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  • John
    #1

    Messy form solution

    My web-form process input and sends it to me as mail. Fine. But I also would
    love to have this input put onto a PDF-document which will be generated on
    the fly during post. The PDF will be saved on my server AND mailed to
    myself.
    I thought that maybe it is possible to get the posted form input on a
    csv-file on my web-server (I don't have MySQL). And then, during the process
    get this csv data reorganised and to appear organised on a already nearly
    finished PDF with prefixed header and footer. The document is mailed to me
    and visible in the user window.
    I have not invented the power and have to ask: is this possible, anyone who
    knows if such a funcationality already exist?


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    • strawberry
      #2
      Re: Messy form solution

      If you haven't already, have a look at www.fpdf.org. I don't see why a
      script couldn't accomplish both tasks at the same time.

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        • Andy Jeffries
          #3
          Re: Messy form solution

          On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:03:11 +0200, John wrote:[color=blue]
          > My web-form process input and sends it to me as mail. Fine. But I also
          > would love to have this input put onto a PDF-document which will be
          > generated on the fly during post. The PDF will be saved on my server AND
          > mailed to myself.[/color]

          Fine.
          [color=blue]
          > I thought that maybe it is possible to get the posted form input on a
          > csv-file on my web-server (I don't have MySQL).[/color]

          Just remember to lock access to the file, you don't want two simultaneous
          requests clobbering the file.
          [color=blue]
          > And then, during the
          > process get this csv data reorganised and to appear organised on a already
          > nearly finished PDF with prefixed header and footer. The document is
          > mailed to me and visible in the user window.[/color]

          Look in to FPDI: http://fpdi.setasign.de/

          That imports an existing PDF in to an FPDF object ready to add new
          elements.
          [color=blue]
          > I have not invented the power and have to ask: is this possible, anyone
          > who knows if such a funcationality already exist?[/color]

          It's possible using many ways of creating PDFs from PHP. Personally I've
          been a fan of PDF4PHP, but you can't import your "nearly finished PDF" in
          to that, so if I were you I'd look into FPDI.

          Cheers,


          Andy


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