hey Rob,

may i know what Joomla version you using now?

Perhaps you can provide us with your Joomla backend and FTp access so we can better have a look?

Hi Arlex,

I mentioned the version in my original post:

I installed Phoca PDF on a 3.9 installation

Question is if it works with 5.0 EasyBlog install?

Not sure if I will roll it out if it doesn't work.

Regards,
Rob

Thanks Mark - I will see if I can get it to work and will let you know. So far the only thing I am getting is a white screen and that error message.

I'll let you know if I take it any further and if I can get a fix. Thanks again.

Hi Rob,

You are most welcome. Keep us updated and see how it goes.

Did you have any luck with this? We enabled the PDF integration with Phoca in Easyblog. But it's just outputting a blank PDF.

Hi Stephan,

Unfortunately we are not able to find a proper way to integrate phoca pdf into our easyblog components yet currently due to Phoca PDF architecture that are not allowing it to be integrate with other components other than joomla articles . We might as well remove this feature in the future but we will keep on trying to find a way to integrate it properly.

Thanks for your kind understanding.

Are any news on that issue?
I need to let users to export easy blog posts (at least the one being viewed but a set of them would be much better, if that were possible) by adding a pdf icon. Maybe there are no good news about using PhocaPDF for that purpose, If not, could someone please give me some advice about how to implement myself this functionality?
I don't know how feasible it would be to gather that information from the EasyBlog tables.

Thanks in advance.

Hey Javier,

Currently also not possible to support to show PDF in Easyblog.

Hi Arlex,

Thanks for your quick answer.
Do you know if it might be possible to develop a PHP script that gets that information from the EasyBlog tables in order to generate a html page that can converted into a PDF file?

Best regards
Javier

Hello Javier,

It'll be tricky as you need to use huge libraries like TCPDF to help you with this.

Hi Mark,

thank you! If there is no simpler alternative, I'll try it by using this library. My main concern is about being able to recover this information from the database tables. I don't exactly know how the html content of a user's post is stored in the database.

Kind regards
Javier

Hello Javier,

To get the content of the post, it's actually as simple as this,

[gist]
<?php
$post = EB::post($id);
echo $post->getContent();
?>
[/gist]

Getting the content is really not the difficult part. The hardest part is getting it to be rendered on PDF correctly because PDF is known to be a pain when rendering html codes.

Hi Mark!

thanks again for the information. I've been trying using Phoca PDF and modifying some code. I've got to make it work with Joomla Articles but not with the EasyBlog blog entries. I'll try by getting the content of the posts with the code you wrote and using the TCPDF library to render the HTML code into PDF.

Kind regards

Javier

Keep us update if you need any further assistance on this.