Gravity PDF API – create_pdf()

Description

When provided the Gravity Form entry ID and PDF ID, this method will correctly generate the PDF, save it to disk, trigger the gpdf_post_save_pdf action and return the absolute path to the PDF.

Version

This method was introduced in Gravity PDF 4.0.

Parameters

$entry_id | integer

• The Gravity PDF Entry ID

$pdf_id | string

• The PDF internal identifier (found in the pid URL parameter when viewing individual PDF settings in the admin area)

Return

string | WP_Error

• The full path to the generated PDF on success, or a WP_Error on failure

Usage

The following snippet shows you how to generate a PDF and test that it was successful:

add_action( 'init', function() {
    if ( class_exists( 'GPDFAPI' ) ) {

        $pdf_path = GPDFAPI::create_pdf( 171, '56d5338fae865');

        if ( ! is_wp_error( $pdf_path ) && is_file( $pdf_path ) ) {
            //Do something with your PDF
        }
    }
} );

Source Code

This method is located in api.php.