Abode Forms and PHP Script

[Syl]

I have a simple test html form at http://www.radiosport.ca/test/test.html

It use the POST method to send a name to a php script that prints the input
data in the $_POST array and from the raw input data

<?php $data = $_POST['name']; print "\$_POST: $data"; $data =
file_get_contents("php://input"); print "Raw Input: $data"; ?>

And I have a test pdf form that uses a HTTP Submit button - it also calls
the php script http://www.radiosport.ca/test/test.pdf

Using 'Robert' as the test name the output from the test html form is

$_POST: Robert
Raw Input: name=Robert

The Output from the test pdf form is

$_POST:
Raw Input:
%00f%00o%00r%00m%001%00%5b%000%00%5d%00.%00%23%00s %00u%00b%00f%00o%00r%00m%0
0%5b%000%00%5d%00.%00n%00a%00m%00e%00%5b%000%00%5d =%00R%00o%00b%00e%00r%00t

I thought the Adobe Form was suppose to send standard URL-encoded data using
the POST method the same as the html form.

Where have I made my mistake?
Can someone point me to a PHP script that processes a pdf form?

[Justin Koivisto]

Syl wrote:

I have a simple test html form at http://www.radiosport.ca/test/test.html

It use the POST method to send a name to a php script that prints the input
data in the $_POST array and from the raw input data

<?php $data = $_POST['name']; print "\$_POST: $data"; $data =
file_get_contents("php://input"); print "Raw Input: $data"; ?>

And I have a test pdf form that uses a HTTP Submit button - it also calls
the php script http://www.radiosport.ca/test/test.pdf

Using 'Robert' as the test name the output from the test html form is

$_POST: Robert
Raw Input: name=Robert

The Output from the test pdf form is

$_POST:
Raw Input:
%00f%00o%00r%00m%001%00%5b%000%00%5d%00.%00%23%00s %00u%00b%00f%00o%00r%00m%0
0%5b%000%00%5d%00.%00n%00a%00m%00e%00%5b%000%00%5d =%00R%00o%00b%00e%00r%00t

I thought the Adobe Form was suppose to send standard URL-encoded data using
the POST method the same as the html form.
It depends on the options you chose for the submit button...
Where have I made my mistake?
Can someone point me to a PHP script that processes a pdf form?

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[Jim Michaels]

what you are going to get from $_POST is PHP's serialized string version of
an array. $_POST is an array. if you read between the %00's, it reads as
follows:

form1[0].#subform[0].name[0]=Robert

(and BTW, POST is just all the form data serialized from the browser thru
HTTP and read into STDIN in C - like typing at the keyboard almost)

"Syl" <jk***@sk.sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:11*************@corp.supernews.com...

I have a simple test html form at http://www.radiosport.ca/test/test.html

It use the POST method to send a name to a php script that prints the
input
data in the $_POST array and from the raw input data

<?php $data = $_POST['name']; print "\$_POST: $data"; $data =
file_get_contents("php://input"); print "Raw Input: $data"; ?>

And I have a test pdf form that uses a HTTP Submit button - it also calls
the php script http://www.radiosport.ca/test/test.pdf

Using 'Robert' as the test name the output from the test html form is

$_POST: Robert
Raw Input: name=Robert

The Output from the test pdf form is

$_POST:
Raw Input:
%00f%00o%00r%00m%001%00%5b%000%00%5d%00.%00%23%00s %00u%00b%00f%00o%00r%00m%0
0%5b%000%00%5d%00.%00n%00a%00m%00e%00%5b%000%00%5d =%00R%00o%00b%00e%00r%00t

I thought the Adobe Form was suppose to send standard URL-encoded data
using
the POST method the same as the html form.

Where have I made my mistake?
Can someone point me to a PHP script that processes a pdf form?

[Justin Koivisto]

[top posting fixed]

Jim Michaels wrote:

"Syl" <jk***@sk.sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:11*************@corp.supernews.com...

I have a simple test html form at http://www.radiosport.ca/test/test.html

It use the POST method to send a name to a php script that prints the
input
data in the $_POST array and from the raw input data

<?php $data = $_POST['name']; print "\$_POST: $data"; $data =
file_get_contents("php://input"); print "Raw Input: $data"; ?>

And I have a test pdf form that uses a HTTP Submit button - it also calls
the php script http://www.radiosport.ca/test/test.pdf

Using 'Robert' as the test name the output from the test html form is

$_POST: Robert
Raw Input: name=Robert

The Output from the test pdf form is

$_POST:
Raw Input:
%00f%00o%00r%00m%001%00%5b%000%00%5d%00.%00%23%00s %00u%00b%00f%00o%00r%00m%0
0%5b%000%00%5d%00.%00n%00a%00m%00e%00%5b%000%00%5d =%00R%00o%00b%00e%00r%00t

I thought the Adobe Form was suppose to send standard URL-encoded data
using
the POST method the same as the html form.

Where have I made my mistake?
Can someone point me to a PHP script that processes a pdf form?

what you are going to get from $_POST is PHP's serialized string version of
an array. $_POST is an array. if you read between the %00's, it reads as
follows:

form1[0].#subform[0].name[0]=Robert

(and BTW, POST is just all the form data serialized from the browser thru
HTTP and read into STDIN in C - like typing at the keyboard almost)

Sure doesn't look like a serialized array to me, and if that is the
posted data, then php doesn't have anything to do with it...

However, if you use the following, you can come up with what was found
above:

echo rawurldecode(str_replace('%00','',($post)));

Simply using rawurldecode produces what looks like a binary string. Was
this PDF made using Adobe Designer?

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Justin Koivisto, ZCE - ju****@koivi.com
http://koivi.com