How to merge PDF files in PHP

Merge PDF files in PHP

This gist shows the code snippets on how to merge multiple PDF files into single combined PDF using PHP

merge-PDF-files-.php

/**** Section 1 ****/
$appSID = ’b1a1b925-cbd0-40c3-b7d5-075c93601243’
$appKey = ‘343ebf767f3f53537a45ced31d6be34f’;

//build URI to merge PDFs
$strURI = ‘http://api.aspose.com/v1.1/pdf/MergedFile.pdf/merge’;
//sign URI
$signedURI = sign($strURI, $appSID, $appKey);
/**** End Section 1 ****/

/**** Section 2 ****/
//Build JSON to post
$documentsList = array(‘List’=> array(‘input1.pdf’, ‘input2.pdf’, ‘input3.pdf’));
$json = json_encode($documentsList);     
/**** End Section 2 ****/

/**** Section 3 ****/
$responseStream = processCommand($signedURI, ‘PUT’, ‘json‘, $json);
/**** End Section 3 ****/

/**** Section 4 ****/
//Download merged PDF
//build URI
$strURI = ‘http://stage.aspose.com/v1.1/storage/file/MergedFile.pdf’;
//sign URI
$signedURI = sign($strURI, $appSID, $appKey);
$responseStream = processCommand($signedURI, “GET”, “”, “”);
$outputPath = getcwd() . ‘/output/MergedFile.pdf’;
saveFile($responseStream, $outputPath);
echo ‘Files have been merged and output file has been saved at: ‘ . $outputPath;   
/**** End Section 4 ****/

merge-pdf-files.php

use AsposeCloudCommonAsposeApp;
use AsposeCloudCommonUtils;
use AsposeCloudCommonProduct;
use AsposeCloudStorageFolder;
use AsposeCloudPDFDocument;

/**** Section 1 ****/
// define Client credentials
AsposeApp::$appSID = “b1a1b925-cbd0-40c3-b7d5-075c93601243”;
AsposeApp::$appKey = “343ebf767f3f53537a45ced31d6be34f”;

// set the API base URI
$baseProductUri = “http://api.aspose.com/v1.1”;

AsposeApp::$outPutLocation = getcwd() . “/Output/”;
/**** End Section 1 ****/

/**** Section 2 ****/ 
// name of input PDF files to be merged
$inputFile1 = getcwd() . “/Input/input1.pdf”;
$inputFile2 = getcwd() . “/Input/input2.pdf”;
$inputFile3 = getcwd() . “/Input/input3.pdf”;

// the name of resultant PDF
$mergedFileName = “MergedFile.pdf”;

//upload input PDF files to cloud storage
echo “Uploading main document…<br />”;
$folder = new Folder();

$folder->UploadFile($inputFile1, “”);

$folder->UploadFile($inputFile2, “”);

$folder->UploadFile($inputFile3, “”);

echo “input files uploaded <br />”;
/**** End Section 2 ****/

/**** Section 3 ****/
echo “Merging PDF files… <br />”;
//create Document object
$doc = new Document($mergedFileName);

// initiate the PDF merge request
$result = $doc->mergeDocuments(array(‘input1.pdf’,‘input2.pdf’,‘input3.pdf’));
/**** End Section 3 ****/