Webpage to PDF in PHP using PDF.co Web API

In this tutorial, we will show you how to convert a webpage to PDF in PHP using PDF.co Web API. To demonstrate, we will convert the Wikipedia main page to PDF.

Contents

01
Source Code
    02
    Start Apache
      03
      Run Program
        04
        PDF Output

          Step 1: Source Code

          First, let’s copy the HTML code and the PHP code and save them in a folder inside your /www or /htdocs directory.

          Save sample code files in a folder

          Step 2: Start Apache

          Next, start the Apache server so we can run the files in our localhost.

          Step 3: Run Program

          To run the program, open a browser and type in localhost/folder_name/sample.html. This will open the HTML file where we can enter our PDF.co API Key and the webpage we want to convert to PDF.

          Run the program

          Step 4: PDF Output

          PDF.co will then return a temporary URL that we can use to view and download the PDF output.

          PDF Extractor Results

          In this tutorial, you learned how to convert a webpage to PDF in PHP using PDF.co Web API. You also learned how to set up the environment to run the program in your localhost.

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