Create PDF file and than upload it

[shivom]

I have simple form. The form contains two textbox. I want to convert it into pdf file and upload it to my server. Suppose whatever user has enter in that 2 textbox and when they click submit. The content will be written in pdf file and upload it to my server.

Any idea regarding it?

Thanks

[bpat1434]

You could utilize the Zend Framework's PDF library to create, modify and save PDFs. Otherwise there is a PECL extension called [man]pdf[/man] which will let you do the same thing.

As for uploading it, if you're doing this on your server, where do you need to upload it to? Or do you mean download it? So after a user submits the form, they get a PDF back? Or after they submit the form, the PDF is stored elsewhere.

Storing it elsewhere can be done in one of a few ways. There's [man]ftp[/man] functions that you can use, or you can use rsync or scp if you have ssh access to both servers. And you could even use mv or cp if you're on your own dedicated server.

Sending the document back to the user is simple enough. When you're ready to send it back, make sure that you haven't sent content yet and set the Content-Type header, then just echo out the pdf string.

<?php

// After processing ...
if(!headers_sent())
{
    header('Content-Type: application/pdf');
    echo $myPDFcontents;
    exit;
}

// Some error stuff
echo 'We tried to send you the pdf, but the headers were already sent?';

Hope that helps.

[shivom]

i didnot understand my ur comments.....do you have a sample code which works something like that?

i have created a link call <a href='pdf.php?id=3'>create pdf</a>

once the user click on it it will create the pdf of whatever content is there in pdf.php?id=3 file.