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Generate xFDF in PHP
<?php
/*
KOIVI HTML Form to FDF Parser for PHP (C) 2004 Justin Koivisto
Version 1.1
Last Modified: 2010-02-17
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at
your option) any later version.
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public
License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
Full license agreement notice can be found in the LICENSE file contained
within this distribution package.
Justin Koivisto
justin.koivisto@gmail.com
http://koivi.com
*/
/**
* createXFDF
*
* Tales values passed via associative array and generates XFDF file format
* with that data for the pdf address sullpiled.
*
* @param string $file The pdf file - url or file path accepted
* @param array $info data to use in key/value pairs no more than 2 dimensions
* @param string $enc default UTF-8, match server output: default_charset in php.ini
* @return string The XFDF data for acrobat reader to use in the pdf form file
*/
function createXFDF($file,$info,$enc='UTF-8'){
$data='<?xml version="1.0" encoding="'.$enc.'"?>'."\n".
'<xfdf xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/" xml:space="preserve">'."\n".
'<fields>'."\n";
foreach($info as $field => $val){
$data.='<field name="'.$field.'">'."\n";
if(is_array($val)){
foreach($val as $opt)
$data.='<value>'.htmlentities($opt).'</value>'."\n";
}else{
$data.='<value>'.htmlentities($val).'</value>'."\n";
}
$data.='</field>'."\n";
}
$data.='</fields>'."\n".
'<ids original="'.md5($file).'" modified="'.time().'" />'."\n".
'<f href="'.$file.'" />'."\n".
'</xfdf>'."\n";
return $data;
}
?>
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