Edit PDF files programmatically in PHP

Background info: I got a project to produce a customised PDF on the fly from a given PDF file using PHP. All I need it to do is to replace strings, e.g. search in "template.pdf" for "{Address}", replace with "Street Name".

I've seen links to fpdf/pdfi/dompdf etc., bu开发者_如何学运维t can't find any useful example code that I could use :s. Any help / pointers would be greatly appreciated.

fpdf is fantastic, you need to use somthing else to import an exisitng PDF though, See below.

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

require_once('fpdf.php');
require_once('fpdi.php');

$pdf =& new FPDI();

$pagecount = $pdf->setSourceFile('TestDoc.pdf');
$tplidx = $pdf->importPage(1, '/MediaBox');

$pdf->addPage();
$pdf->useTemplate($tplidx, 10, 10, 90);

$pdf->Output('newpdf.pdf', 'D');

decided to generate html web page (PHP) then use wkhtmltopdf (http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf)

to produce the pdf bit of a work around but less hastle

PDFlib (with the additional PDI) from pdflib.com should be able to do this for you. Admittedly it is pretty pricey, so there may be other options, too :)