What is ddev-pdfreactor?

This repository allows you to quickly install PDFreactor into a DDEV project using just ddev get blankse/ddev-pdfreactor.

Installation

For DDEV v1.23.5 or above run

ddev add-on get blankse/ddev-pdfreactor

For earlier versions of DDEV run

ddev get blankse/ddev-pdfreactor

Then restart your project

ddev restart

Explanation

This PDFreactor recipe for DDEV installs a .ddev/docker-compose.pdfreactor.yaml using the realobjects/pdfreactor Docker image.

Interacting with PDFreactor

• The PDFreactor instance will listen on TCP port 9423 (the PDFreactor default).
• Configure your application to access PDFreactor on the host:port pdfreactor:9423.

Example to use this PDFreactor service with the official PDFreactor Web Service PHP client

<?php
// Include PDFreactor class
// You can download the PDFreactor Web Service PHP client from:
// http://www.pdfreactor.com/download/get/?product=pdfreactor&type=webservice_clients&jre=false
require_once('PDFreactor.class.php');
use com\realobjects\pdfreactor\webservice\client\PDFreactor;
use com\realobjects\pdfreactor\webservice\client\PDFreactorWebserviceException;
// Create new PDFreactor instance
$pdfReactor = new PDFreactor('http://pdfreactor:9423/service/rest');

$config = [
    // Specify the input document
    'document'=> 'http://www.pdfreactor.com/product/samples/textbook/textbook.html',
];

// Render document and save result to $result
$result = null;
try {
    $result = $pdfReactor->convertAsBinary($config);
    header('Content-Type: application/pdf');
    echo $result;
} catch (PDFreactorWebserviceException $e) {
    echo '<h1>An Error Has Occurred</h1>';
    echo '<h2>' . $e->getMessage() . '</h2>';
}

More info: https://www.pdfreactor.com/php/

Example: Use PDFreactor service with Pimcore

1. Install Pimcore demo

   mkdir -p pimcore-demo
   cd pimcore-demo
   ddev config --project-type=php --docroot=public --webserver-type=apache-fpm --php-version=8.0 --database=mariadb:10.5
   ddev composer create -y -n pimcore/demo
   ddev exec php vendor/pimcore/pimcore/bin/pimcore-install --admin-username admin --admin-password demo --mysql-host-socket db --mysql-username db --mysql-password db --mysql-database db --no-interaction
   

2. Install ddev-pdfreactor Addon

   ddev get blankse/ddev-pdfreactor
   ddev restart
   

3. Config
   1. When you have a PDFreactor license key you can add this to .ddev/pdfreactor/licensekey.txt
   2. Login to the admin interface https://pimcore-demo.ddev.site/admin (Username: admin, Password: demo)
   3. Go to the Web2Print settings

   

   1. Set the config and click the save button

   Setting	Value
   Tool	PDFreactor
   Protocol	http
   Server	pdfreactor
   Port	9423
   BaseURL	http://pimcore-demo.ddev.site

4. Test a Print document

   1. Execute Maintenance Worker:

      ddev php bin/console messenger:consume pimcore_core pimcore_maintenance

   2. Go to the demo Print catalog (/print/Demo-Catalog)
   3. Click to “Generate PDF” button

License

ddev-pdfreactor is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license.

Contributed and maintained by @blankse