TCPDF use within Cakephp - tcpdf

Question

There are a lot posts about this subjects, but the link to any sloution are not working anymore... I followed this article.
I downloaded TCPDF master.
Upzipped it in the folder Vendor/ tcpdf
Eddited xtcpdf.php
<?php
App::import('Vendor','tcpdf/tcpdf');
class XTCPDF extends TCPDF{
}
Edit config.php (is this the right path?
/**
* Installation path (/var/www/tcpdf/).
* By default it is automatically calculated but you can also set it as a fixed string to improve performances.
*/
define ('K_PATH_MAIN', '/var/www/ppp/app/Vendor/tcpdf');
/**
* URL path to tcpdf installation folder (http://localhost/tcpdf/).
* By default it is automatically set but you can also set it as a fixed string to improve performances.
*/
define ('K_PATH_URL', 'http://localhost/ppp/Vendor/tcpdf');
Create app/View/Layouts/pdf/default.ctp
<?php
header("Content-type: application/pdf");
echo $content_for_layout;
?>
Then in the webpages controller:
public function newpdf(){
$users = $this->User->find('all');
$this->set(compact('users'));
$this->layout = '/pdf/default';
$this->render()->type('application/pdf');
}
and in de view/webcontroller
public function newpdf(){
$users = $this->User->find('all');
$this->set(compact('users'));
$this->layout = '/pdf/default';
$this->render()->type('application/pdf');
}
When i want to test it i get a blank page, without anything...
I made the function in Webpages. Is that all right? Or should I make the function somewhere else?
The path in the configuration file, I work on a localhost on linux. The path: /var/www/ppp/app/Vendor/tcpdf. Is that the right path?
The URL is set is http://localhost/ppp/app/Vendor/tcpdf Is that the right URL?
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

first of all did you checked whether the tcpdf is loaded or not
App::import('Vendor','tcpdf',array('file' => 'tcpdf/tcpdf.php'));
then on path where you want to put the pdf.It must be the real path
$path=realpath('../webroot/pdf/') . '/';
then initialize the tcpdf
$pdf= new tcpdf();
then set desired file options
$pdf->SetCreator(PDF_CREATOR);
$pdf->SetAuthor('Your Name');
$pdf->SetTitle(title);
$pdf->SetSubject('TCPDF');
$pdf->SetKeywords(keywords);
// add a page
$pdf->AddPage();
then get the html which you want to convert to pdf
$html= $this->render('/Elements/Pdf');
write the html to pdf
$pdf->writeHTML($html, true, false, true, false, '');
then output it
$name='pdf.pdf';
$pdf->Output($path.$name, 'F');
Let me know if still have some issues.