Download Thread as PDF

What this hack does:
This hack creates an new thread tool.
Download the complete thread as an PDF.

Credits:

Julien Mourot, Renato A. C. & MaRTy.
Developers of the 'html2fpdf' lib used for this hack.

Jacqieline of e-Dot.nl for creating
icons for this hack.

KirbyDE for his code modification for this hack.
Now it doesn't need code modifications anymore!

Details:

1 plugin
1 new file
1 new phrase
1 template modification
7 new templates

Installation:

See install.txt in the zip package

Notes:

Becarefull with editting the pdf templates!
Due to limitations of the html2fpdf lib, the templates where kept a simple as possible to create a working an nice pdf.

Also this is my first 'big' hack, so if i've made a mistake somewhere, i'm sorry. Please report it so I can fix it.

This hack is currently in beta stage...


Don't forget to hit the 'Install' button!

[dayblue]

Hmm... I'm on vb3.5 RC1 and it's rejecting the xml file. Had to add it in manually. Everythings working fine though now.

if (THIS_SCRIPT=='pdfthread' && !PDFASHTML) {
  $pdf = new html2fpdf();
  $pdf->AddPage();
  $pdf->WriteHTML($output);

  header("Content-type: application/pdf");
  header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=thread-".$threadid.".pdf");

  $pdf->Output();
  exit();
}

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by dayblue

Hmm... I'm on vb3.5 RC1 and it's rejecting the xml file. Had to add it in manually. Everythings working fine though now.

if (THIS_SCRIPT=='pdfthread' && !PDFASHTML) {
$pdf = new html2fpdf();
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->WriteHTML($output);
 
header("Content-type: application/pdf");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=thread-".$threadid.".pdf");
 
$pdf->Output();
exit();
}

What did you change?

[dayblue]

Well, the odd thing is I didn't change anything. Just took the stuff between the CDATA tags and pasted that in manually instead of importing an XML file. The XML import didn't work for some reason.

[Boofo]

It worked fine for me on RC 1. Strange.

Although the file name is always pdfthread with no threadid number after it.

[dbembibre]

Installed on RC2 work fine
Thanks a lot for this great hack

[Boofo]

Has anyone else run into the problem with it not putting the thread id number in the downloadable file name?

[ajpritch]

I have it working fine but when I click the drop down the pdf icon is missing. I coppied it over to the images/buttons folder as pdf.gif. Any Ideas?

[chikkoo]

I installed it but it is not giving the output properly as I am using a Unicode Font.

I went to www.fpdf.org, but I don't understand the procedure to make a font file. Can someone explain me step by step, how to do it?

i've put the title instead of the threadid in the file name:

PHP Code:

    header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=thread-".str_replace(' ', '_', $threadinfo['title']).".pdf"); 


[Princeton]

GREAT extenstion! :up: