I have a small PHP webpage on which people can register for some events. After registration they receive email with confirmation in PDF (template with fill in fields like last name, mail address etc.).
There are so many changes in this PDF template that updating it using FPDF code take too much time.
Is there any option to create PDF templates (e.g. with Adobe Acrobat) with given "fill in fields" and then link it to web page function which fill them in using data from given MySQL table columns? Something like that:
1. Open PDF template (instead of using FPDF code)
2. Fill in first field in template with name from MySQL table column A
3. Fill in second field in template with last name from MySQL table column B
4. ...
5. Save template as xxx.pdf and send it via mail.
Shortly speaking - how replace FPDF code creation by attaching PDF file on which I can fill in given fields using MySQL records?
try with FPDM. You can create a PDF template with Adobe Acrobat, containing various fields. After that you can process the file with PHP and fill the fields with data from your SQL tables.
Take a look here: http://www.fpdf.org/en/script/script93.php
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Using PHP how can I show editable PDF form and then on submit get the information? I have a PDF form which I have converted to editable PDF form using Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro, I now want to show it in the browser so that user can fill. On submit I want to get the information entered in that form and store in the database.
To read and write a pdf you can use some PDF libraries like FPDI or PDFtoHTML.
Follow this link Read pdf files with php
But in your use case I am not sure why you are using a PDF form if your intention is just to save the user inputs into database. I would recommend use a HTML form instead, will be easier for you to manage.
im doing one simple project for an advertisement agent in php. in that when the admin upload the name,images and description of the product the data need to store in mysql(completed) and a html page need to create for that particular product in that html page the data which is inserted into the database of that particular product need to display. Is that possible? Any refference is there...?
The data you want to display to the user, you can do the task via PHP. Get data from mysql via PHP & display it to the user. Why creating the separate HTML page!
Yes, Possible.
Upload Product image on the server and store images link, name and description in MySQL Table.
In your php script make connection to the database and fetch the data in your php script. After display the data as you want.
PHP CRUD Tutorial (part 1)
File Upload and View With PHP and MySQL
Trying to allow outputs in PDF format from a website. One of the PDF's is a document that I have to build using data from a database, and just fill in a template. I'm using TCPDF to create the PDF files from the website.
Rather than having to construct the whole form in HTML and fill that in and convert it to PDF, I was wondering if I could have a pdf stored on the web hosting with the empty fields as interactive form fields, and fill it using TCPDF and the data from the database? Or if not, is there another way of doing this? Or is it just going to be simpler to build the form as an empty HTML shell and fill it in using database data before parsing to pdf?
You cannot fill in a PDF form with TCPDF but you only can create one. You may use FPDI to import the PDF form (without form fields!) and write to the positions of the form fields manually. If you need to fill in a PDF form with PHP you may take a look at the SetaPDF-FormFiller component (not free!). It's that easy:
$document = SetaPDF_Core_Document::loadByFile('pdfForm.pdf');
$formFiller = new SetaPDF_FormFiller($document);
$fields = $formFiller->getFields();
$fields['name']->setValue('Your name');
$fields['age']->setValue('25');
$document->save()->finish();
I have successfully created 3 Breezing Forms forms on a Joomla site and would like to know the best way to use the form data saved to the database to fill a PDF form, then be emailed to a specific address as a final step when the form is completed by the user. I'm aware that with Breezing Forms you can export form data to PDF, but the my forms are too complex in layout for the format of that type of export. What I need is the form data to populate a formatted PDF form.
Here is an example of one of the forms and the PDF it should fill:
Form: http://www.nutriworkscnc.com/Development/index.php?option=com_breezingforms&view=form&Itemid=640
PDF: http://www.nutriworkscnc.com/Development/images/forms/history.pdf
You essentially have two ways to fill the PDF form: client-side and server-side.
For client-side filling, you would create a FDF file with the /F key pointing to the base PDF (some people would call that the Template file). Then you would send the FDF to the user and a savvy PDF viewer would then load the base PDF and fill it.
If you have to serve dumb PDF viewers, you'd have to rely on server-side filling. For that, there are applications, such as FDFMerge by Appligent, or libraries, such as iText. You then will have to prepare the data in an appropriate way for your server-side filling tool.
If you want to solve this by using PHP you may take a look at the SetaPDF-FormFiller component (not free!). With it you can fill the fields through a very simple interface:
// Create an http writer
$writer = new SetaPDF_Core_Writer_Http("filled.pdf");
// Load document by filename
$document = SetaPDF_Core_Document::loadByFilename("history.pdf", $writer);
// Initiate a form filler instance
$formFiller = new SetaPDF_FormFiller($document);
// Get the fields instance
$fields = $formFiller->getFields();
// fill in the fields
$fields["Client Name"]->setValue("Test Person");
$fields["Address street"]->setValue("Teststreet 1");
$fields["Address city zip"]->setValue(12345);
$fields["diabetes"]->setValue(true);
$fields["diar"]->setValue(true);
// done
$document->save()->finish();
I have an html page that has a form for the user to fill out after conducting a list of tests.
Once they are done filling out the form they submit and it is entered into a database table.
Is it possible to have this information also exported into an excel file with a predefined template (containing charts, and graphs) that would be downloaded onto the user's computer upon submit?