How to add Header and Footer in the created PDF file in php

Solution:

90% of the time use BrianS's solution.

Footers can be a good deal more complicated if you don't always know the height of the content.

For a receipt with a tear-off remittance label, for example, something like this works for me:

$ok = 0;
$offset = (0 - $pdf->y);
while (!$ok) {
    $thisPageNum = $pdf->ezPageCount;
    $pdf->transaction('start');

    $offset = $offset + 1;
    $this->ezSetDy($offset);

    // Add your content here

    if ($this->ezPageCount==$thisPageNum) {
        $this->transaction('commit');
        $ok=1;
    } else {
        $this->transaction('rewind');
    }
}
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This will make sure your content appears at the bottom of the last page.

For inserting content, you may want to useopenObject andcloseObject so only the insertion is redone during thewhile loop.

Solution:

Edited after long time:

Finally adding answer about latest version of R&OS PDF with the help of this example.

<?php

include 'path/to/Cezpdf.php';

$pdf = new Cezpdf('a4', 'portrait', 'none', null);

$all = $pdf->openObject();
$pdf->saveState();

// header line and text
$pdf->addText(20, 800, 14, 'This is header text');
$pdf->line(20, 790, 580, 790);

// footer line and text
$pdf->line(20, 40, 578, 40);
$pdf->addText(20, 30, 8, 'Left side header text');
$pdf->addText(580, 30, 8, 'Right side header text', 0, 'right');

$pdf->restoreState();
$pdf->closeObject();

$pdf->addObject($all,'all');

$pdf->ezSetMargins(100, 100, 50, 50);

// content text
$text = str_repeat("This is your content.\n", 100);
$pdf->ezText($text, 0, ['justification' => 'full']);

// output
$pdf->ezStream(['Content-Disposition' => 'mypdf.pdf']);

?>
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What about using dompdf:

Try this for header and footer:

You can add images and shapes (line, rectangles, etc.) to every page using PDF 'objects'. A PDF object captures all rendering commands as a sort of template that can then be added to multiple pages:

<script type="text/php">

if ( isset($pdf) ) {

  // Open the object: all drawing commands will
  // go to the object instead of the current page
  $footer = $pdf->open_object();

  $w = $pdf->get_width();
  $h = $pdf->get_height();

  // Draw a line along the bottom
  $y = $h - 2 * $text_height - 24;
  $pdf->line(16, $y, $w - 16, $y, $color, 1);

  // Add an initals box
  $font = Font_Metrics::get_font("helvetica", "bold");
  $text = "Initials:";
  $width = Font_Metrics::get_text_width($text, $font, $size);
  $pdf->text($w - 16 - $width - 38, $y, $text, $font, $size, $color);
  $pdf->rectangle($w - 16 - 36, $y - 2, 36, $text_height + 4, array(0.5,0.5,0.5), 0.5);

  // Add a logo
  $img_w = 2 * 72; // 2 inches, in points
  $img_h = 1 * 72; // 1 inch, in points -- change these as required
  $pdf->image("print_logo.png", "png", ($w - $img_w) / 2.0, $y - $img_h, $img_w, $img_h);

  // Close the object (stop capture)
  $pdf->close_object();

  // Add the object to every page. You can
  // also specify "odd" or "even"
  $pdf->add_object($footer, "all");
}

</script>
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