TCPDF Tables with Word Wrapping Cells

October 3, 2014

This code is used to create a table using TCPDF the example I got it from used Cell which didn’t word wrap and then when switching to writeCell the borders were messed up so I had to change the code from another example to properly write the cells and their borders.

This is the result:

I’m using CakePHP

/View/Address/pdf/pdf_view:

App::import('Vendor','xtcpdf');
 
$pdf = new XTCPDF(PDF_PAGE_ORIENTATION, PDF_UNIT, PDF_PAGE_FORMAT, true, 'UTF-8', false);
$pdf->AddPage('P', 'A4');
$pdf->ColoredTable(
        array(40,40,40), 
        array('Heading1', 'Heading2', 'Heading3'), 
        array( 
            array('r1col1', 'r1col2', 'r1col3'),
            array('r2col1', 'r2col2 put some data in this cell that is bound to word wrap and see the result for the other cells I hope it works', 'r2col3'),
            array('r3col1', 'r3col2', 'r3col3')
            ) 
        );

The XTCPDF class is in Vendor/xtcpdf.php and TCPDF is in Vendor/tcpdf

App::import('Vendor','tcpdf/tcpdf');
class XTPDF extends TCPDF
{ 

    /* function ColoredTable
     * @param $w array of column widths array(40, 30,70);
     * @param array of header names array("Address", "Comment", "Date")
     * @param array of data array( array( r1col1, r1col2, r1col3), array(r2col1, r2col2, r3col3))
     */


    public function ColoredTable($w, $header,$data) {
     
        // Colors, line width and bold font
        $this->SetFillColor(255, 0, 0);
        $this->SetTextColor(255);
        $this->SetDrawColor(128, 0, 0);
        $this->SetLineWidth(0.3);
        $this->SetFont('', 'B');
        // Header
 
        $num_headers = count($header);
        for($i = 0; $i < $num_headers; ++$i) {
            $this->Cell($w[$i], 7, $header[$i], 1, 0, 'C', 1);
        }
        $this->Ln();
        // Color and font restoration
        $this->SetFillColor(224, 235, 255);
        $this->SetTextColor(0);
        $this->SetFont('');
        // Data
        
        $fill = 0;
        
        foreach($data as $row) {
        	
            $cellcount = array();
            //write text first
            $startX = $this->GetX();
            $startY = $this->GetY();
            //draw cells and record maximum cellcount
            //cell height is 6 and width is 80
	
            foreach ($row as $key => $column):
                 $cellcount[] = $this->MultiCell($w[$key],6,$column,0,'L',$fill,0);
            endforeach;
        
            $this->SetXY($startX,$startY);
 
            //now do borders and fill
            //cell height is 6 times the max number of cells
        
            $maxnocells = max($cellcount);
        
            foreach ($row as $key => $column):
                 $this->MultiCell($w[$key],$maxnocells * 6,'','LR','L',$fill,0);
            endforeach;
	
	    $this->Ln();
            // fill equals not fill (flip/flop)
            $fill=!$fill;
            
        }
        
        // draw bottom row border
        $this->Cell(array_sum($w), 0, '', 'T');
    }

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6 Comments

Felipe on March 28, 2015 at 12:13 AM

Hello James, this help me a lot, thanks. but there’s a issue in the code, if you have some data that occupies more than a single page, the loop writes one single line of the next page, overwriting himself until the end of the loop.
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- Felipe on March 28, 2015 at 1:10 AM
  
  this code can fix this:
  $i += $maxnocells; if ($i > 23) { $this->AddPage('L', 'A4'); $i = 0; }
  edit the condition of the $i in order of your paper type (my example use Landscape A4 )
  Reply
  - Nanda on December 19, 2016 at 10:26 PM
    
    Thank you so much!
    Reply
  - James McDonald on August 1, 2020 at 9:26 PM
    
    Only 5 years after your post. Thanks for this. Didn’t hit this bug because I never made a big table with this code but thanks for posting the fix. Will help me the next time I use it!
    Reply
alex on January 14, 2016 at 4:56 AM

Dear James,

Maybe you can help me out with tcpdf in landscape orientation and a QR code. I am having trouble with the layout when i turn the tcpdf in landscape.

For example:
// add a page
$pdf->AddPage(‘L’, ”, false, false);

$pdf->SetAutoPageBreak(false, 0);

// new style
$style = array(
‘border’ => false,
‘padding’ => ‘auto’,
‘fgcolor’ => array(0,0,0),
‘bgcolor’ => false
);

$pdf->write2DBarcode(‘http://www.google.com/’, ‘QRCODE,H’, 0, 1, 100, 100, $style, ‘N’);

doesn’t work and just
// add a page
$pdf->AddPage(‘P’, ”, false, false);

Will display a bigger QRcode
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- James McDonald on February 9, 2019 at 10:21 PM
  
  Very belated reply
  
  Check out the docs https://tcpdf.org/docs/srcdoc/TCPDF/class-TCPDF/
  
  write2DBarcode( $code, $type, $x = ”, $y = ”, $w = ”, $h = ”, $style = array(), $align = ”, $distort = false )
  
  edit the x and y and the location of the barcode on the page will change and edit w and h and the size of the barcode will change to suit
  
  Also you may need to add module sizing to your style:
  
  $style = [
  ‘border’ => false,
  ‘padding’ => ‘auto’,
  ‘fgcolor’ => [0, 0, 0],
  ‘bgcolor’ => false,
  ‘module_width’ => 1, // width of a single module in points
  ‘module_height’ => 1 // height of a single module in points
  ];
  
  And the examples give you hints on how to make it work
  https://tcpdf.org/examples/example_050/
  Reply