PHP Question

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Hi all,

I am making a prison break fan website and want to use the php classes FPDI

http://www.setasign.de/products/pdf-php-solutions/fpdi/

I'm using php version 4.2.2.

However, I get the following error

Warning: Wrong parameter count for class_exists() in /....../fpdi.php on line 24

Line 24 reads:

if (class_exists('TCPDF',false)) {

Has anyone any experience with this?

Thanks

Goodshape

The second parameter of class_exists() was added in PHP 5.0, and so that isn't going to work for you with PHP 4.2.2

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.class-exists.php

You could try changing Line 24 to:

if (class_exists('TCPDF')) {

but I imagine you'll just run into other problems. Is there a reason that you're not using PHP 5?

pvt6zh395dqbrj

Hey,

Yeah that seems to have worked. Thanks alot.

Now I get an error saying

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /mnt/home/external/extatic/public_html/fpdf_tpl.php on line 262

Fatal error: Class fpdi: Cannot inherit from undefined class fpdf_tpl in /mnt/home/external/extatic/public_html/fpdi.php on line 31

The first one is probably a misplaced comma or something. But I don't know about the second one.

line 31 is

class FPDI extends FPDF_TPL {

and the file fpdf_tpl.php is in the same folder as fpdi.php

pvt6zh395dqbrj

Ah I think I worked it out.

The parse error in fpdf_tpl.php is on a line which starts with

public function


public and private and so on are only for php 5, is that correct?

pvt6zh395dqbrj

Ok parse error is gone but undefined class error remains. I may try declare them both in the same file.

Goodshape

Again though, why are you using PHP 4.2? That release is almost 10 years old and is no longer supported. I strongly suspect the library you're trying to use was not built with a ten year old PHP version in mind.

Current stable release of PHP is 5.3.8.

Creamy Goodness

Goodshape wrote: »

Again though, why are you using PHP 4.2? That release is almost 10 years old and is no longer supported. I strongly suspect the library you're trying to use was not built with a ten year old PHP version in mind.

Current stable release of PHP is 5.3.8.

he's probably using a hosting provider which has 4.2.2 installed, again this would ring alarm bells in my mind.

pvt6zh395dqbrj

Hi,

Yes the people who host my website have 4.2.2 installed.

Webmonkey

Sometimes you can decide which PHP version to run and this is configurable via the host's control panel. I'd update to 5 if you can.

Baz_

The bigger question here is why would anyone make a fan website for a show cancelled years ago...

I mean season one was entertaining enough and a site made then would have made sense, but the show got progressively worse (I think the writers must have been suffering the same illness as the lead guy and came out with progressively worse ****e) to the point that it made me throw up in my mouth after the last episodes, which I had to watch because I had invested so much time in the show.

My advice is that you'll get better advice about your technical issue here if you are more forthcoming with information youre asked for, you seem pretty cagey. I mean why is your host using 4.2, php is free and you can have multiple versions installed on a machine so it sounds dubious...

My second piece of advice, do a fan website for an as yet uncancelled show, person of interest is at season one and quite entertaining for example...

pvt6zh395dqbrj

Hi,

1) Prison Break rules. Every episode is great and I take offence to your choice of language.

2) My host uses PHP 4.2.2. I have contacted them to ask them to upgrade to the newest PHP and they said they would.

What I wish to do is extract data from a pdf form. Now, I have written a script that will extract information from a pdf and store it as text. However, the specific pdf file I wish to work with has editable fields. You cannot stably extend rights to adobe reader users which allow them to save the data in the fields. THis means that when the text is extracted, the data in the fields is not. This is a problem because that is the very data I wish to store in a data base. And so the solution I have thought of (and I'm not sure if it will work so I didn't describe it in detail) is to read in the pdf, then make an image of it which is pdf'd and then convert that to text. To do all this I have to use the aforementioned pdf library that I spoke of.

Thanks