DefHTMLHeaderByName doesn't seem to work mpdf

Question

I am trying to get a document generated on a php site. It is all working well but the last thing is to add a header to the top of every page after the title page. I have tried so many things and the closest I can get to what I want is the following (stripped down) code.

  ob_start();

  $mpdf = new Mpdf();

  $mpdf->SetDisplayMode('fullpage');
  $mpdf->bleedMargin = 0;
  $mdpf->crossMarkMargin = 0;
  $mpdf->cropMarkMargin = 0;
  $mpdf->nonPrintMargin = 0;
  // Home page and headers...
  $html_header = 'Some Code here';
  $mpdf->DefHTMLHeaderByName('PgHeader', $html_header);

  $mpdf->AddPage();
  $mpdf->Image('cover.jpg', 0, 0, 210, 297, 'jpg', '', true, false);


    // Get the content of any pages we have 
    if($pdf_pages) {
      foreach($pdf_pages as $key=>$pg) {
        $mpdf->AddPageByArray(array(
          'mgt' => '40',
          'odd-header-name' => 'PgHeader'
        ));
        $html .= 'the content from the loop';

          // Write some HTML code:
          $custom_sheet = file_get_contents('/custom.css');

          $mpdf->WriteHTML($custom_sheet, 1);
          $mpdf->WriteHTML($html, 2);
      }
    }

  // Output a PDF file directly to the browser
  $mpdf->Output('Name.pdf', 'I');

  ob_end_flush();

I have tried changing the odd-header-name to html_PgHeader based on the documentation but in either case, I get the margin, all the content but the header never shows up. Why? Why is it not being assigned so I can call it in the AddPageByArray?

Answer 1

To show header, you need to add odd-header-value option to AddPageByArray method with value 1.

  ob_start();

  $mpdf = new Mpdf();

  $mpdf->SetDisplayMode('fullpage');
  $mpdf->bleedMargin = 0;
  $mdpf->crossMarkMargin = 0;
  $mpdf->cropMarkMargin = 0;
  $mpdf->nonPrintMargin = 0;
  // Home page and headers...
  $html_header = 'Some Code here';
  $mpdf->DefHTMLHeaderByName('PgHeader', $html_header);

  $mpdf->AddPage();
  $mpdf->Image('cover.jpg', 0, 0, 210, 297, 'jpg', '', true, false);

  $pdf_pages = array('key' => 'val');

    // Get the content of any pages we have 
    if($pdf_pages) {
      foreach($pdf_pages as $key=>$pg) {
        $mpdf->AddPageByArray(array(
          'mgt' => '40',
          'odd-header-name' => 'PgHeader',
          'odd-header-value' => 1,
        ));
        $html .= 'the content from the loop';

          // Write some HTML code:
          $custom_sheet = file_get_contents('/custom.css');

          $mpdf->WriteHTML($custom_sheet, 1);
          $mpdf->WriteHTML($html, 2);
      }
    }

  // Output a PDF file directly to the browser
  $mpdf->Output('Name.pdf', 'I');

  ob_end_flush();

Pt.II

If this, don't help, then try this scenario:

1. Open console and go to site's root path.
2. Create index.php file
3. Run composer require mpdf/mpdf (install composer, if you don't have it).
4. Paste this code to the index.php

<?php
require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

ob_start();
$mpdf = new \Mpdf\Mpdf();


/** same code from previous example here, except Mpdf init **/