Lesson 42 - E-shop in PHP - PDF invoice template
In the previous lesson, E-shop in PHP - Controller for generating PDF invoices, we prepared the logic required to generate an invoice as a PDF and introduced an interesting hack using an output buffer. In today's tutorial, we'll focus on making the PDF template. An invoice generated based on said template will look like this:

Template
Before I show you the template code, I'll have you know that it took me several hours to make. Although it looks trivial,
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