Multiple line content in cell fpdf

Question

i am creating an invoice application and using fpdf and https://github.com/farjadtahir/pdf-invoicr pdf-invoicr class. Its working fine but now i have multi line content in database like address, when i am saving the textarea content from form it will save with br tag,

nl2br(htmlentities($address, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'));

When it passes to fpdf cell attribute it displaying with br tag, the i use

str_ireplace('<br />', "\r\n", $address);

Even after it not displaying in new line, just replacing br with space. Is there any way to print value in multi line inside cell

foreach($this->items as $item) 
            {

                $cHeight = $cellHeight;
                $this->SetFont($this->font,'b',8);
                $this->SetTextColor(50,50,50);

                $cbgcolor = explode(",",$item['cbgcolor']);

                $this->SetFillColor($cbgcolor[0],$cbgcolor[1],$cbgcolor[2]);
                $this->Cell(1,$cHeight,'',0,0,'L',1);
                $x = $this->GetX();
                $this->Cell($this->firstColumnWidth,$cHeight,iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1",$item['item']),0,0,'L',1);

                $this->SetTextColor(50,50,50);
                $this->SetFont($this->font,'',8);
                $this->Cell($this->columnSpacing,$cHeight,'',0,0,'L',0);
                $this->Cell($this->secondColumnWidth,$cHeight,$item['quantity'],0,0,'L',1);

                $this->Cell($this->columnSpacing,$cHeight,'',0,0,'L',0);
                $this->Cell($this->priceColumnWidth,$cHeight,iconv('UTF-8', 'windows-1252', $this->currency.' '.number_format($item['price'],2,$this->referenceformat[0],$this->referenceformat[1])),0,0,'C',1);

                $this->Cell($this->columnSpacing,$cHeight,'',0,0,'L',0);
                $this->Cell($this->priceColumnWidth,$cHeight,iconv('UTF-8', 'windows-1252', $this->currency.' '.number_format($item['total'],2,$this->referenceformat[0],$this->referenceformat[1])),0,0,'C',1);
                $this->Ln();
                $this->Ln($this->columnSpacing);
            }

This is my body..for $item['quantity'] have multi line content. where i am printing values as a table.so when i use multicell in one column the layout is changing and not look good.

Can you show the code where you add this string to the PDF, so we can see what you mean by "cell"? — IMSoP, Nov 14 '17 at 09:44

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 14 '17 at 09:52

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You can wrap your text in cell by using MultiCell

$pdf->MultiCell( 200, 40, $address, 1);

answered Nov 14 '17 at 09:52

Aiyaz Khorajia

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MultiCell seems to break table cell positioning. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11982375/placing-two-multicells-next-to-each-other-using-fpdf-in-php – Giorgio Barchiesi Nov 13 '22 at 08:14

Multiple line content in cell fpdf

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