Simply repeating Footer with wkhtmltopdf

To add a repeating footer to all pages using wkhtmltopdf and Snappy. You first have to create a separate HTML document with just the footer eg:

[bash]<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
</head>
<body>
<div style="overflow: hidden;">
<div style="width: 50%;float: left;min-height: 1px;">
<img width="120" src="/workspace/greatannual/logo.png"
alt="EGN Digital"/>
</div>
<div style="width: 50%;float: right;
min-height: 1px;color: #333333;
font-size: 20px;text-align:right;">
This is a footer</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>[/bash]

Then use the ‘footer-html’ option when building the PDF with Snappy E.g

[bash]// Load Knp
require ‘/vendor/autoload.php’;

$filename = ‘created.pdf’;
$filePath = ‘/storing-path/’ . $filename;

// Match server path for wkhtmltopdf binary
$snappy = new Knp\Snappy\Pdf(‘/usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf’);

// Replace this with your rendered html body
$html = file_get_contents(‘body.html’);

// Replace this with your rendered footer html
$footerHtml = file_get_contents(‘footer’);

try {
$snappy->generateFromHtml(
$html,
$filePath,
[
‘footer-html’ => $footerHtml,
‘page-size’ => ‘A4’
]
);
} catch (\Exception $e) {
// Set error
exit;
}[/bash]

This results in a PDF like this:

Simply repeating Footer with wkhtmltopdf

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