coding problems converting asp to php

[Anon]

HI, i'm a programmer (not in php though....so i guess a not so good programmer?) any way.... i got a contract with company "X" who is hosted by company "Z" and while i was constructing my application "Z" ensured me that they will install the FDF toolkit, it took 3 months for them to he-and-haw about it and then decide "No". I was searching for alternatives when i found this link:
http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?[e-mail]3g3mGU^2@.ef5c96c#

which led me to this link:
http://www.laundrymat.tv/pdf/

I know very little about php and my application in is asp/vb, i don't know how i could incorporate the php here: http://www.laundrymat.tv/pdf/ to work with my application. I BEG upon someone to help me. Someone once sent me a trinket in the mail for helping them, maybe i could do the same for the one who helps me, as a token of "thankyou". My application is small but it deals with populating pdf forms from an access database.

this is my code it is of two different asp pages, one called pdf.asp the other pdfexec.asp
*pdf.asp
<%@ Language=VBScript %>
<%
Response.Buffer = true
data_source = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Data Source=" & Server.MapPath("part1.mdb")
%>
<form method="post" action="pdfexec.asp">
<select size="1" name="appid">
<option value="select">...Applicant ID...</option>
<%
Set RSA = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
RSA.Open "SELECT FROM appData", data_source

While Not RSA.EOF
%>
<option value="<%= RSA("appid") %>"><%= RSA("appid") %></option>
<%
RSA.MoveNext
Wend
RSA.Close
Set RSA = Nothing
%>
</select>
<p><select size="1" name="pdffile">
<option selected value="0">select a form</option>
<option value="pdf1.pdf">pdf1</option>
<option value="pdf2.pdf">pdf2</option>
<option value="pdf3.pdf">pdf3</option>
<option value="pdf4.pdf">pdf4</option>
<option value="pdf5.pdf">pdf5</option>
<option value="pdf6.pdf">pdf6</option>
<option value="pdf7.pdf">pdf7</option>
<option value="pdf8.pdf">pdf8</option>
<option value="pdf9.pdf">pdf9</option>
<option value="pdf10.pdf">pdf10</option>
</select></p>
<p>
<input type="submit" value="Select">
</p>
</form>

**pdfexec.asp**
<%@ Language=VBScript %>
<%
Response.Buffer = true
data_source = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Data Source=" & Server.MapPath("part1.mdb")

appid = Request("appid")
pdffile = Request("pdffile")

Set rsm = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
rsm.Open "select * from appData where ( appid = " & appid & " )", data_source
FirstName = Trim(rsm("fname"))
MiddleName = Trim(rsm("mname"))
LastName = Trim(rsm("lname"))
rsm.Close
Set rsm = Nothing

Dim FdfAcX As FDFACXLib.FdfApp
Set FdfAcx = Server.CreateObject("FdfApp.FdfApp")
Set myFdf = FdfAcx.FDFCreate

myFdf.fdfsetvalue "FirstName", FirstName, false
myFdf.fdfsetvalue "MI", MiddleName, false
myFdf.fdfsetvalue "LastName", LastName, false

myFDF.fdfSetFile "http://www.company.com" & pdfile
Response.ContentType = "text/html"

myfdf.fdfclose
FdfAcx.Close
set FdfAcx = Nothing
set myfdf = Nothing

appIDRS.Close
Set appIDRS = Nothing
appIDConnectionObject.Close
Set appIDConnectionObject = Nothing
%>

[Anon]

ok, i've calmed down....
i searched this GREAT site and found certain tranlations from as to php, i've put together what i think is a great start could someone help me with my corrections? this is what i have:

$conn=odbc_connect("table","username","password");
or die("problems in query execution<BR>$query");

$result = mysql_query("SELECT DISTINCT fieldname from tablename", $db);
print '<select name=appID>';
while ($myrow=mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
printf('<option value="%s">%s', $myrow["appID"], $myrow["appID"]);
}
print '</select>;

$dbc = new COM("ADODB.Connection");
$connstr = "DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};";
$connstr .= "DBQ=".$D."part1.mdb";

$dbc->open($connstr);
$rs = $dbc->execute("SELECT * FROM appData");
while(!$rs->eof()) {
print $rs->fields['appId']->value();
print " | ".$rs->fields['Name']->value()."";
print " | ".$rs->fields['Price']->value()."";
$rs->movenext();
}

$url="http://some_url.com/form.pdf";

$values=$HTTP_POST_VARS;

$fdfdata = "%FDF-1.2\n%’“¦²\n";
$fdfdata .= "1 0 obj \n<< /FDF ";
$fdfdata .= "<< /Fields [\n";

//loop that adds the field names and values
foreach($values as $key=>$val)
{
$fdfdata.="<< /V ($val)/T ($key) >> ";
}

$fdfdata .= "]\n";
$fdfdata .= "/F ($url) >>";
$fdfdata .= ">>\nendobj\ntrailer\n<<\n/Root 1 0 R\n>>\n";
$fdfdata .= "%%EOF";

header ("Content-Type: application/vnd.fdf");
print $fdfdata;

$appIDrs->close();
$Set appIDrs = Nothing;
$dbc->close();
?>