Support for PDF Forms ready, but....

From: Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 11:41:14 +0000
Subject: Support for PDF Forms ready, but....
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Hi everybody, I have started on PDF Forms support for PHP3. It is based on the FDF ToolKit 2.0 from Adobe (http://beta1.adobe.com/ada/acrosdk/forms.html) What started out as another module finaly ended in modification of function/post.c and introducing a new Variable which I called HTTP_POST_DATA. I don't dare to commit the changes to the main source tree, and like to hear some comments. Here is what the modules does and what I did to the source. PDF may have forms included. The mechanism is similar to HTML forms but the data send to the server has the content-type application/vnd.fdf and the data itself is in fdf format. The request method is POST. 1. Problem PHP3 doesn't recognize the content type, so I made it aware of it. 2. Problem The fdf format cannot be processed by PHP3. Making HTTP_POST_VARS from it doesn't work, so I introduced a new variable name HTTP_POST_DATA which contains the unprocessed post data. The intergration of the module itself is fairly easy except for some small problems due to my inexperience. One of them is: The FDF Tookit requires on Unix systems to call FDFInitialize() and FDFFinalize() before and after any other functions from the toolkit can be called. Are the functions which are called when the module is loaded and unloaded the proper place to do that? Could somebody advise me how to proceed. Uwe -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net

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