Creating a PDF with PHP?

[rob_wasley35]

I wrote a script to create a simple pdf, and when i try running it on my site all i get is...

[B]Fatal error[/B]:  Call to undefined function  pdf_new() in [B]/home/halfdown/public_html/test/pdftest.php[/B] on line [B]2[/B]

Does the PHP libraries support the creation of PDF files?
If so then can someone tell me what i may be doing wrong?

 

[lemon-tree]

If I remember correctly, the native PDFlib is not available on free hosting, hence the error that its instantiating function is not defined.
However, you can instead use one of these: http://www.fpdf.org/ or http://www.tcpdf.org/ . My personal preference is to use TCPDF and I did successfully get it to work on free hosting without any major issues.