How to print an invoice?

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karasique2018-10-18 16:49:15

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karasique, 2018-10-18 16:49:15

How to make a printing mechanism in js/php?
So far, I have this idea:
Make an invoice template in html, fill it out via php, and print it via js print(). Or how normal people do it? (making a pdf seemed a little tricky)

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Nikolai Chuprik, 2018-10-18
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Making a pdf is not hard at all. Maybe I'm behind the times, but since I set myself the mpdf PHP library in 2011, I have not been worried since then. The bottom line is that you form normal HTML content as if it were a page, but do not output it with ECHO to the browser, but first turn it into a PDF file that is sent to the client with one function. Business something. It literally looks like this:

require ('mpdf.php');
  
  $pdf = new mPDF('utf-8', 'A4');		
  $pdf->charset_in = 'cp1251';
  $style = file_get_contents('style.css');
  $pdf->WriteHTML($style, 1);
  
  $html = " .... ";   // Сюда пишите ваш <body>...</body>
  
  $pdf->WriteHTML($html, 2);
  $pdf->Output();