I recently asked my web host to install "pdftk" on my our web server. pdftk is
a GNU
program for performing various manipulations on PDFs. In my case, I'm trying to
use an
online form to fill in a job application, which will then be mailed to Human
Resources on
our company.
The code I used is in the O'Reilly book "PDF Hacks," pg 200.
Is anyone familiar with using pdftk in this way? I'm trying to flatten the FDF
data
permanently onto a new PDF file. Here's my code:
First, a simple form:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type"
content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="generator" content="Adobe GoLive">
<title>agl:pagetitle</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="FormName" action="http://www.ourbiz.com/forms/jobs/
jobsPDF_FDF.php#FDF" method="post" name="FormName">
Name: <input type="text" name="name" size="24"><br>
Address: <input type="text" name="address"
size="50"><br>
Phone: <input type="text" name="phone" size="24"><br>
<input type="submit" name="Submit"
value="SUBMIT"><input
type="reset" value="RESET">
</form>
</body>
</html>
Then, the PHP file referred to in the form:
<?php
session_start();
header("Cache-control: private");
require_once('../forge_fdf.php');
// Get the user's input from the form
$name = $_POST['name'];
$address = $_POST['address'];
$phone = $_POST['phone'];
// Register session key with the value
$_SESSION['name'] = $name;
$_SESSION['address'] = $address;
$_SESSION['phone'] = $phone;
// session_fdf is your function for converting
// the user's session state into an FDF string
$fdf_ss= session_fdf( $_GET['id'] );
$temp_fn= tempnam( '/tmp', 'tempfdf' );
$temp_fp= fopen( $temp_fn, 'wb' );
if( $temp_fp ) {
fwrite( $temp_fp, $fdf_ss );
fclose( $temp_fp );
header( 'Content-type: application:pdf' );
passthru( '/usr/pdftk/bin/pdftk jobsPDF_FDF.pdf fill_form '.$temp_fn.'
output -
flatten' ); // output to stdout (-)
unlink( $temp_fn );
}
?>
Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong? I'm getting a message that a file
I/O
error has occurred.
Thanks,
Dale
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