I am using CakePHP 2.xx and the following component - https://github.com/segy/Mpdf to render pdf's.
I have 2 Controller methods, the first method *request_pdf* calls a second method *send_pdf* in the same Controller. The second method creates and saves a pdf to file, and will then email the pdf (but for simplicity I have omitted this part of the code). Once the second method *send_pdf* finishes creating the pdf control should be passed back to the first method *request_pdf* where it should then render on screen the view file in *view/Documents/request_pdf*. The pdf correctly saves to the TMP directory, BUT when *request_pdf* renders in the browser, it renders the pdf on screen. The saving of the pdf seems to interfere with the rendering of the view. Here is my Controller code App::uses('AppController', 'Controller'); App::uses('CakeEmail', 'Network/Email'); class DocumentsController extends AppController { public $components = array('Mpdf'); // -------------------------------------------------- // beforeFilter // -------------------------------------------------- public function beforeFilter() { parent::beforeFilter(); } function request_pdf() { $this->send_pdf(); // have also tried this as described by the author of Mpdf component // $result = $this->requestAction(array('action' => 'send_pdf/'), array('return', 'bare' => false)); } function send_pdf() { $this->layout = null; $this->Mpdf->init(); $response = $this->render('send_pdf'); $thebody = $response->body(); $this->Mpdf->WriteHTML($thebody); $this->Mpdf->Output(TMP.'requested_pdf.pdf', 'F'); // have also tried this // $this->Mpdf->setFilename(TMP.'requested_pdf.pdf'); // $this->Mpdf->setOutput('F'); } } I'm sure that it is something simple that I'm over looking here regarding the rendering of the original view, but I can't work it out. I have also tried calling different methods in both the first and second methods without success, $this->layout $this->view $this->viewPath $this->render $This->autoRender If I remove $this->layout = null from send_pdf then I get both the pdf AND view from *request_pdf*rendered on the screen overlaying each other. All help appreciated. -- Like Us on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/CakePHP Find us on Twitter http://twitter.com/CakePHP --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/cake-php. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.