How to merge fields with document template?

[djleon]

I am looking for something that works like this:

http://www.electriclawyer.com/express/details.html

What I need to do is that: When a user submits an online form, the fields will then be merged into a document template and then send as a MS Word attachment (rtf) to the user.

I have contacted the above website for more details but I am not getting any response from them (it's been a while). And I don't mind paying for the script if it's reasonably priced.

Can anyone recommend me where else can I find a script to do such a task?

Any guides will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Leon
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[tsinka]

Hi,

if the number of values to be inserted into that RTF document are fixed you could do the following:

1. Create a RTF document that just contains the text and some variables like

Dear $NAME$,

thanks for your order.

The order id is $OID$

....

Then put that rtf document somewhere on the server to be used as template.

When a user submits the form load the contents of that RTF file into a PHP variable, replace $OID$ by the order id $NAME$ by the name (and so on) and then write the data into a new RTF file or do whatever you want with it.

I did that some weeks ago and it worked fine in my case.

Thomas