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Livecycle Forms integration with Web Applications

bjohn17
Registered: Feb 16 2010
Posts: 4

Our company has developed a very complicated Livecycle from that has traditionally been used internally on local computers and submitted via email from department to department.
 
We are looking to design a web-based application taht will use the same form, but display it in the web-browser to be filled out - without the form actually being downloaded onto the users machine (to prtect the source code)
 
Our developers are going to recreate the Livecycle forms in Html and embed the same Java script we have used for auto-populating drop-downs, validation, etc.
 
I would rather keep the ability I have to modify the forms in livecycle and have them displayed on the web application.
 
We are also going to use Mysql on the server to update and save the values in the form to a database.
 
Can anyone point me to the adobe product or examples of someone who has already done this in a web-based application?
 
Thank you

My Product Information:
LiveCycle Designer, Windows
NK-INC.COM
Registered: Apr 17 2010
Posts: 93
What type of Server are you going to use?

If you are using Microsoft .net web servers then,
FDFToolkit.net uses iTextSharp technologies,
and can populate PDF forms in a web browser,
and can parse PDF form submissions.

Check out FDFToolkit.net for more information:
http://www.fdftoolkit.net/


bjohn17
Registered: Feb 16 2010
Posts: 4
Thank you for your response,

I am developing the application in PHP and mySql. You recomendation led me full cirlct to this link fo rthose wanting to accomplish the same kind of task using php:

http://php.net/manual/en/ref.fdf.php

I have had to resort to doing a full livecycle ES install to get everything I needed,but I will use the fdftoolkit and php ideas on future projects for sure!

Thanks again.