Re: can pdf forms be used to submit data into db?

* Thus wrote Chris Boget (chris@wild.net): > > Yes you can! > > 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? I've developed a system that uses fdf for a client just recently. Some of the fdf is a little overkill, but there are cases when the pdf forms are a scannable document that uses special fonts for a scanner to read. (much like the little box's you have to fill out for those silly sat tests.) To properly have the document print, they voted to use fdf/pdf's forms to have the user print their data out so it can be scanned. Curt -- "I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure."