What are some recommended report designers for generating PDFs from MySQL data in PHP?

When working with MySQL data in PHP, it is common to need to generate PDF reports from the retrieved data. One way to achieve this is by using report designers that can convert the MySQL data into a PDF format. Some recommended report designers for this task include TCPDF, FPDF, and Dompdf. 

// Example using TCPDF to generate a PDF report from MySQL data

require_once('tcpdf/tcpdf.php');

// Create new TCPDF object
$pdf = new TCPDF();

// Set document information
$pdf->SetCreator('Creator');
$pdf->SetAuthor('Author');
$pdf->SetTitle('Title');
$pdf->SetSubject('Subject');

// Add a page
$pdf->AddPage();

// Set font
$pdf->SetFont('helvetica', '', 12);

// Retrieve MySQL data
// $result = mysqli_query($conn, "SELECT * FROM table");

// Loop through data and add to PDF
// while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {
//     $pdf->Cell(0, 10, $row['column_name'], 0, 1);
// }

// Output PDF
$pdf->Output('report.pdf', 'D');

Keywords

report designer PDF generation MySQL data PHP libraries

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