HOW TO WRITE A PROGRAM application form data should be stored in pdf in database

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How to write a program when a customer fills up the application form in the website and after submission. The data should be stored in data base in pdf file, and that file should be editable when we want do any corrections later,


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Wow its very general question, there is a lot programing languages that can do the work.
I suggest you to learn PHP and MySQL to make it work on server side with DB's..

Or just pay some one on oDesk or Elance, its a 1-3 hours job

i am asking the application form will be in pdf format in website

Yeah that'll make it tougher for just about everyone who doesn't already know how to do it...

Here's what I did- maybe this can be implemented on a server but idk: I made an html file containing my info, then I used the tool from TwoPilots, it's an html -> pdf converter that can be accessed via command line.

If anyone can figure out how to store a pdf file in a database I'd like to hear that myself. If you're doing my method you could actually store the html contents in the mysql database and then, when accessed, run it through the TwoPilots program.

You can store binary data in a database. I've done this with images. I wouldn't recommend it as it takes up too much space.

As suggested above... Create an HTML form to collect the info. Store it in a database (mysql or ms sql). When a PDF file is requested, get the data from the db and create the pdf file for the user.

Outline the requirements and post an Odesk job. Be as specific as possible.

GL

I second Topher's comment. There's no good reason I can think of to create the pdf file initially and store it in the database. You're going to have even more trouble trying to update it. If you store the relevant information in the database, then you can update it as needed with a web form and generate a pdf on the fly when you need that.

I think that change in operation would take it from an expensive pain to a reasonable task.

If you're anticipating high loads where you don't want the processor overhead to keep generating pdfs to view, then you could generate a pdf file on update, store that as a file and store the link to the file in the database. Then when you update the data in the database you can create a new pdf with said information. You can store the pdfs in the database, but I believe that would be more overhead than you want if you're having these kinds of overhead issues. Just make sure to turn of robots/browsing/etc and make your pdf names complex enough that people can't guess and get at other peoples info (if that would be a problem)

Brother can i get the command lines or any guidelines for more
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NTG98 said:

Yeah that'll make it tougher for just about everyone who doesn't already know how to do it...

Here's what I did- maybe this can be implemented on a server but idk: I made an html file containing my info, then I used the tool from TwoPilots, it's an html -> pdf converter that can be accessed via command line.

If anyone can figure out how to store a pdf file in a database I'd like to hear that myself. If you're doing my method you could actually store the html contents in the mysql database and then, when accessed, run it through the TwoPilots program.

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Yeah even it is safer than the html forms already mostly immigration sites will be in pdf format only to and for more secure.

Topher said:

You can store binary data in a database. I've done this with images. I wouldn't recommend it as it takes up too much space.

As suggested above... Create an HTML form to collect the info. Store it in a database (mysql or ms sql). When a PDF file is requested, get the data from the db and create the pdf file for the user.

Outline the requirements and post an Odesk job. Be as specific as possible.

GL

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Topher said:

You can store binary data in a database. I've done this with images. I wouldn't recommend it as it takes up too much space.

As suggested above... Create an HTML form to collect the info. Store it in a database (mysql or ms sql). When a PDF file is requested, get the data from the db and create the pdf file for the user.

Outline the requirements and post an Odesk job. Be as specific as possible.

GL

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Yeah we do this in our loan software application as a method to store contracts. That way we don't have to keep up with files on the server. When the contract needs to be printed it outputs the PDF and dynamically populated the fields from an FDF file.