Urgent: Dynamic PDF file creation and saving with PHP using pdf-php

Hi liltyga,

Cant you do it like this:

First create the pdf
then put the pdf in a file with a uniqe name with the commands.
$tmpfname = tempnam("/tmp", "PDF");
$handle = fopen($tmpfname, "w");
fwrite($handle, $pdf_code);
fclose($handle);
 Here is the code to output a pdf on the page:
$len = filesize($filename);
header("Content-type: application/pdf");
header("Content-Length: $len");
header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=test.pdf");
readfile($filename);


/Rob

> I have the pdf generating the way I want, but I need to have the file saved as a unique file name upon creation.  Can anyone please help?

Once the $pdf is complete, you can save it to a file like this:
---
  $handle = fopen('c:\\setup\\test2.pdf', 'w+');
  fwrite($handle, $pdf->ezOutput(1));
  fclose($handle);
---

Hi,

Thanks for your help.  I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but I'm still having issues with this.  Here is the code I have so far; maybe that will be helpful - I didn't add the open and close, so that maybe you can show me exactly where to put it.  Sorry for being such a dunce on this!

<?php
//===================================================================================================
// this is the php file which creates the final printing output file
//===================================================================================================


// don't want any warnings turning up in the pdf code if the server is set to 'anal' mode.
//error_reporting(7);
error_reporting(E_ALL);
set_time_limit(1800);

include 'class.ezpdf.php';

// define a clas extension to allow the use of a callback to get the table of contents, and to put the dots in the toc
class Creport extends Cezpdf {

var $reportContents = array();

function Creport($p,$o){
  $this->Cezpdf($p,$o);
}
function rf($info){
  // this callback records all of the table of contents entries, it also places a destination marker there
  // so that it can be linked too
  $tmp = $info['p'];
  $lvl = $tmp[0];
  $lbl = rawurldecode(substr($tmp,1));
  $num=$this->ezWhatPageNumber($this->ezGetCurrentPageNumber());
  $this->reportContents[] = array($lbl,$num,$lvl );
  $this->addDestination('toc'.(count($this->reportContents)-1),'FitH',$info['y']+$info['height']);
}

function dots($info){
  // draw a dotted line over to the right and put on a page number
  $tmp = $info['p'];
  $lvl = $tmp[0];
  $lbl = substr($tmp,1);
  $xpos = 520;

  switch($lvl){
    case '1':
      $size=16;
      $thick=1;
      break;
    case '2':
      $size=12;
      $thick=0.5;
      break;
  }

  $this->saveState();
  $this->setLineStyle($thick,'round','',array(0,10));
  $this->line($xpos,$info['y'],$info['x']+5,$info['y']);
  $this->restoreState();
  $this->addText($xpos+5,$info['y'],$size,$lbl);


}

}

// Make a new pdf:
$pdf = new Cezpdf('a4','landscape');
// Select a font to use:
$pdf->selectFont('./fonts/Helvetica.afm');
// Insert jpeg image in upper left and make it 600 points wide.
//add first row of images
$pdf->addJpegFromFile("$file", 1, 445, 252, 144);
$pdf->addJpegFromFile("$file", 1, 300, 252, 144);
$pdf->addJpegFromFile("$file", 1, 155, 252, 144);
$pdf->addJpegFromFile("$file", 1, 10, 252, 144);

//add second row of images
$pdf->addJpegFromFile("$file", 253, 445, 252, 144);
$pdf->addJpegFromFile("$file", 253, 300, 252, 144);
$pdf->addJpegFromFile("$file", 253, 155, 252, 144);
$pdf->addJpegFromFile("$file", 253, 10, 252, 144);

//add third row of images
$pdf->addJpegFromFile("$file", 506, 445, 252, 144);
$pdf->addJpegFromFile("$file", 506, 300, 252, 144);
$pdf->addJpegFromFile("$file", 506, 155, 252, 144);
$pdf->addJpegFromFile("$file", 506, 10, 252, 144);


// Send to browser
$pdf->ezStream();


?>

Thanks leannonn,

Sorry, I should have made myself more clear.  Ideally, option 2 would be the best.  When I replace
---
  $pdf->ezStream();
---

with:
---
  $my_options = array("Content-Disposition" => "my_file_name.pdf");
  $pdf->ezStream($my_options);
---
the document renders, but I don't see it saved anywhere. I'm not sure what's happening with that.

For option 1, if I can have that working, that would be great, but I need to change the path from fopen('c:\\setup\\test2.pdf', 'w+'); to a relative path structure, like /usr/home/custom/htdocs/pdf-php/ - but I get an error when I try to do that.  Could you let me know how I can reference the web root without getting the error?  thanks again for your help

Sweet!  Thanks so much - I used ./your_file.pdf and it worked!  You're the best :)