There are some cases where you might need a powerful pdf toolkit to use with php. 1and1 does not come with any built in pdf processors or pdf libraries built into php. Here is the process I used to integrate phptk into my 1and1 shared hosting account.
Requirements: 1and1 shared plan that has ssh support
- Download pdftk deb file for debian etch (http://packages.debian.org/etch/i386/pdftk/download):
wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/pdftk/pdftk_1.40-2_i386.deb
ar xv pdftk_1.40-2_i386.deb
- Extract the data.tar.gz file:
tar xvzf data.tar.gz
- Download libgcj deb file for debian etc (http://packages.debian.org/etch/i386/libgcj7-0/download):
wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gcj-4.1/libgcj7-0_4.1.1-20_i386.deb
- Extract the libgcj deb file:
ar xv libgcj7-0_4.1.1-20_i386.deb
- Extract the data.tar.gz file:
tar xvzf data.tar.gz
- Create a script to link libgcj for pdftk (use nano or vi):
#!/bin/bash
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="usr/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" usr/bin/pdftk $*
- Chmod the pdftk script so it can run:
chmod 755 pdftk
Now you can run pdftk from your main directory and process files from php or cronjobs.
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