<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >cpdf_open</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="ClibPDF functions" HREF="ref.cpdf.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="cpdf_newpath" HREF="function.cpdf-newpath.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="cpdf_output_buffer" HREF="function.cpdf-output-buffer.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.cpdf-newpath.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.cpdf-output-buffer.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.cpdf-open" ></A >cpdf_open</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN12541" ></A ><P > (PHP 3>= 3.0.8, PHP 4 )</P >cpdf_open -- Opens a new pdf document</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN12544" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >int <B CLASS="methodname" >cpdf_open</B > ( int compression [, string filename])<BR ></BR ><P > The <B CLASS="function" >cpdf_open()</B > function opens a new pdf document. The first parameter turns document compression on if it is unequal to 0. The second optional parameter sets the file in which the document is written. If it is omitted the document is created in memory and can either be written into a file with the <A HREF="function.cpdf-save-to-file.html" ><B CLASS="function" >cpdf_save_to_file()</B ></A > or written to standard output with <A HREF="function.cpdf-output-buffer.html" ><B CLASS="function" >cpdf_output_buffer()</B ></A >. <DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > The return value will be needed in further versions of ClibPDF as the first parameter in all other functions which are writing to the pdf document. </P ><P > The ClibPDF library takes the filename "-" as a synonym for stdout. If PHP is compiled as an apache module this will not work because the way ClibPDF outputs to stdout does not work with apache. You can solve this problem by skipping the filename and using <A HREF="function.cpdf-output-buffer.html" ><B CLASS="function" >cpdf_output_buffer()</B ></A > to output the pdf document. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV > </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.cpdf-close.html" ><B CLASS="function" >cpdf_close()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.cpdf-output-buffer.html" ><B CLASS="function" >cpdf_output_buffer()</B ></A >. </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.cpdf-newpath.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.cpdf-output-buffer.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >cpdf_newpath</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.cpdf.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >cpdf_output_buffer</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >