How to create editable Pdf form in php
mpdf, pdf, php
Solution
Need to give my own answer, as @Christian gave almost correct and working URL of an example and I found this on Github for active forms but when I tried my html form with it, then it gives me error something like,
Fatal error: Call to undefined method mPDF::Error() .... mpdf\classes\mpdfform.php on line 839
After some searching I found that there is missing `name` attribute in the form's text field and when I added the attribute it worked well.
<input type="text" id="name" value="name" name="field_name" />
The problem not ends with this, when I submit the form then there is nothing shown in browser's console. Then I used php://input at server side and it has shown me some response, which is in FDF(forms data format) and needs to be parse to get the actual data. I din't give a try to parse it but found some useful URLS which I am sharing here,
PHP: Extract fdf fields as an array from a PDF
https://answers.acrobatusers.com/Parse-FDF-response-q72665.aspx
PHP regex code to extract FDF data
http://php.net/manual/en/ref.fdf.php
links below
Problem
I have a simple form and I want to make it editable in pdf using php. But the pdf is creating the form but I can't edit and submit it, any reason or I can't edit pdf using php? My code is ``` <?php define('_MPDF_PATH','/'); include("mpdf.php"); $html = ' <form action="test.php"> <input type="text" id="name" value="name" /> <input type="reset" name="reset" value="Reset" /> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" /> </form>'; $mpdf=new mPDF('c'); $mpdf->default_lineheight_correction = 1.2; // LOAD a stylesheet $stylesheet = file_get_contents('mpdfstyletables.css'); $mpdf->WriteHTML($stylesheet,1); // The parameter 1 tells that this is css/style only and no body/html/text $mpdf->SetColumns(2,'J'); $mpdf->WriteHTML($html); $mpdf->Output('test.pdf','D');// exit; ?> ``` I'm using mPDF Example Url and Form Example