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gravitycedar
gravitycedar

Reputation: 77

The best pratice to parse PDF forms fields with PHP5

I have PDFs with filled out form fields from a customer, which have to be parsed with PHP5 and written into a MySQL-DB.

With Google I only find libraries, like Zend_Pdf, which are helpful for creating or manipulating PDFs but not for parsing for form fields. Do you know any libraries or classes for this task?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 7421

Answers (3)

tertek
tertek

Reputation: 1002

EDIT: The originaly posted solution only returns all form fields, without their filled values. To retrieve field values the approach of @max-matti in the comments can be used.

This solution works without any additional dependencies/requirements:

Use the FPDM class: https://github.com/codeshell/fpdm.

Then define your own class that extends FPDM and retrieves the protected value_entries after calling merge() on your PDF file.

Your class:

use \FPDM;

class FPDMHelper extends FPDM {
    public function getFormFields() {
        $this->merge();
        return $this->value_entries;
    }
}

And call it like this:

$pathToYourFile = __DIR__.'\your-file.pdf';

$pdf = new FPDMHelper($pathToYourFile);

$formFields = $pdf->getFormFields();
print_r($formFields);

Upvotes: 0

Peter B
Peter B

Reputation: 196

Take a look at this project on github... php-pdftk I was looking for the same thing and found this project which appears to provide a nice wrapper to pdftk for use in PHP.

Upvotes: 1

rogeriopvl
rogeriopvl

Reputation: 54056

Check out Pdftk. It allows you to manipulate PDF files in many ways.

Upvotes: 2

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