Using PDFNet SDK for PHP on Windows

[Support]

Q: I'm evaluating PDFTron for use with an application I'm building for
a client. I'm interested in testing the ElementBuilder functionality
(to build, stamp, and edti PDF from PHP). But when I run the PHP
example on my local Windows machine, I receive an error. Fatal error:
Call to undefined function PDFNet_Initialize() in C:\wamp\bin\PDFNetC
\Lib\PDFNetPHP.php on line 15608

This is a Windows 7 machine running WAMP although our production
machine will be a Linux installation.

Any ideas that could help me determining the source of this error so I
can continue evaluating?

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A:

How did you run PHP example on Windows? I assume that you copied
PDFNetPHP.php and samples from Linux since at this very moment PHP is
not officialy supported on Windows :) .

You can download an unofficial pre-release Windows version of PDFNet
for PHP using the following link:
http://www.pdftron.com/IDR49Z9-B31B/PDFNetPHP.zip

This set of libraries are tested with the PHP 5.3.6 thread safe
version.

The php_PDFNetPHP.dll (from PDFNet/Lib folder) can be loaded like any
other PHP extension by placing it in the ext folder of the PHP install
directory, and adding the line "extension=php_PDFNetPHP.dll" to
php.ini.

The PDFNetC.dll should be placed in the Windows/System32 or any other
folder that can be accessed by php_PDFNetPHP.dll. Please let us know
how this works for you.

[Support]

Below are the steps I used to get PDFNet for PHP working on Abyss Web
Sever X1 on Windows XP:

1) Install VC 10 runtime (in not present on the machine). You can
obtain it from the following link:
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=8328

2) Installed Abyss Web Sever X1.

3) Installed the preconfigured Abyss PHP 5 package for Windows from
http://www.aprelium.com/data/php536.exe.

4) Followed instructions on http://www.aprelium.com/abyssws/php5win.html
to configure Abyss with PHP.

5) Donwloaded PDFNet SDK with PHP extension from:
http://www.pdftron.com/IDR49Z9-B31B/PDFNetC.zip

6) Copied PDFNetC/Lib and PDFNetC/Samples folder to the htdocs folder
in your Abyss install directory (eg. C:\Program Files\Abyss Web Server
\htdocs).

7) Modified php.ini file in Abyss PHP 5 installation directory to add
"extension=php_PDFNetPHP.dll" (eg. C:\Program Files\PHP5\php.ini)

8) Copied php_PDFNetPHP.dll to the PHP5 installation directory, and
PDFNetC.dll to C:\WINDOWS\system32.

9) Restart the server

10) Navigate to the StamperTest in the web browser (eg.
http://localhost/Samples/StamperTest/PHP/StamperTest.php)

The web browser should print "Done." at this point. You should find
the output files in the Samples/TestFiles/Output folder (eg.
http://localhost/Samples/TestFiles/Output/).

On Jul 12, 12:24 pm, Support <supp...@pdftron.com> wrote:
> Q: I'm evaluating PDFTron for use with an application I'm building for
> a client. I'm interested in testing the ElementBuilder functionality
> (to build, stamp, and edti PDF fromPHP). But when I run thePHP
> example on my local Windows machine, I receive an error. Fatal error:
> Call to undefined function PDFNet_Initialize() in C:\wamp\bin\PDFNetC

> \Lib\PDFNetPHP.phpon line 15608

>
> This is a Windows 7 machine running WAMP although our production
> machine will be a Linux installation.
>
> Any ideas that could help me determining the source of this error so I
> can continue evaluating?
>
> ----------------
> A:
>

> How did you runPHPexample on Windows? I assume that you copied
> PDFNetPHP.phpand samples from Linux since at this very momentPHPis

> not officialy supported on Windows :) .
>
> You can download an unofficial pre-release Windows version of PDFNet

> forPHPusing the following link:
>  http://www.pdftron.com/IDR49Z9-B31B/PDFNetPHP.zip
>
> This set of libraries are tested with thePHP5.3.6 thread safe

> version.
>
> The php_PDFNetPHP.dll (from PDFNet/Lib folder) can be loaded like any

> otherPHPextension by placing it in the ext folder of thePHPinstall

[Support]

Q: I am trying to make this work using Apache and not having much luck. 

 

I have copied PDFNetC.dll l to the windows/system32 folder.

I have copied the php_PDFNet.dl to the PHP install folder (c:\program files\php\ext\)

I have added "extension=php_PDFNet.dll" to the php.ini file

I have restarted the server

 

When Apache tries to start I get the following error:

 

PHP Startup

Unable to load dynamic link library c:\program files\php\ext\php_PDFNet.dll - Specified module not found.

 

Do you have any ideas of what could possibly be wrong?  The file is in the path specified

 

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A:  With some Apache servers the problem is that it uses older VC6 distribution of PHP instead of VC9.

 

In this case you would need to reference and use ‘php_PDFNetVC6.dll’ instead of ‘php_PDFNet.dll’.

[Sudhir Kumar]

I used steps from here,

https://github.com/PDFTron/PDFNetWrappers

for linux system and php 5.6. When i am running ./runall_php.sh, i am getting error as bellow

PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function PDFNet_Initialize()

Any idea . . ? how i can solve this.