192.168.1.2:8080"

or without the need for authentication

SS_PROXY="http://192.168.1.2:8080"

Change binary paths

You can define a different binary path for wkhtmltopdf and wkhtmtltoimage inside your .env file

SS_WKHTMLTOPDF_BINARY='/path/to/wkhtmltopdf'
SS_WKHTMLTOIMAGE_BINARY='/path/to/wkhtmltoimage'

BasicAuth protected environment?

If you're working on a protected environment (dev?) and want to create pdfs or images from "locale" content, you need to define your BasicAuth credentials inside your .env file

SS_WKHTMLTOX_USERNAME
SS_WKHTMLTOX_PASSWORD

WkHtmlToX help/docs and examples?

Navigate to http://your-website.tld/gh-wkhtmltox/

Configuration (YML)

TBD

Methods for both, pdf and image creation

These methods work with new WkPdf() and new WkImage()

Set folder where files should be saved

$pdf = new WkPdf();
$pdf->setFolder('folder/beneath/assets/to/save');

Generate html from SilverStripe templates

$obj: The dataobject or page you want to render
$variables: An array with extra data (optional)
$template: The desired template (optional)

$pdf = new WkPdf();
$html = $pdf::get_html($obj, $variables = [], $template = '');

Replace relative image links

HTMLEditorFields normally don't store image links with absolute links. But WkHtmlToX needs absolute links to work. So just replace them with this method.

$pdf = new WkPdf();
$html = $pdf::get_html($obj);
$html = $pdf::replace_img_paths($html);

Get options the pdf or image will be created with

Get all options

$pdf = new WkPdf();
echo '<pre>';
print_r($pdf->getOptions());
echo '</pre>;
die();

Get a specific option

$pdf = new WkPdf();
echo $pdf->getOption('name_of_option');
die();

Set (new) or remove (existing) options

setOptions() setOption() removeOption() removeOptions()

Sry, no time to finish the readme until now ...

Overwrite global options

Simple Example

	private static $allowed_actions = [
		'pdfExport',
	];

	public function pdfExport() {
		$stylesheet = 'resources/vendor/grasenhiller/silverstripe-intranet-wiki/client/css/pdf.css';

		$filter = URLSegmentFilter::create();
		$filename = $filter->filter($this->MenuTitle);
		$filename .= '__' . date('Y-m-d') . '.pdf';

		$baseUrl = Director::absoluteBaseURL();

		$pdf = new WkPdf();
		$pdf->setOption('margin-top', 20);
		$pdf->setOption('margin-bottom', 20);
		$pdf->setOption('margin-left', 15);
		$pdf->setOption('margin-right', 15);
		$pdf->setOption('user-style-sheet', $stylesheet);
		$pdf->setOption('header-html', $baseUrl . 'gh-wkhtmltox/header?template=Grasenhiller\Intranet\Wiki\Pages\Pdf\Header');
		$pdf->setOption('footer-html', $baseUrl . 'gh-wkhtmltox/footer?template=Grasenhiller\Intranet\Wiki\Pages\Pdf\Footer');
		$pdf->setOption('header-spacing', 5);
		$pdf->setOption('footer-spacing', 5);

		$html = $pdf::get_html($this);

		$pdf->add($html);
		$pdf->download($filename);
	}

Header & footer

gh-wkhtmltox/header gh-wkhtmltox/footer $all_variables + variables from docs

Specific basic auth

Helpful

viewport-size zoom 1.045 window-status h1 { page-break-before: always; }

px & dpi

WkImage

add() construct

WkPdf