Example of an automated sign-in sheet, providing users' information and generating a PDF automatically (when user requests it), using the mpdf PHP library

sign_in_sheet.php

//MySQL queries and other code to generate the $users array ommited 

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$todayDate = date('m.d.y');
$fileName = 'Sign-In Sheet ' .$todayDate . '.pdf';

include("mpdf60/mpdf.php");

$mpdf=new mPDF('c', 'Letter', 0, '', 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0);

$mpdf->SetDisplayMode('fullpage');

$mpdf->AddPage();
$mpdf->WriteHTML($html1);
$mpdf->SetHTMLFooter('<div class="myFooter">Page {PAGENO} of {nb}</div>');

//In order to use php dynamically, we need to capture the html output
ob_start();

echo '<div id="page">';

$i = 1;
	
		foreach ($users as $user){ //
			echo '<div id="innerpage">';
			echo '<div class="altAttendees">' .$users[$i] . '</div>'; //output the users' information from the array
			echo '</div>';

			if ($i % 3 == 0){
				echo '<pagebreak />';
			}

			$i++;
		}
echo '</div>';

$html = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

$stylesheet = file_get_contents('css/styles_pdf.css');
$mpdf->WriteHTML($stylesheet,1);
$mpdf->WriteHTML($html);

$mpdf->AddPage();
$mpdf->WriteHTML('<div id="page"></div>');

$mpdf->AddPage();
$mpdf->WriteHTML('<div id="page"></div>');


$mpdf->Output($fileName, 'I'); //When Save As, a pre-assigned filename will be generated with today's date

exit;

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