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The PDFlib Cookbook package for PHP contains the PHP scripts and sample input data, as well as an index.html overview page. As a prerequisite for compiling and executing the PDFlib Cookbook topics the PDFlib binary library for PHP (e.g. php_pdflib.so for Linux) must be installed.
Making PDFlib work with PHP requires various skill levels depending on your operating system platform. We will classify tasks according to the following skill sets: A PHP Web programmer knows how to write code for PHP, but doesn’t have experi-ence with other languages or general system administration tasks.
A basic PHP PDF library based on FPDF. The goal of this libary is to add basic typesetting primitives, basic HTML support and additional features to FPDF to simplify the document-specific code required.
Download Java Code Switch to PHP Code Show Output /* * PDF portfolio starter: * Package multiple PDF and other documents into a PDF portfolio. * The documents in the portfolio will be assigned predefined * and custom metadata fields; for the custom fields a schema description * is created.
I personally generate XSL:FO from PHP and use Apache FOP to convert it to PDF. Not a PHP-native solution, not very efficient either, but it works well even if you need to generate PDF with very complex layouts.
For those of us that do not want to pay for a commercial license to use PDFlib I suggest TCPDF: http://tcpdf.sf.net TCPDF is an Open Source PHP class for generating PDF files on-the-fly without requiring external extensions. This class is already adopted by a large number of php projects such as phpMyAdmin, Drupal, Joomla, Xoops, TCExam, etc.
This example creates a new PDF, places a page from an existing PDF, uses PDFlib PPS to fill a text block, and draws a red circle.
