Converting PDF Files using PHP

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Converting PDF Files using PHP

• By
• Idris Winarno
• idris_at_eepis-its.edu

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Tools

• FPDF
• PDFlib
• HTML_ToPDF

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FPDF

• Install your apache2 and PHP5
• apt-get install apache2 php5
• Install fpdf
• apt-get install fpdf
• Intergrate your fpdf into your php
• ln -s /usr/share/fpdf /var/www/fpdf

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Testing FPDF (1)

• lt?php
• require('fpdf.php')
• pdfnew FPDF('P','mm','A4')
• pdf-gtAddPage()
• pdf-gtSetFont('Arial','B',16)
• pdf-gtCell(40,10,'Hello World!')
• pdf-gtOutput()
• ?gt

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Testing FPDF (2)
//Page footer function Footer() //Position
at 1.5 cm from bottom this-gtSetY(-15)
//Arial italic 8 this-gtSetFont('Arial','I',8)
//Page number this-gtCell(0,10,'Page
'.this-gtPageNo().'/nb',0,0,'C') //Instanc
iation of inherited class pdfnew
PDF() pdf-gtAliasNbPages() pdf-gtAddPage() pdf
-gtSetFont('Times','',12) for(i1ilt40i)
pdf-gtCell(0,10,'Printing line number
'.i,0,1) pdf-gtOutput() ?gt

• lt?php
• require('fpdf.php')
• class PDF extends FPDF
• //Page header
• function Header()
• //Logo
• this-gtImage('logo_pb.png',10,8,33)
• //Arial bold 15
• this-gtSetFont('Arial','B',15)
• //Move to the right
• this-gtCell(80)
• //Title
• this-gtCell(30,10,'Title',1,0,'C')
• //Line break
• this-gtLn(20)

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PDFLib

• Installing PDFLib
• apt-get install libapache2-mod-php4
  libapache2-mod-php4
• apt-get install php4-dev php5-dev php4-pear
  php5-pear
• pear install pdflib --with-pdflib/usr/local
• Adding new extension into php.ini
• echo "extensionpdf.so" gtgt /etc/php4/conf.d/pdf_li
  b.ini
• echo "extensionpdf.so" gtgt /etc/php5/conf.d/pdf_li
  b.ini
• Checking yout config
• apache2ctl configtest
• Syntax OK
• Restart your apache
• /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

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Alternative install of PDFLib

• cd /usr/src/
• wget http//www.pdflib.com/binaries/PDFlib/704/P
  DFlib-Lite-7.0.4p4.tar.gz
• Or
• wget http//lecturer.eepis-its.edu/idris/files/
  aplikasi_web/PDFlib-Lite-7.0.4p4.tar.gz
• tar xvf PDFlib-Lite-7.0.4p4.tar.gz
• cd PDFlib-Lite-7.0.4p4
• ./configure
• make
• make install
• pecl install pdflib
• install dir /usr/local
• Adding pdflib.so into your php.ini
• /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

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PDFLib

• phpinfo()
• PDF Support gt enabled
• PDFlib GmbH Version gt 4.0.1
• Revision gt Revision 1.8 Pdflib 4.0.1 -
  installation ok

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PDFLib Example

• lt?php
• p PDF_new()
• / open new PDF file insert a file name to
  create the PDF on disk /
• if (PDF_begin_document(p, "", "") 0)
• die("Error " . PDF_get_errmsg(p))
• PDF_set_info(p, "Creator", "hello.php")
• PDF_set_info(p, "Author", "Rainer Schaaf")
• PDF_set_info(p, "Title", "Hello world (PHP)!")
• PDF_begin_page_ext(p, 595, 842, "")
• font PDF_load_font(p, "Helvetica-Bold",
  "winansi", "")

• PDF_setfont(p, font, 24.0)
• PDF_set_text_pos(p, 50, 700)
• PDF_show(p, "Hello world!")
• PDF_continue_text(p, "(says PHP)")
• PDF_end_page_ext(p, "")
• PDF_end_document(p, "")
• buf PDF_get_buffer(p)
• len strlen(buf)
• header("Content-type application/pdf")
• header("Content-Length len")
• header("Content-Disposition inline
  filenamehello.pdf")
• print buf
• PDF_delete(p)
• ?gt

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HTML_ToPDF

• Download source
• cd /usr/src
• wget http//www.rustyparts.com/scripts/HTML_ToPDF
  -3.5.tar.gz
• or
• wget http//lecturer.eepis-its.edu/idris/files/ap
  likasi_web/HTML_ToPDF-3.5.tar.gz
• Make symbolic link into /var/www
• ln -s /usr/src/HTML_ToPDF-3.5 /var/www/html2pdf
• Installaing html2ps ps2pdf
• apt-get install html2ps
• apt-get install texlive-latex-recommended

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Creating HTML

• This HTML code will be converted into PDF
• Make your own HTML code

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HTML_ToPDF Test

• lt?php
• / Id example1.php 2426 2006-11-18 195926Z
  jrust /
• /
• The simplest example. We convert an HTML file
  into a PDF file.
• We also add a few custom headers/footers to
  the PDF.
• /
• ?gt
• lthtmlgt
• ltheadgt
• lttitlegtTesting HTML_ToPDFlt/titlegt
• lt/headgt
• ltbodygt
• Creating the PDF from local HTML file.... Note
  that we customize the headers and footers!ltbr /gt
• lt?php
• // Require the class
• require_once dirname(__FILE__) .
  '/../HTML_ToPDF.php'
• // Full path to the file to be converted
• htmlFile dirname(__FILE__) . '/test.html'

• // Full path to the PDF we are creating
• pdfFile dirname(__FILE__) . '/timecard.pdf'
• // Remove old one, just to make sure we are
  making it afresh
• _at_unlink(pdfFile)
• // Instnatiate the class with our variables
• pdf new HTML_ToPDF(htmlFile, defaultDomain,
  pdfFile)
• // Set headers/footers
• pdf-gtsetHeader('color', 'blue')
• pdf-gtsetFooter('left', 'Generated by
  HTML_ToPDF')
• pdf-gtsetFooter('right', 'D')
• result pdf-gtconvert()
• // Check if the result was an error
• if (is_a(result, 'HTML_ToPDFException'))
• die(result-gtgetMessage())
• else
• echo "PDF file created successfully
  result"

• Please note that your folder permission is fully
  open

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Its your turn

• How to make a PDF file converted into database
  and shown by PHP files
• Please adapt into Final Project files (pdf files)
  to capture the abstract page (id and en)

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THANK YOU