HTML or PHP?
Most of the functions of mPDF can be achieved two ways:
- using PHP commands,
- or using custom HTML tags.
Use whichever suits your purpose better, and you can always combine a mixture of the two.
If you are new to mPDF, I would recommend using HTML/CSS for everything - you can test most things out in a browser this way as you are writing it.
Examples
Example #1 PHP Command
<?php
$mpdf = new \Mpdf\Mpdf();
$mpdf->Bookmark('Start of the document');
$mpdf->WriteHTML('<div>Section 1 text</div>');
$mpdf->Output();
Example #2 Custom HTML Tag
<?php
$html = '<bookmark content="Start of the Document" /><div>Section 1 text</div>';
$mpdf = new \Mpdf\Mpdf();
$mpdf->WriteHTML($html);
$mpdf->Output();
Invalid HTML?
If you want to hide mPDF custom tags from a browser, enclose any mPDF code within:
<!--mpdf .. anything you want to write ... mpdf-->
<div>Your HTML text</div>
mPDF will strip away the <!--mpdf tag and any following spaces, and the $mpdf--> tag and any preceeding spaces,
and process all enclosed code e.g.
<!--mpdf <htmlheader id="header1"><h2>Section 2</h2></htmlheader> mpdf-->
