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Asked: 2026-06-15T02:44:25+00:00

How can I make dompdf work with a Symfony 2.1 project? I followed this

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How can I make dompdf work with a Symfony 2.1 project?
I followed this TUTORIAL but I’m still getting this exception:

Notice: Use of undefined constant DOMPDF_LIB_DIR – assumed
‘DOMPDF_LIB_DIR’ in
[blablabla]/vendor/dino/dompdf/lib/DOMPDF/stylesheet.cls.php
line 16

if not this, what is the best and simplest library to create pdf from html with Symfony 2.1 ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Here is what I’ve done to make DOMPDF available to me in a Symfony2 project:

    1. require the DinoPDF composer package:
      php composer.phar require dino/dompdf, version 0.1.1 (or dev-master)

    2. DomPDF init files need to be required() somewhere in the loading process:

      • copy the vendor/dino/dompdf/dompdf_config.inc.php.dist to app/dompdf_config.inc.php
      • copy the vendor/dino/dompdf/dompdf_config.custom.inc.php.dist to app/dompdf_config.custom.inc.php

      • add in your app/autoload.php:

        require_once __DIR__.'/dompdf_config.inc.php';

    dompdf_config.inc.php defines the paths to your DOMpdf installation. DinoPDF distribution changed the paths within the library, so this has to be taken care of:

    DOMPDF_INC_DIR: Main DOMPdf classes. In dinoPDF distribution of DOMPdf this folder is renamed from dompdf/include to dompdf/lib/DOMPDF

    DOMPDF_LIB_DIR: Additional resources – fonts, etc. In dinoPDF distribution of DOMPdf this folder is renamed from dompdf/lib to dompdf/lib/vendor

    Here are the changes I’ve introduced to dompdf_config.inc.php:

    /**
 * The root of your DOMPDF installation
 */
define("DOMPDF_DIR", str_replace(DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, '/',                     realpath(__DIR__.'/../vendor/dino/dompdf/')));
/**
 * The location of the DOMPDF include directory
 * Main DOMPdf classes
 * In dinoPDF distribution of DOMPdf this folder is renamed from dompdf/include to     dompdf/lib/DOMPDF
 */
define("DOMPDF_INC_DIR", DOMPDF_DIR . "/lib/DOMPDF");

/**
 * The location of the DOMPDF lib directory
 * Additional resources - fonts, etc.
 * In dinoPDF distribution of DOMPdf this folder is renamed from dompdf/lib to     dompdf/lib/vendor
 */
define("DOMPDF_LIB_DIR", DOMPDF_DIR . "/lib/vendor");

/** Include the custom config file if it exists */
if ( file_exists(__DIR__ . "/dompdf_config.custom.inc.php") ){
    require_once(__DIR__ . "/dompdf_config.custom.inc.php");
}

def("DOMPDF_FONT_DIR", DOMPDF_LIB_DIR . "/fonts/");

    This should correctly include the library, so that it could be used in controllers, for ex. like this:

    /**
 * @Route("/export_pdf", name="export_pdf")
 */
public function exportPDFAction($id)
{   
    $html =
    '<html><body>'.
    '<p>Put your html here, or generate it with your favourite '.
    'templating system.</p>'.
    '</body></html>';

    $dompdf = new \DOMPDF();
    $dompdf->load_html($html);
    $dompdf->render();

    $response = new Response();

    $response->setContent($dompdf->output());
    $response->setStatusCode(200);
    $response->headers->set('Content-Type', 'application/pdf');

    return $response;
}
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