I need to pull data from my MySQL database and place the data into
form fields of a PRE-CREATED PDF template.  Once the data is set into
the fields, I need to save a copy of this newly generated PDF to be
picked up later.  All of this has to be done on the server side.  I am
running PHP/MySQL/Linux.

1. I already know the function that generates an FDF and subs the data
into the PDF on the client site (output_fdf).  That does me no good -
this ALL has to be done SERVER-SIDE.

2. I am running on an ISP account here (with shell access) so i cannot
recompile the PHP engine or install big packages.

The output_fdf function found at
http://www.zend.com/codex.php?id=925&single=1 is great, but for CLIENT
SIDE PDF GENERATION.  I need something similar to this but that will
save the resulting PDF on the SERVER.

THanks!

Hi ideaapply-ga,

I recommend you http://www.reportlab.org/ it's using Python, but you
will not have any problems integrating it with PHP/MySQL/Linux
Reportlab is one of the best in the are of PDF reporting.

Regards,
John San

Try http://www.pdflib.com.