Jonathon Posted September 26, 2011 Share Posted September 26, 2011 Hi Larry & all, I was just working through your PDF chapters on the extra material on PHP5 advanced and I am having a problem, I keep getting this error: "A PDFlib exception occurred: Handle parameter or option of type 'image' has bad value 0" This is using both mine and your code from the download section and i've used my own image and also your image with the same result. I was wondering if you know what this exactly means? I've done a fair amount of Googling, but sadly the I can't seem to see what the problem even means. I also kept finding reference to a DOMPDF in Google, but didn't think this applied to my set up. I'm using XAMPP and PDFLib 7.0.5 There's no rush in replying and I don't necessarily need a massive answer, I just can't even find what a bad value of 0 means?If you happened to know what this could mean, could you let me know please. Also I did see somewhere try an absolute path, which still returned the same answer. Thanks Jonathon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted October 6, 2011 Share Posted October 6, 2011 Hello Jonathon, Yeah, the errors from PDFLib aren't so helpful, are they? I believe that error will be because it can't find the image to include, as you suspect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathon Posted October 6, 2011 Author Share Posted October 6, 2011 Hi Larry, No they're not very helpful, you'd think even just a couple of words wouldn't have been too hard. I shall try and fix this error tomorrow and let you know how I get on. Thanks for the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 I used to work with the PDFLib all the time and it was pretty much the only game in town, but, ugh! I've recently started using the Zend_PDF lib, but not to any degree. Let us know how you make out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathon Posted October 8, 2011 Author Share Posted October 8, 2011 Since reading either your e-commerce book or blog posts I have now started to consider Zend as an alternative to a lot of other (often outdated) packages. I used it for sending a HTML email with the ecommerce book and it's very clean and one would automatically presume that their security is also very top notch. That's not saying that mine isn't but accidents and bugs do happen, so that's reassuring. I've also started to use it for my Lucene project too and I could very well start using it for the PDFs too. I haven't had chance really to look at either my Lucene or PDF attempts since I posted, something inevitably comes up, but I shall let you know how I get on. Although I haven't looked into it, I wouldn't be surprised if Zend on a whole provides similar examples of some of PEARs better features, maybe such as a GEO-location package. Though I don't think I'd ever warrant using Zend from scratch or actually want to use it unless a was attempting something fairly colossal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 That's pretty much the perspective I have now: don't care for Zend as the basis of a site, but it's a good alternative to PEAR or specific functionality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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