[Swftools-common] Getting pdf2swf to work on a WIN NT server

[Anthony Mac Egan]

Hi Guys,

I am hoping ye can help me as I am a newbie to Swftools.

 

I am trying to create a swf on the fly server side. I am using code I found posted at http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg02540.html . It works perfectly on my windows machine using WAMP’s localhost but not on my server. I basically uploaded the contents from the SWFTools folder to my server. All can be seen at http://banteerhistory.ie//PDFFiles/SWFTools/ with http://banteerhistory.ie//PDFFiles/SWFTools/testP2S.php calling the pdf2swf.exe. There is an info.php file in the same folder.

From the phpinfo() function I see the Environment; HTTP_USER_AGENT--Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/7.0.517.44 Safari/534.7 and my server is using PHP Version 5.2.9.

 

Can anyone give me some pointers where to go from here to get this working.

My code is as follows; note trying both system() and exec() functions.

<?php

   $output = array();

    $return = 0;

    $pdfFile = "dearg.pdf";

    $swfFile = "outfile.swf";

 

    $PDF2SWFOptions = "--flashversion=10";

  

 

    // Ensure pdf2swf is in your ($)path, or define the full path here.

    if(PHP_OS == "WIN32" || PHP_OS == "WINNT")

        $pdf2Swf = 'pdf2swf.exe ';

    else // if (PHP_OS == "Linux")

        $pdf2Swf = 'pdf2swf ';

//   $command = $pdf2Swf . $PDF2SWFOptions . $pdfFile . '" -o "' . $swfFile;

              $command = $pdf2Swf . $PDF2SWFOptions . ' "' . $pdfFile . '" -o "' .$swfFile . '"';

              $result = system($command);

              echo "<pre>$command</pre>";

    exec($command, $output, $return);

 

?>

 

Best regards,

Anthony