Re: Messy form solution

On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:03:11 +0200, John wrote:
> 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.

Fine.

> 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).

Just remember to lock access to the file, you don't want two simultaneous
requests clobbering the file.

> 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.

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

That imports an existing PDF in to an FPDF object ready to add new
elements.

> I have not invented the power and have to ask: is this possible, anyone
> who knows if such a funcationality already exist?

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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