Merge PDF files with PHP [closed]

My concept is - there are 10 pdf files in a website. User can select some pdf files and then select merge to create a single pdf file which contains the selected pages. How can i do this with php?

Below is the php PDF merge command.

$fileArray= array("name1.pdf","name2.pdf","name3.pdf","name4.pdf");

$datadir = "save_path/";
$outputName = $datadir."merged.pdf";

$cmd = "gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=$outputName ";
//Add each pdf file to the end of the command
foreach($fileArray as $file) {
    $cmd .= $file." ";
}
$result = shell_exec($cmd);

I forgot the link from where I found it, but it works fine.

Note: You should have gs (on linux and probably Mac), or Ghostscript (on windows) installed for this to work.

i suggest PDFMerger from github.com, so easy like ::

include 'PDFMerger.php';

$pdf = new PDFMerger;

$pdf->addPDF('samplepdfs/one.pdf', '1, 3, 4')
    ->addPDF('samplepdfs/two.pdf', '1-2')
    ->addPDF('samplepdfs/three.pdf', 'all')
    ->merge('file', 'samplepdfs/TEST2.pdf'); // REPLACE 'file' WITH 'browser', 'download', 'string', or 'file' for output options

I've done this before. I had a pdf that I generated with fpdf, and I needed to add on a variable amount of PDFs to it.

So I already had an fpdf object and page set up (http://www.fpdf.org/) And I used fpdi to import the files (http://www.setasign.de/products/pdf-php-solutions/fpdi/) FDPI is added by extending the PDF class:

class PDF extends FPDI
{

} 



    $pdffile = "Filename.pdf";
    $pagecount = $pdf->setSourceFile($pdffile);  
    for($i=0; $i<$pagecount; $i++){
        $pdf->AddPage();  
        $tplidx = $pdf->importPage($i+1, '/MediaBox');
        $pdf->useTemplate($tplidx, 10, 10, 200); 
    }

This basically makes each pdf into an image to put into your other pdf. It worked amazingly well for what I needed it for.

$cmd = "gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=".$new." ".implode(" ", $files);
shell_exec($cmd);

A simplified version of Chauhan's answer

Both the accepted answer and even the FDPI homepage seem to give botched or incomplete examples. Here's mine which works and is easy to implement. As expected it requires fpdf and fpdi libraries:

FPDF: http://www.fpdf.org/en/download.php
FPDI: https://www.setasign.com/products/fpdi/downloads

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

$files = ['doc1.pdf', 'doc2.pdf', 'doc3.pdf'];

$pdf = new FPDI();

// iterate over array of files and merge
foreach ($files as $file) {
    $pageCount = $pdf->setSourceFile($file);
    for ($i = 0; $i < $pageCount; $i++) {
        $tpl = $pdf->importPage($i + 1, '/MediaBox');
        $pdf->addPage();
        $pdf->useTemplate($tpl);
    }
}

// output the pdf as a file (http://www.fpdf.org/en/doc/output.htm)
$pdf->Output('F','merged.pdf');

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