[PHP] has anyone seen this done?
hi guys and gals, i know this is possible with php, but have been wracking my brain trying to figure this out, in any case, i am just a beginning php programmer, but what i want to do is...when a link is clicked, i need to be able to pull some text from a static html page and dynamically create a new window in which to display a specific block of text...can this be done and has anyone seen something like this implemented... Mahalo from Hawaii... ryan -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] OT - my apologies
Aloha all, I just wanted to apologize for some of the "Out of Office" alerts some of you may have gotten from me yesterday. I had thought I had disabled the function, but it did not work. In any case, I hope that it wasn't too much of a nuisance to you all. Mahalo for your understanding, Ryan -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] can pdf forms be used to submit data into db?
hi guys and gals, aloha from hawaii, Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but i just need to know if it is technically possible to have a pdf form be filled out online and then once the user hits submit, php takes the data and puts it into a db or some sort of db technology and if the need arises to pull up that record once more, php fetches the data from the db and dynamically fills out the pdf form and presents it to the end user...can do? or anyone know who i can talk to about this... thanks and mahalo from hawaii if anyone can help me or point me in the right direction, i MAY be inclined to send some macadamia nuts to the continental US -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] can pdf forms be used to submit data into a db?
hi guys and gals, aloha from hawaii, Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but i just need to know if it is technically possible to have a pdf form be filled out online and then once the user hits submit, php takes the data and puts it into a db or some sort of db technology and if the need arises to pull up that record once more, php fetches the data from the db and dynamically fills out the pdf form and presents it to the end user...can do? or anyone know who i can talk to about this... thanks and mahalo from hawaii if anyone can help me or point me in the right direction, i MAY be inclined to send some macadamia nuts to the continental US -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Thank You for your help
Hi guys, gals, first off i just wanted to thank all of you who responded to my question, they were very helpful...but the answers bring me to several new questions: 1) has anyone seen anything like this done with the reader ver. of acrobat and not the full version of acrobat...could you point me somewhere where FDF is actually implemented? 2) this question is more directed to Justin French, but in any case, the reason i wanted to use the PDF forms is so that i don't have to create them again in CSS or any other format, the forms are already created and all i need to do is figure out how to make the data that people enter into them "submittable." but in any case, have you seen some pretty complex forms made up of entirely CSS that i can look at? i guess this solution would be acceptable pending some examples 3) now who do i send the nuts to? but actually before i do that, i wanted to see something like FDF in action to see if this is exactly what i needed thanks, ryan -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] can pdf forms be used to submit data into db?
John, that is EXACTLY what i want, now the question is...have you seen this implemented somewhere? so php would pass the data to a database and when a user/client wants to see that data again, php would "re-generate" the form with the data that is being requested right? and that is what FDF can do...correct? but help me out here and tell me where i can see some sort of implementation and how hard would something like this be ryan |-+> | | "John W. Holmes" | | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | rter.net>| | || | | 08/27/2003 12:12 | | | PM | | | Please respond to| | | holmes072000 | | || |-+> >-| | | | To: Chris Boget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | cc: Cesar Cordovez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Subject: Re: [PHP] can pdf forms be used to submit data into db? | >-| Chris Boget wrote: >>All the information is on www.php.net/fdf. > > I just read the above page and I can't for the life of me figure out > why anyone would want to do this. Of course, it's likely that I am > simply being myopic. > Would anyone who's actually used fdf enlighten as to the need to > do it this way? PDF forms offer a lot more formatting capabilities than HTML forms. This is sometimes needed to exactly reproduce forms for you business (especially with goverment/army forms). You can also email the forms around easier than an HTML form and the user can't modify it at all. Finally, you can have the actual form submitted along with the user data (will be present in RAW_POST_DATA, IIRC), so you can save the form along with the data in the database and then present it back to the user whenever you want. -- ---John Holmes... Amazon Wishlist: www.amazon.com/o/registry/3BEXC84AB3A5E/ php|architect: The Magazine for PHP Professionals ? www.phparch.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
