PDF Form, fill out and send results to database
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- Maria Dacus
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I have recently acquired the adobe acrobat professional software. I attempted to create a pdf form and place it on my site. It didn't reallly work the way I want it - the biggest problem being where to send and store the submitted data.
Does anyone know of a way to do this with joomla and possibly to store the data in the database rather than on a computer? or atleast to have the form sent to an email address through the site email rather than through the user's email client?
Any help/suggestions regarding this would be a big help. - When solved, please modify your original post and add (SOLVED) into the subject AND change your icon to the green check. This helps people know they can find a solution in your post if they have the same problem.
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- JEM
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Why not use a 3rd party component that will store the info in the Joomla DB, (which can be downloaded and imported to a .cvs or Excel file) send thank you mails to the respondent, send a notification to the administrator, and automatically redirect the user back to any page you specify?
For example, RSForm and RSForm Pro do all this and more...
(BTW, I have Adobe Arcobat Pro myself, but for the above mentioned reasons, I think a form component is much better / easier.) - Thanks,
jim
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- Maria Dacus
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- I use Fabrik now which I really like, but I'm not a good enough programmer with php to really get the custom look I/they want. Plus, I'd like to have a "pretty" format for them to receive the information in.
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- Tyndie
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Not sure if this is of any use to you, but Adobe Acrobat has built in functionality for distributing forms and collating returned data into an excel spreadsheet.
skitch.com/tyndie/dp8si/desktop
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