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- Bio
mornin gizzles.
Bio's work related question:
aight, so the sys admin is wanting to have a form online that our salesreps can fill out and then submit. the submissions would be basically for print only.i told him that i was a designer and not much of a scriptmonkey, but i told him the only way i knew of to do this is with some sort of scripting. what do you think?
my suggestion is to just use acrobat with the blank form, fill it out, and then email it back to the main office for print.
anyone know about the scripting? what would it take to have those fields fill-out-able.
many thanks, freaklets. =)
- Bio0
i know some of you cats know how to make forms like this.
just a quick answer is fine. no need to explain yourself. just a "yep. php will do it" or whatever.
- ave0
I've never worked with dynamically generated pdfs before. But you could insert the information into a nice printable html layout, or even better a nice printer friendly vector based flash layout, or have the information sent as an email to be prinited. Don't know about doing it with pdfs myself.
- ave0
yep, php, direct email would be nice, no need for databases. The sales guy clicks submit then php sends the info to whoever for printing.
- Bio0
thanks ave!
anyone else care to give some input.
i dont know anything about php or pulling info from databases, so you can talk in baby terms if you like. hehe.
- zanetate0
If the form just needs to email the content to be printed, you can actually do that in straight html. You just have to set the enctype of the form. I think it's something like:
ENCTYPE="text/plain"
It wouldn't be pretty but it would work. I'd probably code it to go into a db though. Then you could fire off emailed reports that were formatted as you wanted. Can't help ya much with the PHP though - I write ASP. Should be some good tutorials online... maybe here: http://sourceforge.net/
- Bio0
thanks zanetate.
i will probably copy and paste these replies in an email to the sys admin, so if you have any more ideas, please fire them away!
- zanetate0
A better list of PHP tutorials:
- Bio0
sweet. thanks again man.
- zanetate0
No problem Bio.
- ave0
check your mail...
- mayo0
depending on the type of data the reps are submitting, you can also just make the pdf a fillable form in Acrobat. eh, what do i know, i'm just a print person.
- gravityroom0
If you can - I'd keep it simple... Blow off the PDF thing. Just get formmail.pl (its easy to find but tell me if you need a link)
Send the HTML form as a text email. PDF's are great , but it doens't sound like you really need them.