This library is a complete rewrite for php> = 7.1 of script93 developed by Olivier, with additional features:

• Supports linearized PDF forms
• Supports multi-pages PDF forms
• Supports PDF 'radio', 'check box' and 'choice' fields in addition to 'text' fields
• UTF-8 support

With this library, you can merge (inject) data into a PDF form (AcroForm), either from a PHP array, or from a FDF file.

Dependency

• PDFtk Server

Installation

composer require eureka2/acroforms

Usage

• With a PHP array:

<?php

require_once 'path/to/src/autoload.php';

use acroforms\AcroForm;

$fields = [
    'text' => [ // text fields 
        'text_field1'    => 'value of text_field1',
        'text_field2'    => 'value of text_field2',
        ......
    ],
    'button' => [ // button fields
        'radio1' => 'value of radio1',
        'checkbox1' => 'value of checkbox1',
        ........
    ]
];

$pdf = new AcroForm('exemple.pdf', [
    'pdftk' => '/absolute/path/to/pdftk'
]);
$pdf->load($fields)->merge();
if (php_sapi_name() == 'cli') {
	file_put_contents("filled.pdf", $pdf->output('S'));
} else {
	$pdf->output('I', 'filled.pdf');
}
?>

• With a pre-filled FDF file:

<?php

require_once 'path/to/src/autoload.php';

use acroforms\AcroForm;

$pdf = new AcroForm('example.pdf', [
    'fdf' => 'example.fdf',
    'pdftk' => '/absolute/path/to/pdftk'
]);
$pdf->merge();
if (php_sapi_name() == 'cli') {
    $pdf->output('F', 'filled.pdf');
} else {
    $pdf->output('I', 'filled.pdf');
    // or $pdf->output('D', 'filled.pdf');
}
?>

Methods

Name	Arguments	Description
allow	1. permissions : array (optional)	Allow permissions
compress		use the compress filter to restore compression
encrypt	1. bits : int (0, 40,or 128)	define encrytion to the given bits
fix		try to fix a corrupted PDF file
flatten		flatten output to remove form from pdf file keeping field datas
getButtonFields		Retrieve fields that are buttons
getField	1. fieldName	Retrieve a form field by its name
getTextFields		Retrieve fields that are text type
info		Retrieve information from the pdf
load	1. data : array or string	load a form data to be merged
merge	1. flatten : bool (optional)	Merge the data with the PDF file
password	1. type : string ('owner' or 'user') 2. code : string (password code)	define a password code
setMode	1. mode : string 2. value : bool	set a mode
setSupport	1. support : string (native or pdftk)	change the support
uncompress		apply the uncompress filter
output	1. destination : char (I, D, F or S) 2. name : string (PDF file name)	output PDF to some destination

Copyright and license

© 2019 Eureka2 - Jacques Archimède. Code released under the MIT license.