{"id":1565,"date":"2018-01-19T19:22:59","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T19:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goofy-trucks.flywheelsites.com\/fdf-support-in-php\/"},"modified":"2018-01-19T19:24:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T19:24:53","slug":"fdf-support-in-php","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phpbuilder.com\/fdf-support-in-php\/","title":{"rendered":"FDF Support in PHP"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Uwe Steinmann<\/div>\n
on November 16, 2000<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Motivation<\/h2>\n
\nInteraction on the WWW often means filling out forms, hitting the submit
\nbutton and getting a certain result. HTML and HTTP provide a mechanism to perform
\nthis quite easily through forms. PHP has support for this
\nmechanism in a very convenient way. The
\nvalues of each input field are stored in PHP variables, with the same
\nname as the input field.<\/div>\n
\nA mechanism quite similar has been developed by
\nAdobe<\/a>, but for PDF documents. They simply
\ncall it Acrobat Forms. From the users point of view, the only difference in HTML
\nforms and Acrobat forms is their appearance. The first one
\nuses HTML documents, while the second one uses PDF documents to present
\nthe form.<\/div>\n
\nFor developers of web interfaces, Acrobat Forms can be handled
\nlike HTML forms, if the form provides its input data as HTML forms. However, Adobe
\nhas introduced a new format for form data called FDF (Form Data Format).
\nPHP already includes support for this format.<\/div>\n
\nThe possibility to
\npopulate a PDF document with data, e.g. to customize it, is an additional feature of Acrobat Forms. .
\nUsing PDF documents as forms and populating PDF documents with
\ndata using PHP will be described in this article. Two examples demonstrate
\nhow easy it is.<\/div>\n
\nBefore you start trying the online examples in this article
\nyou should install the
\nAcrobat Reader Plug-in or use Acrobat 4. If you want to test the PHP scripts
\non your own web server you will also need to install the
\nFDF Toolkit<\/a> and
\nenable FDF support in PHP. Finally, if you want to develop your own PDF forms
\nyou will need Acrobat Exchange 3.x or Acrobat 4.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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