dynamic creation of PDF files using PHP

Hello,
i 've writen the follwing code for the dynamic creation of PDF files in php but i'm not getting any output(i mean its just giving a blank page).

can any one check my code and help me ..it's really vvvvvv urgent and i was trying hard for this from 2 days
<?
$pdf = pdf_new();
pdf_open_file($pdf, "test.pdf");
if (!pdf_open_file($pdf, "test.pdf")) {
echo error;
exit;
};

pdf_set_info($pdf, "Author", "Uwe Steinmann");
pdf_set_info($pdf, "Title", "Test for PHP wrapper of PDFlib 2.0");
pdf_set_info($pdf, "Creator", "See Author");
pdf_set_info($pdf, "Subject", "Testing");
pdf_begin_page($pdf, 595, 842);
pdf_add_outline($pdf, "Page 1");
$font = pdf_findfont($pdf, "Times New Roman", "winansi", 1);
pdf_setfont($pdf, $font, 10);
pdf_set_value($pdf, "textrendering", 1);
pdf_show_xy($pdf, "Times Roman outlined", 50, 750);
pdf_moveto($pdf, 50, 740);
pdf_lineto($pdf, 330, 740);
pdf_stroke($pdf);
pdf_end_page($pdf);
$buffer = PDF_get_buffer($pdf);

echo $buffer;
header("Content-Type; Application/pdf");
header("Content-Length;".strlen($buffer));
header("Content-Disposition;inline;filename=test.pdf");
pdf_close($pdf);
pdf_delete($pdf);
echo"<a href=test.pdf>open the file</a>";
?>


thanks in advance!!!!!!!!!!
madhu

When you say you're getting a blank page, do you mean you're getting a blank html page or a blank PDF page? This may be a stupid question, but do you actually have PDFLIB installed?

I can see potential for your getting a blank page in the first block. If you're unable to open the file, you're echoing error (not "error" or $error) and then exiting. Maybe the code's stopping there because of a permissions issue.

Sorry!! for giving the wrong code,the actual code was this

<?
$pdf = pdf_new() ;
pdf_open_file($pdf, "test.pdf");
if (!pdf_open_file($pdf, "test.pdf")) {
echo "error";
exit;
}
else {
echo "successfully opened";
}
pdf_set_info($pdf, "Author", "Uwe Steinmann");
pdf_set_info($pdf, "Title", "Test for PHP wrapper of PDFlib 2.0");
pdf_set_info($pdf, "Creator", "See Author");
pdf_set_info($pdf, "Subject", "Testing");
pdf_begin_page($pdf, 595, 842);
pdf_add_outline($pdf, "Page 1");
$font = pdf_findfont($pdf, "Times New Roman", "winansi", 1);
pdf_setfont($pdf, $font, 10);
pdf_set_value($pdf, "textrendering", 1);

pdf_get_fontname($pdf);
pdf_show_xy($pdf, "Times Roman outlined", 50, 750);
pdf_moveto($pdf, 50, 740);
pdf_lineto($pdf, 330, 740);
pdf_stroke($pdf);
pdf_end_page($pdf);
pdf_save($pdf);
$buffer = PDF_get_buffer($pdf);
echo $buffer;
echo"<a href=test.pdf>open the file</a>";
header("Content-Type; Application/pdf");
header("Content-Length;".strlen($buffer));
header("Content-Disposition;inline;filename=test.pdf");

pdf_close($pdf);
pdf_delete($pdf);
?>

and now i'm getting the error as Fatal error: Call to undefined function: pdf_new()

;extension=php_oracle.dll
extension=php_pdf.dll
;extension=php_pgsql.dll
;extension=php_printer.dll

Is already done in php.ini file

can u please help me
thanks in advance.

madhu

Are you running this under windows or linux? If its under linux I think you will need to recompile it with pdf support. I could be wrong though.

-KM-

i was running under windows platform and i'm using iis as my webserver

thnks!!!!!!!!!!

madhu

Back to my earlier question, did you ever actually download and install PDFlib? The PHP PDF functions are just hooks into that. There are several other PDF libraries in PHP that don't require PDFlib, though PDFlib is generally speaking a little more powerful and faster.

i 've downloaded the PDFlib but how to install it can u help me
b'oz i'm getting error as could not install

thanks
madhu

What's the error? I've never installed it myself, but I suspect it's a matter of installing PDFlib and then if need be recompiling PHP with PDFlib support. The PDFlib documentation should provide all you need to get that installed. I'll be no help on getting this installed on a Windows system -- I just don't know how to admin a Windows box.