prexview/prexview

A composer library to use PrexView, a fast, scalable and friendly service for programatic HTML, PDF, PNG or JPG generation using JSON or XML data.

v1.1.0 2017-07-28 00:29 UTC

Requires

• rmccue/requests: ^1.7

MIT

README

A composer library to use PrexView, a fast, scalable and friendly service for programatic HTML, PDF, PNG or JPG generation using JSON or XML data.

See PrexView for more information about the service.

Installation

Composer

php composer.phar require prexview/prexview

Manually

git clone https://github.com/prexview/prexview-php.git vendor/prexview

Getting started

Get your API Key

You can get an API Key from PrexView

Set up your API Key

If you can setup enviroment variables

export PXV_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"

If you can't setup environment variables, create the PrexView object with your API Key as argument

$pxv = new PrexView\PrexView('YOUR_API_KEY');

Include the library

Composer installation

require __DIR__  . '/vendor/autoload.php';

Manual installation

require __DIR__  . '/vendor/prexview/src/PrexView.php';

Sending an XML

To send an XML string use $pxv->sendXML($xml, $options) method, this method will return a Response object on success or thrown an error.

Example

$pxv = new Prexview\Prexview();

$options =  new stdClass();

$options->template = 'supported_languages';
$options->output = 'pdf';

$xml = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<languages>
  <lang code="en">English</lang>
  <lang code="es">Español</lang>
  <lang code="fr">Française</lang>
</languages>';

$file = 'test.pdf';

try {
  $res = $pxv->sendXML($xml, $options);

  file_put_contents($file, $res->file);

  echo 'File created: ' . $file;
} catch (Exception $e) {
  die($e->getMessage());
}

Sending a JSON

To send a JSON string or PHP standard object use $pxv->sendJSON($json, $options) method, this method will return a Response object on success or thrown an error.

Example

$pxv = new Prexview\Prexview();

$options =  new stdClass();

$options->template = 'supported_languages';
$options->output = 'pdf';

$json = new StdClass();

$en = new StdClass();
$es = new StdClass();
$fr = new StdClass();

$en->code = 'en';
$en->name = 'English';

$es->code = 'es';
$es->name = 'Español';

$fr->code = 'fr';
$fr->name = 'Française';

$json->languages = [$en, $es, $fr];

$file = 'test.pdf';

try {
  $res = $pxv->sendJSON($json, $options);

  file_put_contents($file, $res->file);

  echo 'File created: ' . $file;
} catch (Exception $e) {
  die($e->getMessage());
}

Response object

Options

Dynamic values

In template or note options you can use JSON sintax to access data and have dynamic values, for instance having the following JSON data:

{
  "Data": {
    "customer": "123"
  }
}

Your template or note can use any data attribute or text node, for instance:

'invoice-customer-{{Data.customer}}'

Then we will translate that to the following:

'invoice-customer-123'

And finally the service will try to find the template or note invoice-customer-123 in order to transform the data and generate the document.

License

MIT © PrexView