Changing or eliminating Header & Footer in TCPDF

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AddPage() in tcpdf automatically calls Header and Footer. How do I eliminate/override this?

score 76 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 24 '16 at 23:49

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Use the SetPrintHeader(false) and SetPrintFooter(false) methods before calling AddPage(). Like this:

$pdf = new TCPDF(PDF_PAGE_ORIENTATION, PDF_UNIT, 'LETTER', true, 'UTF-8', false);
$pdf->SetPrintHeader(false);
$pdf->SetPrintFooter(false);
$pdf->AddPage();

edited Feb 24 '16 at 23:49

Gottlieb Notschnabel

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answered Feb 07 '10 at 15:06

Brian Showalter

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This answer didn't really help me for what I wanted to do. I wanted **only the first page** to have no headers or footers... THIS http://queirozf.com/reminders/tcpdf-how-to-print-a-page-with-no-header-or-footer is what I did in the end. – Felipe Aug 29 '12 at 19:42

Lukey · Answer 2 · 2015-01-12T14:52:25.450

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A nice easy way to have control over when to show the header - or bits of the header - is by extending the TCPDF class and creating your own header function like so:

  class YourPDF extends TCPDF {
        public function Header() {
            if (count($this->pages) === 1) { // Do this only on the first page
                $html .= '<p>Your header here</p>';
            }

            $this->writeHTML($html, true, false, false, false, '');
        }
    }

Naturally you can use this to return no content as well, if you'd prefer to have no header at all.

edited Jan 12 '15 at 14:52

answered Sep 18 '12 at 14:55

Lukey

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I tried this first using `$this->getAliasNumPage()` which didn't work, this did though. Cheers Lukey – Tristanisginger Oct 21 '21 at 16:10

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 19 '12 at 19:58

Here is an alternative way you can remove the Header and Footer:

// Remove the default header and footer
class PDF extends TCPDF { 
    public function Header() { 
    // No Header 
    } 
    public function Footer() { 
    // No Footer 
    } 
} 

$pdf = new PDF();

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 11 '18 at 11:17

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Example:
- First page, no footer
- Second page, has footer, start with page no 1

Structure:

    // First page
    $pdf->startPageGroup();
    $pdf->setPrintFooter(false);

    $pdf->addPage();
    // ... add page content here
    $pdf->endPage();

    // Second page
    $pdf->startPageGroup();
    $pdf->setPrintFooter(true);

    $pdf->addPage();
    // ... add page content here
    $pdf->endPage();

answered Dec 11 '18 at 11:17

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For Header: $pdf->setPrintHeader(false); // hidden $pdf->setPrintHeader(true); // visible – Didier May 12 '22 at 11:35

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered May 05 '11 at 23:48

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How do I eliminate/override this?

Also, Example 3 in the TCPDF docs shows how to override the header and footer with your own class.

answered May 05 '11 at 23:48

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score 0 · Answer 6 · edited Sep 18 '12 at 14:56

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// set default header data
$pdf->SetHeaderData('', PDF_HEADER_LOGO_WIDTH, 'marks', 'header string');

// set header and footer fonts
$pdf->setHeaderFont(Array(PDF_FONT_NAME_MAIN, '', PDF_FONT_SIZE_MAIN));
$pdf->setFooterFont(Array(PDF_FONT_NAME_DATA, '', PDF_FONT_SIZE_DATA));

With the help of above functions you can change header and footer.

edited Sep 18 '12 at 14:56

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answered Oct 15 '10 at 06:38

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Thanks for your belated answer. I had wanted to eliminate the Header/Footer, and Brian's way did it. – ChuckO Oct 15 '10 at 12:30

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