adding js script to wkhtmltopdf in exec()

Question

How to use wkhtmltopdf page option: --run-script inside of exec()

exec(path/to/wkhtmltopdf --run-script(???)  path/to/pdf-ed/doc  path-to-output-pdf))

I wrote this in a recent post here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25780131/executing-wkhtmltopdf-via-php-throws-error — Guppy, Sep 14 '14 at 15:13
wkhtmltopdf works ok - no problem here, just that particular option: --run-script eludes me — Jeffz, Sep 14 '14 at 15:51
Is this PHP? That does not look like a valid exec command, how does yours actually look like? — Joel Peltonen, Sep 15 '14 at 05:25

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 18 '15 at 15:23

The --run-script argument takes JavaScript passed at the command line. NOT a script file, but actual script content.

$jsCode  = '/* JavaScript code that manipulates the DOM... */';
$webURL  = 'http://example.com';
$pdfFile = '/tmp/output.pdf';
exec('wkhtmltopdf '.
     '--run-script '.escapeshellarg($jsCode).' '.
     escapeshellarg($webURL).' '.
     escapeshellarg($pdfFile));

adding js script to wkhtmltopdf in exec()

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