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\"Document<\/a>

Document Root Relative Folder Listing Links PDF Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

Hopefully, all around the world, the idea of a …<\/p>\n


\nPDF
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

… display is replacing the “paper hungry” “hardcopy printout” concept. As such, the creation of a “PDF assembly” is our “second cab off the rank” as an output format offered to users trying out the recent select (ie. dropdown) “assemblies” we started yesterday with Document Root Relative Folder Listing Links Assemblies Tutorial<\/a>. We use a window.open popup again, latching onto the PHP recipient code …<\/p>\n

<?php
\n
\n$thingtoattendto='';
\n
\nfunction shutdown() {
\n global $thingtoattendto;
\n \/\/ This is our shutdown function, in
\n \/\/ here we can do any last operations
\n \/\/ before the script is complete.
\n
\n if ($thingtoattendto != '') {
\n sleep(145);
\n unlink($thingtoattendto);
\n }
\n}
\n
\n $convprefix='\/bin\/';
\n if (file_exists('\/usr\/local\/bin\/convert')) {
\n $convprefix='\/usr\/local\/bin\/';
\n } else if (!file_exists('\/bin\/convert')) {
\n $convprefix='';
\n }
\n
\n if (isset($_GET['apdflist']) && isset($_GET['apdfname'])) {
\n file_put_contents($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . \"tmp\" . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . basename(str_replace(\".pdf\",\".xxx\",str_replace('+',' ',urldecode($_GET['apdfname'])))), str_replace(\",\",\"\\n\" . $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'], $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . str_replace('+',' ',urldecode($_GET['apdflist']))));
\n exec($convprefix . 'convert @' . $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . \"tmp\" . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . basename(str_replace(\".pdf\",\".xxx\",str_replace('+',' ',urldecode($_GET['apdfname'])))) . ' ' . $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . \"tmp\" . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . basename(str_replace('+',' ',urldecode($_GET['apdfname']))));
\n $hsofar=\"<html><body><object data=\\\"\/tmp\/\" . basename(str_replace('+',' ',urldecode($_GET['apdfname']))) . \"\\\" type=\\\"application\/pdf\\\" data-base=data:application\/pdf;base64,\" . base64_encode(file_get_contents($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . \"tmp\" . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . basename(str_replace('+',' ',urldecode($_GET['apdfname']))))) . \"><\/object><\/body><\/html>\";
\n unlink($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . \"tmp\" . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . basename(str_replace(\".pdf\",\".xxx\",str_replace('+',' ',urldecode($_GET['apdfname'])))));
\n if (4 == 4) {
\n header('Content-Type: application\/pdf');
\n header('Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate, max-age=0'); \/\/ HTTP\/1.1
\n header('Pragma: public');
\n header('Expires: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT'); \/\/ Date in the past
\n header('Last-Modified: ' . gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s') . ' GMT');
\n header('Content-Length: ' . strlen(file_get_contents($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . \"tmp\" . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . basename(str_replace('+',' ',urldecode($_GET['apdfname']))))));
\n header(\"Content-Disposition: inline; filename=input.pdf\");
\n echo file_get_contents($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . \"tmp\" . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . basename(str_replace('+',' ',urldecode($_GET['apdfname']))));
\n unlink($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . \"tmp\" . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . basename(str_replace('+',' ',urldecode($_GET['apdfname']))));
\n exit;
\n } else {
\n echo $hsofar;
\n $thingtoattendto=$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . \"tmp\" . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . basename(str_replace('+',' ',urldecode($_GET['apdfname'])));
\n register_shutdown_function('shutdown');
\n \/\/sleep(45);
\n \/\/unlink($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . \"tmp\" . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . basename(str_replace('+',' ',urldecode($_GET['apdfname']))));
\n shutdown() and exit;
\n }
\n }
\n<\/code>
\n?><\/p>\n

… using ImageMagick<\/a>‘s brilliant “convert” command line command idea …<\/p>\n

\nconvert @list.txt output.pdf\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

as the backbone as to how in the “sixth draft”<\/a> one_line_find.php<\/a> Document Root Relative Folder Listing<\/a> web application you can “crank up” below<\/a>, yet again, if you, and your ilk, along with their family and friends, townfolk and countryfolk alike, like.<\/p>\n

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Previous relevant Document Root Relative Folder Listing Links Assemblies Tutorial<\/a> is shown below.<\/p>\n

\"Document<\/a>

Document Root Relative Folder Listing Links Assemblies Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

So far, with the Document Root Relative Folder Listing work of recent times, up until the day before yesterday’s Document Root Relative Folder Listing Links Ajax Tutorial<\/a>, it’s been mainly …<\/p>\n