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This document explains various possibilities for successfully deploying PDFlib products as a PHP extension. The generic term PDFlib is used to designate one of the following distinct products: The PDFlib base product. PDFlib+PDI, a superset of PDFlib which contains the PDF Import Library (PDI)
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.
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.
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.
Example #. This code requires that you use the PDFlib library for it to function properly. pdf_set_info($pdf, "Author", "John Doe"); //Set info about your PDF. pdf_set_info($pdf, "Title", "HelloWorld"); pdf_begin_page($pdf, (72 * 8.5), (72 * 11)); //specify page width and height.
There is a free and easy to use PDF class to create PDF documents. It's called FPDF. In combination with FPDI (http://www.setasign.de/products/pdf-php-solutions/fpdi) it is even possible to edit PDF documents. The following code shows how to use FPDF and FPDI to fill an existing gift coupon with the user data.
Supported platforms. PDFlib GmbH products for use with PHP are as loadable exten- sion modules which are implemented as DSOs (dynamic shared objects, also called dy- namic link library DLL).
