Installing PDF support in PHP

[Anon]

Hi there, I'm trying to get PDF support in PHP, so I can start writing code that makes PDF files 🙂

The problem is, I haven't found any documentation on this, not on the PHP site or PDFlib site (isn't PDFlib the best to use?)

If someone has done this before, could you please give me some tips on this to get me one step forward?

Regards,

Kristinn

[Anon]

Yes, pdflib seems to be the best (and lest expensive) PDF-library to use, at least on unix.

I would advise you to use the latest pdflib (3.01) and the CVS-version of PHP (or wait for PHP 4.0.2). A lot of pdflib-related work has been made on PHP lately; these changes are already in CVS.

[Anon]

The installation went well for me.

To start, just install pdflib alone according to the instructions that came with it.

Then, ./configure the php source with the following switch:

--with-pdflib

I didn't need to include any path data or anything.

Note that if a shared library is installed to a directory that is new you need to tell your OS about it. On most modern Gnu based Unix alikes, that's done by adding a line to ld.so.conf with the path to the new directory and then running ldconfig (all as root).

[Anon]

Does anyone else get a debug.log file generated when they try to configure PHP with PDF??

/usr/local/lib/libpdf.so: undefined reference to TIFFSetWarningHandler'
/usr/local/lib/libpdf.so: undefined reference toTIFFGetFieldDefaulted'
/usr/local/lib/libpdf.so: undefined reference to TIFFReverseBits'
/usr/local/lib/libpdf.so: undefined reference toTIFFReadRGBAImage'
/usr/local/lib/libpdf.so: undefined reference to TIFFSetErrorHandler'
/usr/local/lib/libpdf.so: undefined reference toTIFFClose'
/usr/local/lib/libpdf.so: undefined reference to TIFFOpen'
/usr/local/lib/libpdf.so: undefined reference toTIFFReadRawStrip'
/usr/local/lib/libpdf.so: undefined reference to TIFFNumberOfStrips'
/usr/local/lib/libpdf.so: undefined reference toTIFFGetField'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

How do you stop this from happening? I've tried every suggestion made so far that I've been able to find - from using a CVS of pdf.c and patching pdflib to checking ld.so.conf. Still with no success... anyone have any idea??

Thanks,

Going Insane

[Anon]

I´ve found no Version of the pdflib 3.01 with
PHP support.

[Anon]

Well, from looking at it, I would guess that the error is in the compilation of pdflib, not php.

Did you install the latest tiff lib from a tar ball, or are you using an older one that came installed with your distro?

I found that I had to download every single tarball in source, then uninstall all the older versions of the libs thru RPM, then build them all by hand again.

[Anon]

I'm using 3.01 on two machines at work with PHP, it works just fine, after you've recompiled everything from scratch (zlib, libpng, libtiff, libjpeg first, then pdflib)
Next compile apache for dso operation and then compile php for apxs apache mode and all those libs listed up there.

Don't forget to edit /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig between compiling all the libs and apache/php