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[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.

[Anon]

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();
?>

[Anon]

I didn't actually read your code, but I have a suggestion. If you are trying to generate pdf files through PHP, you might take a look at this class:

http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf/

craig

[Anon]

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