PHP for PDF Page 2

Installing PDFLib and PHP with PDF Support

Requirements

1. PHP 4.02+ from http://php.net
2. PDFLib 3.0.1 from http://www.pdflib.com

This is a little recipe to get PDFlib 3.0.1 working with PHP4:

1. download PHP directly from http://php.net
   Uwe Steinman patched ext/pdf/pdf.c to support PDFLib v 3.0.1
2. download PDFLib 3.0.1 from http://www.pdflib.com
   1. apply every patch you find at http://www.pdflib.com/pdflib/patches.html
   2. Configure, Make & install PDFLib
      

      #./configure –enabled-shared-pdflib
      #make
      #make install

   You’ll get PDFLib installed in /usr/local/lib .

3. Configure PHP

          #./configure --with-apxs=/usr/bin/apxs 
             --with-gd  --with-pdflib=/usr/local --with-mysql=/usr/local 
             --with-config-file-path=/etc/httpd  --with-zlib-dir=/usr    
             --with-ttf=/usr/local/include             
             --with-jpeg-dir=/usr --with-tiff-dir=/usr 
             --with-system-regex=yes --enable-debug=no
   
          #make
          #make install
       

4. Update System Library

          Insert  /usr/local/lib in  /etc/ld.so.conf
   
          #/sbin/ldconfig
       

5. Test & Hack
   Now you need to restart Apache

          #apachectl restart
       

   Copy pdfclock.php in your httpd directory… test… and That’s all.

Important Notes

To get working PDFLib with fonts you must pay attention to the UPR section of the PDFLib manual.

A simple way to use fonts with PDFLib is to copy the standard UPR description file included in PDFLib tarball,
(fonts/pdflib.upr) into your working directory.