How does a web page generate a pdf?

PHP
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Hi

I’ve got a website with a few homemade checkout pages and a link to a payment gateway. At the moment the final confirmation page sends an HTML email with the Order details/Customer details.

Is there a way I can have my final checkout page generate a PDF invoice of the Order details/Customer details and attach it to an email that is sent to the customer and I?

Thanks

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I always use fpdf.org for tasks like this. But I don’t do e-commerce.

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If you can install wkhtmltopdf on your server you can pretty much take the output of any html page and feed it directly in to generate a pdf