Using Symfony2 and PdfBundle to generate dynamically PDF files, I don't get to generate the files indeed.
Following documentation instructions, I have set up all the bundle thing:
autoload.php:
'Ps' => __DIR__.'/../vendor/bundles',
'PHPPdf' => __DIR__.'/../vendor/PHPPdf/lib',
'Imagine' => array(__DIR__.'/../vendor/PHPPdf/lib', __DIR__.'/../vendor/PHPPdf/lib/vendor/Imagine/lib'),
'Zend' => __DIR__.'/../vendor/PHPPdf/lib/vendor/Zend/library',
'ZendPdf' => __DIR__.'/../vendor/PHPPdf/lib/vendor/ZendPdf/library',
AppKernel.php:
...
new Ps\PdfBundle\PsPdfBundle(),
...
I guess all the setting up is correctly configured, as I am not getting any "library not found" nor anything on that way...
So, after all that, I am doing this in the controller:
...
use Ps\PdfBundle\Annotation\Pdf;
...
/**
* @Pdf()
* @Route ("/pdf", name="_pdf")
* @Template()
*/
public function generateInvoicePDFAction($name = 'Pedro')
{
return $this->render('AcmeStoreBundle:Shop:generateInvoice.pdf.twig', array(
'name' => $name,
));
}
And having this twig file:
<pdf>
<dynamic-page>
Hello {{ name }}!
</dynamic-page>
</pdf>
Well. Somehow, what I just get in my page is just the normal html generated as if it was a normal Response rendering.
The Pdf() annotation is supposed to give the "special" behavior of creating the PDF file instead of rendering normal HTML.
So, having the above code, when I request the route http://www.mysite.com/*...*/pdf, all what I get is the following HTML rendered:
<pdf>
<dynamic-page>
Hello Pedro!
</dynamic-page>
</pdf>
(so a blank HTML page with just the words Hello Pedro! on it.
Any clue? Am I doing anything wrong? Is it mandatory to have the alternative *.html.twig apart from the *.pdf.twig version? I don't think so... :(
