I've gone ahead and built one.

Try it:

http://www.tokyomuslim.com/2010/04/php-class-to-run-pdfcrowd...

I don't blame anyone for not wanting to use PHP's poorly documented CURL classes.

Thanks for getting this done. But come on, CURL is documented pretty well. There are even examples. What's there to know? Init a connection, set the flags, pass in whatever you like, submit, and check response. Pretty straightforward to me.

The CURL stuff seems so oddly unlike the rest of the PHP commands; it's more-or-less a direct port of the c++ library, names & all included.

The place where it reallllly irritates is the cookie management, but thankfully I didn't have to deal with that in this case. (I did for a client at a newspaper - nightmarish.)

No special reason - I just don't know PHP. But it is on the todo list.