Installation

This » PECL extension is not bundled with PHP. Information for installing this PECL extension may be found in the manual chapter titled Installation of PECL extensions. Additional information such as new releases, downloads, source files, maintainer information, and a CHANGELOG, can be located here: » http://pecl.php.net/package/pdflib.

To get these functions to work in PHP < 4.3.9, you have to compile PHP with --with-pdflib[=DIR] . DIR is the PDFlib base install directory, defaults to /usr/local.

User Contributed Notes

shozdeh at yahoo dot com

3 years ago


because I confused in step 2 I write this comment:
for installing following this instruction step by step:
download PDFlib-Lite-X.X.XpX form first post...

open terminal and type: 

$ cd download folder...
$ sudo tar -xzvf PDFlib-Lite-X.X.XpX.tar.gz 
# cd PDFlib-Lite-X.X.XpX 
# ./configure
# make
# make install 

next:
# apt-get install php5-dev    : online installation if not installed
# apt-get install php-pear    : online installation if not installed
# pecl install pdflib         : online installation
    The ask be: 'path to pdflib installation? : ' enter '/usr/local'

# gedit /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
    add 'extension=pdf.so in' 1 line

# /etc/init.d/apache2 reload  OR /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Should work! for test you can write "$p = new PDF_new();" in a file.

Jean-Charles Papin

4 years ago


Precisions for step 2:

- aptitude install php-pear
- peardev install pecl/pdflib

p dot martelliere at gmail dot com

1 year ago


the new constructor for getting a new instance of PDF lib is $p = new PDFlib(); and not $p = new PDF_new(); anymore.

Igor Moiseev

6 years ago


Brief installation notes. In the spite of the commercialization of libpdf library this is the way to use it in the lite mode. 

System: Ubuntu 8.04 + php5.2



Step 1: PDFlib http://www.pdflib.com/

   download PDFlib-Lite: http://www.pdflib.com/download/pdflib-family/pdflib-lite-7/

   extract: tar -xzvf PDFlib-Lite-X.X.XpX.tar.gz

   compile: cd PDFlib-Lite-X.X.XpX && ./configure && make && make install



Step 2: Pecl for PDFlib http://pecl.php.net/package/pdflib

   install: 

      install dependences: phpize (php5-dev package)

      pecl install pdflib

         path to pdflib installation? :/usr/local



Step 3: php.ini

   extension=pdf.so



Step 4: 

   /etc/init.d/apache2 reload



That's it.



[Edited by RQuadling 2010/07/13 - Updated PDFlibe-Lite URL]

[Edit by danbrown AT php DOT net: Contains a typofix by "Anonymous" on 11-AUG-2010.]