Top 8 PHP pdf-generation Projects

Dompdf

17 10,252 8.4 PHP

HTML to PDF converter for PHP

Project mention: Intro to DOMPDF - lightest and simplest PHP library to generate PDF documents | dev.to | 2024-04-05

Generating PDF documents out of your app's HTML output is a very common requirement and there are several open source libraries to accomplish this. I came across this need for my project recently and I evaluated many popular ones such as TCPDF, mpdf, FPDF, etc. But the one that truly stood up to my evaluation in terms of efficiency (minimal footprint) and ease of implementation was DOMPDF.

Snappy

3 4,333 4.8 PHP

PHP library allowing thumbnail, snapshot or PDF generation from a url or a html page. Wrapper for wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltoimage (by KnpLabs)

Project mention: How to Simply Generate a PDF From HTML in Symfony With WeasyPrint | dev.to | 2023-12-12

When I first looked for solutions to generate a PDF document in a Symfony application, I was amazed to find that a SymfonyCast was made about this. It features the PHP library Snappy, which is essentially a wrapper around wkhtmltopdf.

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KnpSnappyBundle

2 1,215 5.3 PHP

Easily create PDF and images in Symfony by converting html using webkit
PHPJasper

0 446 5.6 PHP

A PHP report generator
laravel-fpdf

1 256 6.3 PHP

Create PDFs with Laravel, provides FPDF version 1.86
docking

4 161 7.9 PHP

DocKing: Your shared-microservice that takes over the document templates management & render/export PDF

Project mention: [PHPxLaravel] DocKing: Your shared-microservice that takes over the document templates management & render/export PDF | /r/opensource | 2023-07-27

WeasyPrintBundle

1 25 5.0 PHP

Easily create PDF in Symfony by converting HTML using WeasyPrint

Project mention: How to Simply Generate a PDF From HTML in Symfony With WeasyPrint | dev.to | 2023-12-12

The advantage of this approach is that it can be used as a command-line tool with other languages, just like the bundle for Symfony that I will present in this article!

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simplestripper

1 1 7.6 PHP

Jukebox title card creator

Project mention: SimpleStripper 3: Online Jukebox Title Strip Creator (Open Source) | /r/jukeboxes | 2023-10-16

GitHub: SimpleStripper 3

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).