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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Is there a way that I can have a form that submits (via POST) a form element to a PHP script on my server... then have the PHP script re-encode the data and send to another server, as if it came from an HTML form?
I basically need to intercept one of my forms that users will use, so that I can record data (which are lists, nothing confidential or personal information) that the user selects in the first form, then it will be processed by my PHP script, but then I want it to be re-encoded as if it was coming directly from the original HTML form (as I have to submit some hidden fields to the final destination server after my PHP script works with the POSTed form data.
How can this be done? and if someone could give a simple example, I'd appreciate it. Thanks
I'm trying to import some XML data into XFA form through web server.
So, I have a HTML form which user populate, that data is stored in MySQL database. On other side I have an XFA form created in LiveCycle and wrapped in PDF, when user finish populating online form I need to place user's data in the XFA form and trigger the print it.
How can I do this? So far I had success using FPDM for real PDF form. Can I somehow convert XFA to real PDF form? Will I be able to print the PDF file through browser automatically when user clicks the button?
This is what I found, but it's too expensive to buy a licence:
http://itextpdf.com/product/xfa_worker
I'm struggling with this one for a while, any help is welcoming.
Thanks in advance,
VUkasin
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.
If i have a website running php and apache, what do i need to be able to attach a scanner to it? How do i get the scanner to fill in a value on one of the webforms on my page?
I just did this for an application. It's actually simple. The scanner is just another input method and is, in fact, similar to a keyboard. When you scan the barcode the data is decoded by the scanner and sent to whatever application is waiting to receive it. In the case of a web-based application it would be a form, most likely with a textarea with focus. The data would then populate the textarea just as if someone had typed the barcode's data into it. The form is then submitted and processed normally.
Just make sure the textarea has focus or else the data will go either nowhere or to wherever focus is (which may be another form field or the address bar).
I have yet to figure how how to get the form to auto-submit upon the entry of the barcode data as the scanner does not send event information (i.e. submit) and special characters such as tab (\t) do not seem to work. (If anyone knows how to accomplish this I am very interested in knowing how it can be done).
For actually creating barcodes in PHP, you might want to have a look at:
http://www.mribti.com/barcode/
http://www.ashberg.de/php-barcode/
Usually, these scanners are equivalent to a keyboard input, so you just select the appropriate input point on the web page, scan, and then submit the form.
WASP makes a line of barcode scanners that simply plug into USB or PS/2 inputs and basically convert the barcode scanned into the characters, just like a user typed them using a keyboard. They have an FAQ and help videos that may be of assistance, too.
When designing your web app, depending on how users interact with it, you can use Javascript to move focus from one field to another so that a user can scan barcodes sequentially without having to click on the field where the characters go. (Similar to how some forms move focus as you type data with a known length, such as a zip code or phone number.)
You can try this:
I think this is the best way to integrate barcode in web application
using php.
integrating barcode scanner into php application?
I hope this link is usefull to all.
Using an autofucus input is the better way. You just have to make sure that you create a for and add autofocus to the input box. So each time a user scans any item, the form is automatically submitted. So just give the form an id and handle the data easily with jquery