PDF_open_file

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.5, PECL pdflib >= 1.0.0)

PDF_open_file — Create PDF file [deprecated]

Description

bool PDF_open_file ( resource $p , string $filename )

Creates a new PDF file using the supplied file name. Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.

This function is deprecated since PDFlib version 6, use PDF_begin_document() instead.

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[edit] Last updated: Fri, 10 Feb 2012

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phpnet021221 A~T netized D~O~T com 23-Apr-2007 10:21


FYI: the reason you had to add the double slashes was due to the fact that your string was contained within double quotes rather than single quotes.



See: http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php

Button dot Man at gmail dot com 10-Aug-2005 09:39


"Fatal error: PDFlib error: [2100] PDF_begin_page: Function must not be called in 'object' scope"



I found a solution for this fault: 

when i got the fault, this was the script -> 



<?php



$pdf = pdf_new();



pdf_open_file($pdf, "C:\web\pdf\test45.pdf");

pdf_begin_page($pdf, 595, 842);

pdf_set_font($pdf, "Times-Roman", 30, "host");

pdf_set_value($pdf, "textrendering", 1);

pdf_show_xy($pdf, "A PDF document is created!", 50, 750);

pdf_end_page($pdf);

pdf_close($pdf);



?> 



but when i added some slashes to the path:



<?php



$pdf = pdf_new();



pdf_open_file($pdf, "C:\\web\\pdf\\test45.pdf");

pdf_begin_page($pdf, 595, 842);

pdf_set_font($pdf, "Times-Roman", 30, "host");

pdf_set_value($pdf, "textrendering", 1);

pdf_show_xy($pdf, "A PDF document is created!", 50, 750);

pdf_end_page($pdf);

pdf_close($pdf);



?> 



there wasn't no fault anymore and the pdf-file was succesfully created



I think you guys get the point ( add 2 slashes )



Glenn

21-Jun-2005 09:13


"Fatal error: PDFlib error: [2100] PDF_begin_page: Function must not be called in 'object' scope.."



If you get this error then you probably forgot to call pdf_open_file() or pdf_open_file() failed.

php at mijav dot dk 11-Apr-2005 05:35


The example uses pdf_set_font, but that function is deprecated. Instead use pdf_setfont (without the underscore).

alfred dot zingg at freesurf dot ch at example dot com 16-Dec-2004 07:33


...

$fd = fopen("download/liste.pdf", "w");

$pdfdoc = pdf_open($fd);

pdf_begin_page($pdfdoc, 595, 842);

pdf_set_font($pdfdoc, "Helvetica", 20, "host", 1);

pdf_set_text_pos($pdfdoc, 50, 795);

pdf_show($pdfdoc, "Liste");

...

does not work under PHP5, use

...

$fd = fopen("download/liste.pdf", "w");

$pdfdoc = pdf_new();

pdf_open_file($pdfdoc, "download/liste.pdf");

pdf_begin_page($pdfdoc, 595.3, 841.8);

$font = pdf_findfont($pdfdoc, "Helvetica", "winansi", 0);

pdf_set_font($pdfdoc, $font, 20);

pdf_set_text_pos($pdfdoc, 50, 795);

pdf_show($pdfdoc, "Liste");

...

18-Oct-2004 05:55


After some troubles I found filename must be absolute path  here in windows; relative path doesn't work in my box.

php 4.3.5-dev

RandyAtHorktDotCom 28-Oct-2002 04:19


It is possible to append pdfs to each other, however it requires the commercial version of PDFlib with PDI support (http://www.pdflib.com) 



I've used it quite a bit and is well worth the price they are asking for.

jon at logicworks dot cc 24-Oct-2002 11:48


When creating a pdf in memory, it appears that the code is executed twice. This does not seem to happen when creating a pdf as file. Not a problem when outputing a pdf, but does cause a problem if doing other writes in the same code:



// the write to the file is executed twice

$fp = fopen("testfile.htm", "a");

fwrite($fp, "testline/") ;

fclose($fp);

//--------------



$pdf = pdf_new();



if (!pdf_open_file($pdf, "")) {

    print error;

    exit;

};



pdf_begin_page($pdf, 8.5*72, 11*72);

pdf_set_font($pdf, "Helvetica-Bold", 24, "host");

pdf_set_text_pos($pdf, 50, 700);

pdf_show($pdf,"Hello,world!");

pdf_end_page($pdf);

pdf_close($pdf);



$buf = pdf_get_buffer($pdf);

$len = strlen($buf);



header("Content-type: application/pdf");

header("Content-Length: $len");

header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=foo.pdf");

print $buf;

gbl at bso2001 dot com 19-Feb-2002 11:30


Appending to PDF files: plainly, you can't. PDF files have an internal structure that would get corrupted by just appending to the file. You'd need to parse the PDF, create a new PDF and mix your additions with the old PDF. Just creating a new one should be *much* easier.



Reading back the results: do a fopen() on the temporary file and use fgets() to read it. In your example where you just want to output the file, passthru should do the trick.

nils at deviant dot no 16-Jan-2002 04:47


If you get "Fatal error: PDFlib error: function 'PDF_set_info' must not be called in 'object' scope in script.php on line xxx" when using pdf_open_file with a filename, make sure your webserver has write permissions to the directory your are trying to save your PDF file to.

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