<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >pdf_open_file</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="PDF functions " HREF="ref.pdf.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="pdf_open_CCITT" HREF="function.pdf-open-ccitt.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="pdf_open_gif" HREF="function.pdf-open-gif.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.pdf-open-ccitt.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.pdf-open-gif.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.pdf-open-file" ></A >pdf_open_file</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN71690" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 >= 4.0.5)</P >pdf_open_file -- Opens a new pdf object</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN71693" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >int <B CLASS="methodname" >pdf_open_file</B > ( int pdf object [, string filename])<BR ></BR ><P > Create a new PDF file using the supplied file name. If <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >filename</I ></TT > is empty the PDF document will be generated in memory instead of on file. The result must be fetched by the client with the <A HREF="function.pdf-get-buffer.html" ><B CLASS="function" >pdf_get_buffer()</B ></A > function. </P ><P > The following example shows how to create a pdf document in memory and how to output it correctly. <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN71708" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. Creating a PDF document in memory</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" ><?php $pdf = pdf_new(); pdf_open_file($pdf); pdf_begin_page($pdf, 595, 842); pdf_set_font($pdf, "Times-Roman", 30, "host"); pdf_set_value($pdf, "textrendering", 1); pdf_show_xy($pdf, "A PDF document created in memory!", 50, 750); pdf_end_page($pdf); pdf_close($pdf); $data = pdf_get_buffer($pdf); header("Content-type: application/pdf"); header("Content-disposition: inline; filename=test.pdf"); header("Content-length: " . strlen($data)); echo $data; ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.pdf-open-ccitt.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.pdf-open-gif.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >pdf_open_CCITT</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.pdf.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >pdf_open_gif</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >