PHP to PDF

[Salchester]

Hiya Everyone,

How do I create the following page in a PDF document using PHP, and display the appropriate information in the red boxes?

http://www.freewebs.com/mail2go/PDF/Template.JPG

Many Thanks,

[DJMaze]

Did you read PHP: PDF Functions - Manual

[Salchester]

Yes, But I don't know where to start, how do I create a simple PDF document that display the words "Testing Testing 1,2,3!!!"

Many Thanks,

[redhead]

• Read the link posted by DjM
• Click the link posted by DjM
• read the page that appears
• copy the appropriate example from that page
• alter it to fit your "testing 1.. 2.. 3.." display
• done.

Now wasn't that easy.

[Salchester]

Redhead,

I get the following error, when using the code below, why?

Fatal error: Call to undefined function PDF_begin_document() in C:\Documents and Settings\It's Dale\Desktop\PHP to PDF\xampplite\htdocs\PDF.php on line 5

<?php
$p = PDF_new();

/*  open new PDF file; insert a file name to create the PDF on disk */
if (PDF_begin_document($p, "", "") == 0) {
    die("Error: " . PDF_get_errmsg($p));
}

PDF_set_info($p, "Creator", "hello.php");
PDF_set_info($p, "Author", "Rainer Schaaf");
PDF_set_info($p, "Title", "Hello world (PHP)!");

PDF_begin_page_ext($p, 595, 842, "");

$font = PDF_load_font($p, "Helvetica-Bold", "winansi", "");

PDF_setfont($p, $font, 24.0);
PDF_set_text_pos($p, 50, 700);
PDF_show($p, "Hello world!");
PDF_continue_text($p, "(says PHP)");
PDF_end_page_ext($p, "");

PDF_end_document($p, "");

$buf = PDF_get_buffer($p);
$len = strlen($buf);

header("Content-type: application/pdf");
header("Content-Length: $len");
header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=hello.pdf");
print $buf;

PDF_delete($p);
?>

Many Thanks,

[redhead]

Perhaps you didnt do what I told you to do:

• read the page that appears

To get these functions to work in PHP < 4.3.9, you have to compile PHP with --with-pdflib[=DIR]. DIR is the PDFlib base install directory, defaults to /usr/local.

I recon you havn't got PDFlib installed.

Or perhaps you're running PHP-5 and using the PHP-4 example, once again I must direct you to

• read the page that appears

[Salchester]

Originally Posted by redhead

Perhaps you didnt do what I told you to do:

I recon you havn't got PDFlib installed.

Or perhaps you're running PHP-5 and using the PHP-4 example, once again I must direct you to

Redhead,

How do I know what version i'm running?

Many Thanks,

[DJMaze]

PHP: phpinfo - Manual

[Salchester]

DJMaze,

I have ran the following code, and have found out I'm am running PHP Version 5.2.1!

<?php

// Show all information, defaults to INFO_ALL
phpinfo();

// Show just the module information.
// phpinfo(8) yields identical results.
phpinfo(INFO_MODULES);

?>

Though when I run the PDF code for PHP Version 5, I get "The page can not be displayed" error message. Why is this, is it because I don't have PDFlib installed? Where/How do I install it?

Many Thanks,

[Belisarius]

It sounds like you had a typo in the address of your web browser - if you had a PHP error, you'd see some sort debugging message.

[DJMaze]

Ok now you sounded really dumb-ass Salchester and would be better off with default answers from your ISP call center like:

- is the powerline connected on both ends
- is the modem on
- is the computer on
- you see green lights
- restart windows
- restart windows again
- restart windows another time
- re-install windows

Since most "default" messages from just the plain browser you don't understand either, i will stop putting my effort in you and won't reply any longer.
Just ask the others.

[Salchester]

DJMaze,

Oops, sorry my mistake, I accidentally entered the following as the address:

http://www.localhost.com/info.php/

Instead of:

localhost/info.php

Upon entering the above address, I still get greeted with the following error message:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function PDF_begin_document() in
C:\Documents and Settings\Dale Piper\Desktop\xampplite\htdocs\Info.php on line 5

Is this due to not having PDFlib installed? Where/How do I install it?

Many Thanks,

[sde]

this is why people get fusterated with you salch.. you fire away questions without doing any thinking for yourself.

there's a big installation section on the links you have already been supplied. before you come back and say that you don't understand it, you'll probably have to click through to the pecl stuff and read about it , .. or read about compiling php. (a nightmare on windows btw)

[Belisarius]

Well, by default the Windows install of PHP doesn't install much - all you should have to do is re-run the installer and choose the extensions you want to have available.

[Salchester]

Belisarius,

Where do I obtain the download?

Many Thanks,