I have a fillable PDF form, and when the user fills out the form and presses submit button I would like that WHOLE PDF (not just the filled fields) to be sent to a specific email address.
There were a few questions discussing a similar weather it is possible or not, the answer is YES it is doable.
Now the question is what are the steps to create such a submit button?
In other words - on submit I want a filled PDF to be sent to a admin's email address.
Set the option in the Submit action of the form to send the whole document.
Note that your users will need Acrobat (any version), or Reader XI or newer. To serve older Reader versions, you would have to assign Extended Rights using Acrobat (Save as other… --> Reader enhanced PDF).
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The warning on point 5 of downloads page is a plugin error. I did log a support ticket about this but it has not had a response - https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-before-download-error-php/
I use a Email before download plugin, Contact form 7 plugin.
We need a popup form to appear when you click a download button (it is doing this now). but then if you want to download a 2nd or 3rd document in the same session, you shouldn’t have to fill out the form again as all the details will be the same and it would be very annoying to the customer so the user should be allowed to download as many documents as they want, after entering the details after the first download.
How do I do this?
I created a pdf form using acrobat. The form has a submit button, and I would like to actually submit the entire form, and upload it to the server. Is there a way to do this? I am experienced with PHP, and other languages, but not so much with anything to do with PDF Forms.
During form creation, when you select the submit action for your button, Acrobat shows a dialog which asks you for the URL to submit the form data to. This dialog allows you to also select how the form shall be submitted. (At least it's this way in my ancient Acrobat 9.5.)
If you want the whole form to be submitted, i.e. a complete PDF with filled-in form fields, select the option for the complete PDF document.
If you don't want to get the base document you already have, but merely want to retrieve the additions as incremental update, select the option for the FDF and check step-wise changes box. You can build the complete PDF from the original form and these incremental updates.
For some backgrounds see my answer to your other question.
I've scoured the forums/web for this answer, but I've failed to come up with a solution.
I have a PHP based form that inputs form data onto a PDF generated by FPDF/FPDI (utilizing a pre-made template). That, in and of itself, is working just fine.
I have one version that is a simple quote; the user can input their email without adding in personal information if they're not ready to move forward. A PDF is created with their quote info. The question has come up on whether or not this generated PDF can have form input fields and a send button, that way the client can send along their newly completed form with their quote information.
Does anyone know of a utility out there that can generate a functional PDF with input fields/send button and also input data from a PHP form?
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i am really stuck here i have been trying and i am posting here hope some one will help me.
i have a html form where i enter my data and before submitting i need to view my data in the html form and if i need changes change it rt there and submit .
i am able to enter data and how do i display the data without submitting.
To preview your form data before posting you have two options basically: the first is to preview it by using JavaScript to dynamically open a new window and then show your data formatted as you want, the second is to post your data to your server and return a new page containing the data you posted but not yet being integrate to your database, this is a kind of confirmation page, whatever is the option there should be a confirmation button to accept or reject the submission and integration of the data in your database.
The second option requires you to create a new page on the server side for confirmation (preview), having all the power of your web server language.
In general, you have a Preview button and a Save (or Post) one.
The Preview button submits the data which is processed by the server-side script (interpreting markup language, or filtering HTML or other stuff) and converted to HTML, then sent back to the user along with the text field with the raw data.
Then the Save/Post button does the same, but saves the data to the database, and similarly output the HTML, without the text field.
A quite generic answer to a quite generic question...
The question that comes to my mind is how this preview would look different from the data entry page. I mean, if the user is supposed to enter, say, name, address, and favorite color, presumably that data is visible on the screen as they type it. What would a preview do? If you're talking about some sort of validation, like color must be on your list of approved colors or some such, then you have two basic choices: You could do the vaildation with JavaScript before sending to the server, or you could send to the server and let it do validation. I would point out that if you do client-side validation, you really should still validate on the server, esecially if there are security or hacking issues. You have no assurance that the data stream sent to your server really came from the page that you sent to the user. The user could create his own page to send data to your server.
The only other thing I can think of is a formatting preview, like here on Stack Overflow where what you type in may include codes that control format. In that case you might want to use Javascript to give immediate feedback, again, like is done here.
perhaps you can have two buttons one as a preview and one as submit so when u preview it sends the form value in a different page and displays it in a format you want.
The submit button will just do the submitting etc. what u plan to do .
hope that helps
i created a system using php..
on my system..there is a form...in that form has a submit button and view in pdf button ..
so my question is how to transform my php form into pdf form..user can view the form in pdf format even he did not submit the form yet and the details that he enter is appear in the pdf format form..please help me..
You'll need to create the form in Acrobat Pro, PDFpen Pro, FoxIt Reader (with appropriate add-ons), etc. In doing that, you can include a form control button that submits the form values to a URL as POST. Write a PHP script to receive that POST similar to an HTML form POST, and you're good to go.
From there, you just post the PDF to your site and let the visitor's PDF tools do the rest.
Note that form validation is also handled in-PDF. The tool you use to create the form will include a bunch of ready-to-go validations you can use (e.g., phone number or social security number), and if something's missing, you can incorporate JavaScript. Note that the JS runs in the PDF reader, not the browser, so it'll work even if the user has JS turned off.