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
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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.
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