Hi PicoPaco,
That could well be a PDF file - or the contents of it.
Sorry, I have no experience with this though I do believe that it is possible.
Bob
Hi PicoPaco & Bob,
I roughly recall this being a matter of FPDF not utilizing the Joomla framework for handling headers and text output. There is also the issue of preventing the template from being used, as this would obviously destroy the pdf file format by embedding it in a html-page (you could use the format=raw parameter in the submit-URL to tell Joomla to skip the template, but you still need to tell the browser what kind of document you are sending).
I did use FPDF in a CF-project a long time ago, and encountered some similar issues. In the end, I resorted to create a pdf-file on the server filesystem, and adding this file as an attachment to the response email / posting a link on the "thank you" page.
/Fredrik
Hi Fredrik and Bob,
Yes, the problem seems to be that I can't get rid of the <head> and <body> tags. Theres also a hidden input generated by CF. I want the PDF to get the data from the database, do you think its possible to do this without using chronoforms? When the user is finished filling out the form there will be a PDF-button, maybe I could just include a 'token' in the url to the php-file that generate the PDF? Any thoughts about this?
Thanks
Markus
Hi Markus,
Well, as I mentioned in my previous post, the simplest (though perhaps not the neatest) solution is to write the pdf document to a file on the server, and provide the user with a link to it on the thank-you page. This would be a "mere matter" of providing a path and filename to the Output() method of the fpdf object, and writing the appropriate html-tag on the thank-you page.
You could of course direct the form submission (form action URL) to a separate php-script that does all the magic, though this means Joomla and ChronoForms never sees the data at all...
/Fredrik
Hi Fredrik,
Thanks for the reply. What I want is to store the data form the cf in the database. When the data is stored I want the users to be able to download the posts in PDF-format. The best would be if the PDF is generated when the user clicks the link so that the server won't be filled up with PDF-documents.
I have succeeded to get out some data to the pdf by doing a db-select in the FPDF-file and refer the cf_uid which is in the url in the link (The PDF-generating thing is outside of Joomla and CF). But it seems like quite much work to get it to look the way I want it to. Isn't it as much work to generate a file to the server?
Thanks
Markus
Hi Markus,
Increasing number of files could be a problem (without some cleanup mechanism).
You could use an external php-script, which completely circumveins the issues with Joomla templates - though you will have issues using the Joomla api. This would also make it quite easy for users to check other submissions by testing different cf_uids in the URL link.
With CFv3, there is the custom Extra codes you could use, along with the format=raw option earlier mentioned. This would allow you to run custom code without having the output being damaged by an templates or such. You would also have full access to the Joomla api, as well as the current user session - meaning we could make sure the user can't request any other users's data.
I'm not that familiar with CFv4 to tell if and how you could do the same here.
/Fredrik