FPDF requires no extension (except zlib to activate compression and GD for GIF support). It works with PHP 4 and PHP 5 (the latest version requires at least PHP 4.3.10).

Using FPDF I will demonstrate hpw to add images and text. Firstly we need to download the library from the below mentioned URL’s

http://www.fpdf.org/

http://fpdi.setasign.de/index.php?p=home

Extract both packages in same folder and put the pdf in the same folder and name it as mypdf.pdf

Now we will create a script that will add text to pdf.

<?php

define(‘FPDF_FONTPATH’,'font/’);
require(‘fpdi.php’);

class PDF extends fpdi
{
//PDF Header
function Header()
{
//Logo
//$this-&gt;Image(‘logo.png’,10,8,33);
//Verdana bold 15
//$this-&gt;SetFont(‘Verdana’,'B’,15);
//Move to the right
//$this-&gt;Cell(80);
//Adding Title
//$this-&gt;Cell(30,10,’This is the title’,1,0,’C');
//Line break
//$this-&gt;Ln(20);
}

//PDF footer
function Footer()
{
//Positioning 1.5 cm from bottom
$this-&gt;SetY(-15);
//Verdana italic 8
$this-&gt;SetFont(‘Verdana’,'I’,8);
//Page number
$this-&gt;Cell(0,10,’This document was downloaded at ‘.date(“G:i T”, time()).’ on ‘.date(“l F jS Y”, time()).’. This document is only valid for 24 hours from this date.’,0,0,’C');
}
}

$pdf= new PDF();

$pagecount = $pdf-&gt;setSourceFile(“mypdf.pdf”);

for ($i=1; $i &lt;= $pagecount; $i++) {

$tplidx = $pdf-&gt;ImportPage(1);

$pdf-&gt;addPage();
$pdf-&gt;useTemplate($tplidx,0,0,0);
}

$pdf-&gt;Output(“newpdf.pdf”,”I”);

?>

The above script is more easy and explanatory. You can refer more about the function in the URL http://www.fpdf.org/

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