Use the flexibility of Smarty with the powerful TCPDF: generate PDF files with PHP from Smarty templates
Copy tplparser folder into your php project, then include tplparser.class.php
/* Create parser object
with 'L' : landscape
'A4': A4 page size
'it': Italian locale
array(2,2,2,2): margins
*/
$parser = new TPLPARSER('L','A4','it',array(2,2,2,2));
/* setting the template name into the object */
$tplpath = 'templates/test.tpl';
$parser->setTplName($tplpath);
/* add constants */
$const['const_1'] = 'this is a test';
$parser->assignConst($const);
/* add data array with recursive elements */
$data = array();
for ($i=0;$i<5;$i++){
$item = array('element'=>'this is a recursive_test: '.$i.' element');
array_push($data, $item);
}
$parser->assignBodyData($data,'bodydataset');
/* render the output */
$parser->output();Make sure to give (if Linux/Debian) write permission to templates folder