How to get a page count in an mPDF document?

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Does anybody knows how to get the number of generated pages if a PDF document using mPDF library?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1098156/number-of-pages-in-a-pdf-file - may helps you — Rikesh, Apr 23 '12 at 12:40
add this to a main mPDF class: function getPageCount() { return count($this->pages); } then add a html-parser such string: $html = str_replace('{PAGECNT}', $this->getPageCount(), $html); after these actions you can insert {PAGECNT} directly in your parsed HTML to get the result. This is useful is you need to indicate a page, like: "page 2 of 5". — Nikita Gopkalo, Apr 23 '12 at 13:23

score 32 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 20 '13 at 04:50

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I was looking for the same functionallity while using EYiiPdf (a wrapper for mPDF on Yii) and the following worked like a charm:

$mPDF->setFooter('{PAGENO} / {nb}');

I checked mPDF's source and found this at mpdf.php:1656 (version 5.4):

function AliasNbPages($alias='{nb}') {
    //Define an alias for total number of pages
    $this->aliasNbPg=$alias;
}

Hope it helps!

answered Feb 20 '13 at 04:50

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Actually accepted answer dint work for me!! And your solution worked out :) – sravis Jun 13 '13 at 09:58
i'am creating pdfs using mpdf(inside Yii), pdfs are created from htmls, and i used setfooter to the footer stuff, but its getting displayed in last page only! how to get that in every page? $mPDF1->setFooter('{DATE j-m-Y}|{PAGENO}/{nb}','O|E'); – arun Mar 07 '14 at 06:57

score 19 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 21 '13 at 13:29

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You can use {nbpg}, like

<div align="center"><b>{PAGENO} / {nbpg}</b></div>

answered Oct 21 '13 at 13:29

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This is a very useful answer. If you are using `resetpagenum`, `{nbpg}`shows the current page number counting from your last reset. If you want to show the total page count, you can use `{nb}`. – Mandy Schoep Jun 12 '14 at 15:02

score 10 · Answer 3 · edited Nov 07 '19 at 15:05

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If you are trying to return the number of pages so you can save this to a database or some other operation outside of mpdf it's easy to pull it this way.

After you write your content:

$mpdf->WriteHTML($html);
$page_count = $mpdf -> page;

$mpdf->Output();

edited Nov 07 '19 at 15:05

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answered Feb 28 '14 at 16:01

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I've been looking for this for AGES, looking through the docs for hours and I've finally found the answer. Thank you so much! – Aleksandar Bencun Aug 07 '16 at 19:54
Couldn't find this anywhere else! Thank you! – axelra82 May 28 '18 at 20:54

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 26 '12 at 06:39

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add this to a main mPDF class:

function getPageCount() {
    return count($this->pages);
}

then add a html-parser such string:

$html = str_replace('{PAGECNT}', $this->getPageCount(), $html);

after these actions you can insert {PAGECNT} directly in your parsed HTML to get the result. This is useful is you need to indicate a page:

answered Apr 26 '12 at 06:39

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This works for me but only shows on the last page, is it possible to show in the footer of every page? – Vince P Jul 30 '13 at 14:48
tell pleaze where need insert parse html? in what function? – Igor Kalamurda Mar 31 '16 at 10:45
@VincePettit ..how to create a html based index in mpdf – Madhu Nair May 29 '18 at 05:29

sr9yar · Answer 5 · 2019-11-07T15:09:04.143

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replacement aliases {nb} and {nbpg} for total number
{PAGENO} for current page number

UPDATE

Please note, this answer refers to mdf library v4, which was a current version at the time of writing.

Minimum Working Example by @aiao

<?php 
$pagenumber= '<!--mpdf Page {PAGENO} of {nbpg}mpdf--> $mpdf->WriteHTML($pagenumber); 
$mpdf->Output();
?> 

<?php 
$pagenumber= '<!--mpdf Page {PAGENO} of {nbpg}mpdf--> $mpdf->WriteHTML($pagenumber); 
$mpdf->Output();
?>

edited Nov 07 '19 at 15:09

answered Jun 24 '14 at 08:02

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Please explain how that should be used. How do they return a page count to the application? – Nico Haase Nov 07 '19 at 11:08
Even though I can answer **your question**, the OP's question has nothing to do with returning the number of pages into application. Those are **replacement aliases**, they are put into your html template and parsed by the mdf class instance. This is an answer for library v4, if I remember correctly, please see the year. The documentation for this library was missing (maybe still is), making it difficult to find the right placeholder names right away. – sr9yar Nov 07 '19 at 13:07
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Please include a MWE (Minimum Working Example). You don't have to test it, although it would be nice.... instantiate an object, use the paramter ..etc $mpdf->WriteHTML($pagenumber); $mpdf->Output();?> – aiao Nov 07 '19 at 15:01
@aiao Actually, feel free to edit my answer. I wrote that answer because I had to spend some time myself finding those placeholders (In fact I didn't know they existed from the start ). IMHO, if the OP got to the point of asking this question, he knows pretty well how to init the library and create a basic pdf from html. The last version I worked with was 6, there's probably newer version out there now. I don't think we should spend so much time improving this answer. – sr9yar Nov 07 '19 at 15:13

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Apr 06 '16 at 10:16

Watch for the line:

preg_replace('/\{DATE\s+(.*?)\}/e',"date('\\1')",$hd);

in mpdf.php function Footer() It may cause your "{PAGENO} / {nb}" to not be displayed. Just comment it out or use strpos('{DATE' > -1) to check if it is available. Also you may need to add:

$mpdf->ignore_invalid_utf8 = true;

and also if you don't want footer line:

$mpdf->defaultfooterline = false;

After these changes the pagination worked for me at last.

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