Install PDFLib with PHP

July 9th, 2009

Warning: This post is 15 years old. Some of this information may be out of date.

To install the PDFLib functionality you need to do the following (on an Ubuntu box).

cd /tmp
wget http://www.pdflib.com/binaries/PDFlib/704p1/PDFlib-7.0.4p1-Linux.tar.gz.
tar xvfz PDFlib-7.0.4p1-Linux.tar.gz</pre>

Then install PDFLib using pecl:

sudo pecl install pdflib

This will ask for the path to PDFlib headers. Select '1' and enter:

/tmp/PDFlib-7.0.4p1-Linux/bind/c

Then hit enter. It should then finish.

Finally, add the pdf module to the PHP configuration and restart apache:

sudo echo "extension=libpdf_php.so" > /etc/php5/conf.d/libpdf.ini
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

To check that it works, enter:

> php -i | grep "PDFlib GmbH"
PDFlib GmbH Version => 7.0.4p1