trouble new_pdf() function

[oaskedal]

My webhost tells me everything is Ok, and phpinfo() tells me PDF is 'enabled' ..
It runs with PHP4.4

Still I get an errormessage like this:

Call to undefined function: pdf_new()

Here's my script. Maybe somethings wrong here(??):

   

      function pdfCreator() {

  $pdf = pdf_new();

  $randName = md5(rand() * time());

  $title = $_POST['title'];

  $someText = $_POST['sometext'];

  $pdfName = $randName . ".pdf";



  pdf_open_file($pdf, "../pdf/$pdfName");



  pdf_set_info($pdf, "Author", "Me");

  pdf_set_info($pdf, "Title", "Creating a pdf");

  pdf_set_info($pdf, "Creator", "Me again");

  pdf_set_info($pdf, "Subject", "Creating a pdf");



  pdf_begin_page($pdf, 595, 842);

  $arial = pdf_findfont($pdf, "Arial", "host", 1);

  pdf_setfont($pdf, $arial, 14);







  if(!empty($_POST['image])) {

          if(!empty($_SESSION['image']['Filename'][0])) {

           $imageName = $_SESSION['image']['Filename'][0];

           $ext      = substr(strrchr($imageName, "."), 1);

          }

          switch ($ext) {

           case $ext=='jpg':

            $image = pdf_open_jpeg($pdf, "../images/category/$imageName");

            break;

           case $ext=='jpeg':

            $image = pdf_open_jpeg($pdf, "../images/category/$imageName");

            break;

           case $ext=='pjpg':

            $image = pdf_open_jpeg($pdf, "../images/category/$imageName");

            break;

           case $ext=='pjpeg':

            $image = pdf_open_jpeg($pdf, "../images/category/$imageName");

            break;

           case $ext=='gif':

            $image = pdf_open_gif($pdf, "../images/category/$imageName");

            break;

           case $ext=='x-png':

            $image = pdf_open_png($pdf, "../images/category/$imageName");

            break;

           case $ext=='png':

            $image = pdf_open_png($pdf, "../images/category/$imageName");

            break;



          }



        }



  pdf_place_image($pdf, $image, 200, 300, 1.0);



  pdf_close_image($pdf, $image);



  pdf_show_xy($pdf, "$title<br /><br />$someText",50, 400);


  pdf_end_page($pdf);

  pdf_close($pdf);







  }

[tron00]

I was having the same problem. Even though my php install showed with pdf support. I had to have PDFlib re-installed and php recompiled.

[oaskedal]

tron00 wrote:

I was having the same problem. Even though my php install showed with pdf support. I had to have PDFlib re-installed and php recompiled.

Ok. I just talked to my webhost. They are using this function with many other clients and claim having no problem with it. Anyway, I can choose to run my domain with PHP5 (having the choice between 4 and 5). Maybe I'll try that, and see if there is any differences.

Would there be another approach to create a pdf-file in PHP5 than PHP4, or can I use the same function?

[tron00]

I myself am fairly new with PDFlib, but instead of $pdf=pdf_new() function, we use $pdf=new PDFlib() instead. I'm not sure if that will make a difference but worth a try.

We are using PHP 5.2.5