Alpha Framework 3.1.0 API Documentation

TCPDFFacade

A facade class for the TCPDF library which is used to convert some HTML content provided by the Markdown library to a PDF file using FPDF.

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1.0

author

John Collins dev@alphaframework.org

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http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php The BSD License

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Table of Contents

$article  : Article

The business object that stores the content will be rendered to Markdown.

$content  : string

The HTML-format content that we will render as a PDF.

$HTMLCacheKey  : string

The auto-generated name of the HTML cache key for the article generated by Markdown.

$logger  : Logger

Trace logger.

$pdf  : TCPDF

The PDF object that will be generated from the Markdown HTML content.

$PDFCacheKey  : string

The auto-generated name of the PDF cache key for the article.

__construct()  : mixed

The constructor.

getContent()  : string

Fetter for the content.

getPDFData()  : string

Returns the raw PDF data stream from the cache (should be warm first before calling this method).

markdown()  : mixed

Facade method which will invoke our custom markdown class rather than the standard one.