How to pass variables to mpdf? - variables

Question

I want to pass variables $name and $age from my controller to mpdf view page.
However, it gives me an error: Undefined variable: name.
I tried to pass data in three ways:
1) Created separate methods in Controller getName() and getAge() and call them in a view
2) Send the variables while rendering the page
3) trying to query the age and name from Database directly from view.
All three ways didn't give result. 1 and 3 leads to not loaded page and the second one shows Undefined variable: name error.
View:
<div><?= $name; ?></div>
P.S. I also tried to do like:
<div><?echo $name; ?></div>
<div><?php $name; ?></div>
Controller:
public function actionIndex(){
$this->actionCreateMPDF();
$a = Profile::find('age')->where(['user_id'=>\Yii::$app->user->id])->asArray()->one();
$age = $a['age'];
$n = Profile::find('name')->where(['user_id'=>\Yii::$app->user->id])->asArray()->one();
$name = $n['name'];
return $this->render('index',[
'age' => $age,
'name' => $name,
]);
}
public function actionCreateMPDF(){
$b = true;
$mpdf = new mPDF();
$mpdf->WriteHTML($this->renderPartial('index'));
$mpdf->showImageErrors = true;
$mpdf->Output();
exit;
}
If anyone knows what is my problem please help me :3

Answer 1

Need to pass variables to function actionCreatePdf()
public function actionIndex(){
$profileData = Profile::find()
->select(['age', 'name'])
->where(['user_id'=>\Yii::$app->user->id])
->one();
$age = $profileData->age;
$name = $profileData->name;
$this->actionCreateMPDF($age, $name);
return $this->render('index',[
'age' => $age,
'name' => $name,
]);
}
public function actionCreateMPDF($age, $name){
$b = true;
$content = $this->renderPartial('index',[
'age' => $age,
'name' => $name,
]);
$mpdf = new mPDF();
$mpdf->WriteHTML($content);
$mpdf->showImageErrors = true;
$mpdf->Output();
exit;
}