Export Datatable as PDF and have Print Options (Non-Flash solution?)

redwall

Hi,

I took a look at Table Tools http://datatables.net/extras/tabletools/ and it looks exactly like what I am looking for. Only issue it, it is in Flash and that is a bit of a turn off for compatibility reasons for my project. iPad for example.

Does anyone know of any other solutions to implement a save to PDF and print solution without the use of Flash?

Thanks Red

stefankruger

is your datatable server side ?

If so you can use HTML2PDF for PDF.

You will be required to code the PHP outputing the datatable but if it's server side you just have to call the same URL and truncate some arguments if you want to override the pagination.

allan

Yup, server side is your only other option. HTML5 just doesn't provide an API that we could use to create and save the PDF in a cross browser way.

Allan

MikeS

For what it's worth, there's this project http://jspdf.com/

I don't have a clue if dataTables could possibly use what that project has to offer but I figured that I'd throw it out there. Maybe someone can make the magic happen :)

allan

Now that does look interesting. Thank you for the link. I'll investigate this more closely once DataTables 1.0 is out of the door.

Allan