How to Convert CSV to PDF in PHP

One easy way to convert CSV to PDF involves calling a free low-code API with complementary PHP examples.

We’ll be able to make quick and highly consistent CSV to PDF conversions without needing to update or maintain any of our own code.

To authorize our API calls, we’ll just need a free Cloudmersive API key. This will allow us to make up to 800 API calls per month with zero commitments (our total will reset each month once we reach our limit).

We can install the PHP client with Composer by executing the following command from the command line:

composer require cloudmersive/cloudmersive_document_convert_api_client

After that, we can call the function to make our CSV to PDF conversion:

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

// Configure API key authorization: Apikey
$config = Swagger\Client\Configuration::getDefaultConfiguration()->setApiKey('Apikey', 'YOUR_API_KEY');



$apiInstance = new Swagger\Client\Api\ConvertDocumentApi(
    
    
    new GuzzleHttp\Client(),
    $config
);
$input_file = "/path/to/inputfile"; // \SplFileObject | Input file to perform the operation on.

try {
    $result = $apiInstance->convertDocumentCsvToPdf($input_file);
    print_r($result);
} catch (Exception $e) {
    echo 'Exception when calling ConvertDocumentApi->convertDocumentCsvToPdf: ', $e->getMessage(), PHP_EOL;
}
?>

Now we can easily store our tabular data sets in PDF format without writing or maintaining a ton of new code.