function viewAction() {

layout = new Zend_Layout();
$layout->setLayoutPath(APPLICATION_PATH . “/views/scripts/invoice”);
$this->view->foo = “test data”;
$this->render(); /* i can render my view.phtml */

$layout->content = $output;
$layout->setLayout(‘pdf’);
echo “

";
print_r($layout);
$html = $layout->render();

}
When i render the layout it show following error:
Message: Requested HTML document contains no data. 

following is my pdf.phtml code

$dompdf = new DOMPDF();
$dompdf->set_paper("a4","portrait");
$dompdf->load_html($html);
$dompdf->set_base_path($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);
$dompdf->render();
$dompdf->stream("document.pdf");

Works fine.

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Im not sure what that means but is enough to corrupt the file so it wont be rendered by some pdf viewers.

Thanks I appreciate your help.

Could you post what you have, then maybe I can help you with fixing it.

// Assign stuff to your view like this:
$this->view->foo = “bar”;

// Render the current view script:
$this->render();

// capture the response:
$output = $this->getResponse()->getBody();

// set that view script content as content of the layout:
$layout->content = $output;
$layout->setLayout(‘pdf’); // my custom layout is called ‘pdf.phtml’
$html = $layout->render();

That’s it, you can now use $html as input for DomPDF.

As an extra, I’ll also give you the code to just render any view script. You’ll see that it’s much shorter, and maybe you want to use that. It’s something I use in cron scripts to render e-mail templates, but it can be used for DomPDF as well:

// create a new view:
$view = new Zend_View();
$view->setScriptPath(APPLICATION_PATH . “/path/to/view/scripts”);

// assign stuff to the view:
$view->foo = “bar”;

// render the view:
$html = $view->render(‘pdf.phtml’);

I’m wondering if you know how to pass the output of a rendered ZF view script to DOMPDF?

I have an invoice template that renders XHTML output. I can view the output in my application by going here:
/invoices/view/id/234

Is there an easy way to grab that output and pass it to $dompdf->load_html($html) to convert it to a PDF?