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Lesson 41 - E-shop in PHP - Controller for generating PDF invoices

In the previous lesson, E-shop in PHP - The template and the script for order index, we finished order listing and and order state changes. Today's tutorial is about generating invoices as PDFs. The shop owner (or an employee) prints invoices out and attaches them to goods being sent (as with most other e-shops).

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There are several libraries available for PHP that generate PDF files. The following libraries are the most popular:


 

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In this tutorial, we'll prepare the controller used to generate PDF invoices using a third-party library and output buffering.

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