Wrap Text in Fpdf in Php

Use MultiCell() instead Cell()

Change this:

$pdf->Cell(20,7,'Hi5(xtra)',1);

To:

$pdf->MultiCell( 20, 7, 'Hi5(xtra)', 1);

The MultiCell() is used for print text with multiple lines.

EDIT:

I can see that MultiCell(), breaks the line so new cell will be placed below current position.

In such case you can calculate x and y co-ordinate and calculate new position and set position after outputting every cell.

<?php
require('fpdf.php');

$pdf = new FPDF();

$pdf->AddPage();

$start_x=$pdf->GetX(); //initial x (start of column position)
$current_y = $pdf->GetY();
$current_x = $pdf->GetX();

$cell_width = 20;  //define cell width
$cell_height=7;    //define cell height

$pdf->SetFont('Arial','',16);

$pdf->MultiCell($cell_width,$cell_height,'Hi1',1); //print one cell value
$current_x+=$cell_width;                           //calculate position for next cell
$pdf->SetXY($current_x, $current_y);               //set position for next cell to print

$pdf->MultiCell($cell_width,$cell_height,'Hi2',1); //printing next cell
$current_x+=$cell_width;                           //re-calculate position for next cell
$pdf->SetXY($current_x, $current_y);               //set position for next cell

$pdf->MultiCell($cell_width,$cell_height,'Hi3',1);
$current_x+=$cell_width;

$pdf->Ln();
$current_x=$start_x;                       //set x to start_x (beginning of line)
$current_y+=$cell_height;                  //increase y by cell_height to print on next line

$pdf->SetXY($current_x, $current_y);

$pdf->MultiCell($cell_width,$cell_height,'Hi4',1);
$current_x+=$cell_width;
$pdf->SetXY($current_x, $current_y);

$pdf->MultiCell($cell_width,$cell_height,'Hi5(xtra)',1);
$current_x+=$cell_width;
$pdf->SetXY($current_x, $current_y);

$pdf->MultiCell($cell_width,$cell_height,'Hi5',1);
$current_x+=$cell_width;
$pdf->SetXY($current_x, $current_y);

$pdf->Output();
?>

I dont think Multicell is the solution for this.Problems in using multicell.

  • line breaks enter image description here

  • overlaps with next row enter image description here

  • More over we cant able predict how much height a cell may goes? eg: if first cell text length is 50 and the second text lenght is 100 then its height differs so we cant able to create as a table row.

    Even the above answer helps to solve only the break of line but not overlap problem.

Here i came with a new solution for this.a new function vcell() uses only cell in it to make the expected output successfully.

<?php
require('fpdf.php');
class ConductPDF extends FPDF {
function vcell($c_width,$c_height,$x_axis,$text){
$w_w=$c_height/3;
$w_w_1=$w_w+2;
$w_w1=$w_w+$w_w+$w_w+3;
$len=strlen($text);// check the length of the cell and splits the text into 7 character each and saves in a array 

$lengthToSplit = 7;
if($len>$lengthToSplit){
$w_text=str_split($text,$lengthToSplit);
$this->SetX($x_axis);
$this->Cell($c_width,$w_w_1,$w_text[0],'','','');
if(isset($w_text[1])) {
    $this->SetX($x_axis);
    $this->Cell($c_width,$w_w1,$w_text[1],'','','');
}
$this->SetX($x_axis);
$this->Cell($c_width,$c_height,'','LTRB',0,'L',0);
}
else{
    $this->SetX($x_axis);
    $this->Cell($c_width,$c_height,$text,'LTRB',0,'L',0);}
    }
 }
$pdf = new ConductPDF();
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->SetFont('Arial','',16);
$pdf->Ln();
$x_axis=$pdf->getx();
$c_width=20;// cell width 
$c_height=6;// cell height
$text="aim success ";// content 
$pdf->vcell($c_width,$c_height,$x_axis,'Hi1');// pass all values inside the cell 
$x_axis=$pdf->getx();// now get current pdf x axis value
$pdf->vcell($c_width,$c_height,$x_axis,'Hi2');
$x_axis=$pdf->getx();
$pdf->vcell($c_width,$c_height,$x_axis,'Hi3');
$pdf->Ln();
$x_axis=$pdf->getx();
$c_width=20;
$c_height=12;
$text="aim success ";
$pdf->vcell($c_width,$c_height,$x_axis,'Hi4');
$x_axis=$pdf->getx();
$pdf->vcell($c_width,$c_height,$x_axis,'Hi5(xtra)');
$x_axis=$pdf->getx();
$pdf->vcell($c_width,$c_height,$x_axis,'Hi5');
$pdf->Ln();
$x_axis=$pdf->getx();
$c_width=20;
$c_height=12;
$text="All the best";
$pdf->vcell($c_width,$c_height,$x_axis,'Hai');
$x_axis=$pdf->getx();
$pdf->vcell($c_width,$c_height,$x_axis,'VICKY');
$x_axis=$pdf->getx();
$pdf->vcell($c_width,$c_height,$x_axis,$text);
$pdf->Ln();
$x_axis=$pdf->getx();
$c_width=20;
$c_height=6;
$text="Good";
$pdf->vcell($c_width,$c_height,$x_axis,'Hai');
$x_axis=$pdf->getx();
$pdf->vcell($c_width,$c_height,$x_axis,'vignesh');
$x_axis=$pdf->getx();
$pdf->vcell($c_width,$c_height,$x_axis,$text);
$pdf->Output();
?>

enter image description here

Function explanation:

function vcell($c_width,$c_height,$x_axis,$text){
$w_w=$c_height/3;
$w_w_1=$w_w+2;
$w_w1=$w_w+$w_w+$w_w+3;
// $w_w2=$w_w+$w_w+$w_w+$w_w+3;// for 3 rows wrap
$len=strlen($text);// check the length of the cell and splits the text into 7 character each and saves in a array 
if($len>7){
$w_text=str_split($text,7);// splits the text into length of 7 and saves in a array since we need wrap cell of two cell we took $w_text[0], $w_text[1] alone.
// if we need wrap cell of 3 row then we can go for    $w_text[0],$w_text[1],$w_text[2]
$this->SetX($x_axis);
$this->Cell($c_width,$w_w_1,$w_text[0],'','','');
$this->SetX($x_axis);
$this->Cell($c_width,$w_w1,$w_text[1],'','','');
//$this->SetX($x_axis);
// $this->Cell($c_width,$w_w2,$w_text[2],'','','');// for 3 rows wrap but increase the $c_height it is very important.
$this->SetX($x_axis);
$this->Cell($c_width,$c_height,'','LTRB',0,'L',0);
}
else{
    $this->SetX($x_axis);
    $this->Cell($c_width,$c_height,$text,'LTRB',0,'L',0);}
    }

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