Convert Images To PDF From Uploaded Files - PHP
PDF from Images (JPG to PDF and PNG to PDF) sample in PHP demonstrating ‘Convert Images To PDF From Uploaded Files’
image-to-pdf.php
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Image To PDF Conversion Results</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
// Note: If you have input files large than 200kb we highly recommend to check "async" mode example.
// Get submitted form data
$apiKey = $_POST["apiKey"]; // The authentication key (API Key). Get your own by registering at https://pdf.co
// 1. UPLOAD FILES TO CLOUD
// If you already have direct file links, skip to Step 2.
$uploadedFiles = array();
$fileCount = count($_FILES["files"]["name"]);
for($i = 0; $i < $fileCount; $i++)
{
// 1a. RETRIEVE THE PRESIGNED URL TO UPLOAD THE FILE.
// Create URL
$url = "https://api.pdf.co/v1/file/upload/get-presigned-url" .
"?name=" . urlencode($_FILES["files"]["name"][$i]) .
"&contenttype=application/octet-stream";
// Create request
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("x-api-key: " . $apiKey));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
// Execute request
$result = curl_exec($curl);
if (curl_errno($curl) == 0)
{
$status_code = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
if ($status_code == 200)
{
$json = json_decode($result, true);
// Get URL to use for the file upload
$uploadFileUrl = $json["presignedUrl"];
// Get URL of uploaded file to use with later API calls
$uploadedFileUrl = $json["url"];
// 1b. UPLOAD THE FILE TO CLOUD.
$tmpFilePath = $_FILES["files"]["tmp_name"][$i];
$fileHandle = fopen($tmpFilePath, "r");
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $uploadFileUrl);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("content-type: application/octet-stream"));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_PUT, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_INFILE, $fileHandle);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, filesize($tmpFilePath));
// Execute request
curl_exec($curl);
if (curl_errno($curl) == 0)
{
$status_code = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
if ($status_code == 200)
{
$uploadedFiles[] = $uploadedFileUrl;
}
else
{
// Display request error
echo "<p>Uploading File Status code: " . $status_code . " : " . $uploadedFileUrl . "</p>";
echo "<p>error status for uploading files (1 means error related to php.ini config or tmp folder permissions): " . $_FILES['files']['error'] . "</p>";
echo "<p>" . $result . "</p>";
}
}
else
{
// Display CURL error
echo "cURL Error: " . curl_error($curl);
}
fclose($fileHandle);
}
else
{
// Display request error
echo "<p>Error Uploading: Status code: " . $status_code . "</p>";
echo "<p>" . $result . "</p>";
}
}
else
{
// Display CURL error
echo "cURL Error: " . curl_error($curl);
}
curl_close($curl);
}
// 2. CREATE PDF DOCUMENT FROM UPLOADED IMAGE FILES
if (count($uploadedFiles) > 0)
{
ImageToPdf($apiKey, $uploadedFiles);
}
function ImageToPdf($apiKey, $uploadedFiles)
{
// Create URL
$url = "https://api.pdf.co/v1/pdf/convert/from/image";
// Prepare requests params
$parameters = array();
$parameters["name"] = "result.pdf";
$parameters["url"] = join(",", $uploadedFiles);
// Create Json payload
$data = json_encode($parameters);
// Create request
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("x-api-key: " . $apiKey, "Content-type: application/json"));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
// Execute request
$result = curl_exec($curl);
if (curl_errno($curl) == 0)
{
$status_code = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
if ($status_code == 200)
{
$json = json_decode($result, true);
if (!isset($json["error"]) || $json["error"] == false)
{
$resultFileUrl = $json["url"];
// Display link to the file with conversion results
echo "<div>## Conversion Result:<a href='" . $resultFileUrl . "' target='_blank'>" . $resultFileUrl . "</a></div>";
}
else
{
// Display service reported error
echo "<p>PDF.co API execution Error: " . $json["message"] . "</p>";
}
}
else
{
// Display request error
echo "<p>API Call Status code: " . $status_code . ": " . $url . "</p>";
echo "<p>" . $result . "</p>";
}
}
else
{
// Display CURL error
echo "cURL Error 2: " . curl_error($curl);
}
// Cleanup
curl_close($curl);
}
?>
</body>
</html>
sample.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Image To PDF Cloud API Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<form name="form1" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" action="image-to-pdf.php">
<p>
<label>Authentication key (API Key). Get your own by registering at <a href="https://apidocs.pdf.co">https://apidocs.pdf.co</a>.</label>
<br/>
<input type="text" name="apiKey" placeholder="API Key"/>
</p>
<p>
<label>Input Images Files (*.png;*.jpg)</label>
<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="8000000"/>
<input type="file" name="files[]" multiple accept="image/jpeg,image/png"/>
</p>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Proceed" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
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