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We use pdflib to create PDF files from our rails apps. It has bindings for PHP, and a ton of other languages. We use the commmercial version, but they also have a free/open source version which has some limitations. Unfortunately, this only allows creation of PDF's.
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.
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.
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.
PDFlib is a well-established developer component for generating and manipulating PDF documents. PDFlib’s main targets are dynamic PDF creation on a Web server and PDF creation in any kind of server, desktop or mobile application.
Starting with PHP 4.0.5, the PHP extension for PDFlib is officially supported by PDFlib GmbH. This means that all the functions described in the PDFlib Reference Manual are supported by PHP 4 with exactly the same meaning and the same parameters.
The PHP info page. You can test the success of your PDFlib product installation and configuration with the following small PHP script: Check the output created by phpinfo ( ). If it contains the line. PHP extension built by PDFlib GmbH. you are using a PDFlib DSO provided by PDFlib GmbH.
