PHP, PDFs, and pdflib

[MZmuda]

Can anyone tell me exactly what the WHM-->Software-->Apache Update / Option: PHP Module (Version 4.3.3) -->PDFlib does?

I thought it installs the PDF functionality into PHP via the PDFlib lite module with

'--with-pdflib'

When I do a phpinfo command, I get the following in the "header":

Configure Command
'./configure' '--with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs' '--prefix=/usr/local' '--with-xml' '--enable-bcmath' '--enable-calendar' '--enable-ftp' '--with-gd' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local' '--with-png-dir=/usr' '--with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6' '--with-gettext' '--with-mcrypt' '--enable-magic-quotes' '--with-mysql=/usr' '--enable-discard-path' '--with-pdflib' '--with-pear' '--enable-sockets' '--enable-track-vars' '--enable-versioning' '--with-zlib'

Registered PHP Streams
php, http, ftp, compress.zlib

I also get the following in the Configuration area:

PDF:
PDF Support enabled
PDFlib GmbH Version 5.0.3
Revision $Revision: 1.112.2.11 $


This suggests to me that pdflib is installed and recognized by php, BUT...

when I do a pdf_begin_document(), (as copied / pasted from the PHP.net PDF example area) I get the following error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: pdf_begin_document() in ...

So, 2 questions:
1) How do I add PDF support into PHP
2) Am I doing something wrong? Is PDF support installed, and something else is going awry?)

Thanks in advance.

- Mike Z

[cdick@ocis.net]

Hi there,
Did you ever find a solution for this? I found the exact same thing, I was able to select PDFLib from the easyapache build in the PHP section. My phpinfo output now shows that PHP (4.4.2) is built "--with-pdflib" but I get the same Call to undefined function: pdf_begin_document() when I try to run the hello world example. Before recompiling Apache (with PHP having --with-pdflib), I was getting a different error:
Call to undefined function: pdf_new()

Thanks in advance for any advice or solutions.

[webignition]

Originally Posted by cdick@ocis.net

Hi there,
Did you ever find a solution for this? I found the exact same thing, I was able to select PDFLib from the easyapache build in the PHP section. My phpinfo output now shows that PHP (4.4.2) is built "--with-pdflib" but I get the same Call to undefined function: pdf_begin_document() when I try to run the hello world example. Before recompiling Apache (with PHP having --with-pdflib), I was getting a different error:
Call to undefined function: pdf_new()

Thanks in advance for any advice or solutions.

Take a peek at my previous reply.

[edit]A timewarp played havoc there. The reply to which I refer is below not above this one.[/edit]

[webignition]

Originally Posted by MZmuda

This suggests to me that pdflib is installed and recognized by php, BUT...

when I do a pdf_begin_document(), (as copied / pasted from the PHP.net PDF example area) I get the following error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: pdf_begin_document() in ...

Looks like you're using the PHP4 style function-oriented method (as opposed to the PHP5 object-oriented method).

Have you followed the method on php.net precisely?

 In PHP 4, first a PDF resource has to be retrieved with a function call like

$p = PDF_new().

If you're just using pdf_begin_document() without preparing things first, it's probably not going to work.

Take a glance through the manual again. Copy and paste the entire example and run it to first get a feel for how it works.