Submit To PDF in WordPress - wordpress

Question

Is there a plugin or something that creates PDF files from a entered by the user form data, when it clicks on the submit button?

Answer 1

if youre wanting a form filled in, then the details of that form processed and sent to you via email with a pdf attachment of the details, i had something similar a few weeks back, I couldnt find anything that would work the way i wanted, so....
I setup my form then using a custom page template I assigned that to a page, then using php and the html2pdf class i created my pdf which was emailed as an attachment...
heres the code i used..
been minified for this page (remember to sanitize your user input).
<?php
/*
Template Name: FORMTOPDF
*/
?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<style>
/* STYLES FOR ERROR PLACEMENT */
label {
width: 80px;
text-align: right;
float: left;
}
.formerror {
border: 1px solid red;
background-color : #FFCCCC;
width: auto;
padding: 5px 0;
padding-left:10px;
}
.errortext {
font: bold smaller sans-serif;
}
</style>
<?php
// CREATE AN ARRAY FOR OUR ERRORS
$arrErrors = array();
// Check for FORM SUBMISSION
// using hidden form field
if(isset($_POST['action']) && ($_POST['action']=='send'))
{
/* ================= START FORM DATA ========================= */
$name = trim($_POST['name']);
if ($name=='') $arrErrors['name'] = 'Please provide your name.';
$email = trim($_POST['email']);
if ($email=='') $arrErrors['Email'] = 'Please provide your Email Address.';
$comments = trim($_POST['your-comments']);
if ($comments=='') $arrErrors['Comments'] = 'Please add your Comments.';
/* ================= END FORM DATA ========================= */
if (count($arrErrors) == 0) {
// Process form here
/* ================= START PDF CREATION ========================= */
$strContent = "<p>Submission from ".$name."</p>";
$strContent.= "<p><strong>Name</strong>:".$name."</p>";
$strContent.= "<p><strong>Email </strong>: ".$email."</p>";
$strContent.= "<p><strong>Comments</strong> : <br />".$comments."</p>";
/* ================= END PDF CREATION ========================= */
// Include our HTML to PDF creator
// FROM THEME DIRECTORY?
require(TEMPLATEPATH.'/html2pdf/html2fpdf.php');
$pdf=new HTML2FPDF();
$pdf->AddPage();
// folder location of HTML file
$fileLocation = "wp-content/uploads/";
// Call to the file name from the URL
$fileName = "Form_Submission_From_".$name;
// add the location 'wp-content/uploads/' to the fileToOpen
$fileToOpen = $fileLocation;
// Then add the actual file name // form_submission.pdf
// output should look like 'wp-content/uploads/form_submission_from_(name).pdf'
$fileToOpen .= $fileName.".pdf";
// Open the file with read access
$fp = fopen($fileToOpen,"r");
//$strContent = fread($fp, filesize($fileToOpen));
// Close of the page
fclose($fp);
// Create new PDF document from the Content
$pdf->WriteHTML($strContent);
// create our PDF in the wp uploads folder
$pdf->Output("wp-content/uploads/" .$fileName. ".pdf");
/* ================= END PDF ========================= */
/* ================= START EMAIL ========================= */
$headers= "From: YourWebsite <info#yourwebsite.co.uk>\r\n\\";
$emailSubject = "Submission from " . $name;
$emailAdmin = "admin#yourwebsite.co.uk";
$emailMessage = "Submission from ".$yourcompanyname."\n\n";
$emailMessage.= "Company Name: ".$yourcompanyname."\n";
$emailMessage.= "Email : ".$email."\n";
$emailMessage.= "Comments : \n".$comments."\n\n";
$attachments = array(WP_CONTENT_DIR ."/uploads/".$fileName.".pdf", $target_path);
wp_mail($emailAdmin, $emailSubject, $emailMessage, $headers, $attachments);
// Delete our PDF from the server after email Sent
// uncomment this to delete after email sent?
//unlink($fileToOpen);
/* ================= END EMAIL ========================= */
// show thank you message if successful
$strGood = '<div class="formerror" style="background:#FFC;">
<h2>Thank You</h2>
<p>Thank you for contacting us.</p>
</div>';
}else{
// The error array had something in it. There was an error.
// Start adding error text to an error string.
$strError = '<div class="formerror"><p><img style="margin-left:10px;" src="'.get_option('home').'/wp-content/themes/mytheme/media/images/triangle_error.gif" width="16" height="16" hspace="5" alt=""><strong>Please check the following and try again:</strong></p><ul style="margin-left:50px;">';
// Get each error and add it to the error string
// as a list item.
foreach ($arrErrors as $error) {
$strError .= "<li style='list-style-type:circle;'><em>$error</em></li>";
}
$strError .= '</ul></div><br />';
}
}// NOT BEEN SUBMITTED
// show regular page with form
?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<h2>
<?php the_title(); ?>
</h2>
<?php
// show errors if there is any
echo $strError;
?>
<?php
// show thank you if successful
echo $strGood;
?>
<?php the_content('<p>Read the rest of this page »</p>'); ?>
<form method="post" action="<?php bloginfo('url');?>/your-form-page/" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="hidden" value="send" name="action">
<p <?php if (!empty($arrErrors['name'])) echo ' class="formerror"'; ?>>Your Name:
<span class="errortext" style="color:#F00;">(required)</span><br>
The rest of the form below here ------ >
</form>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
thats it, once the user fills out the form, (my form had a lot more fields than this plus an upload field for files to be attached also.)
but the forms submitted, checks for required fields, if successful it will create a pdf file from the $strContent variable, then attaches this to the email to be sent using the wp_mail from wordpress.. then displays a thank you message, or else it will show and highlight any errors,
hope this helps..

Answer 2

I found these plugins that allow posts to be emailed or downloaded as pdf's.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/create-pdf
If you are flexible, It seems possible to programmatically create posts from your form submitted by a user, then create a pdf of that post. The posts that are created from the form could easily be assigned a particular category which is not displayed on the site.
To programmatically create, update, and delete posts, see the WordPress Function Reference, and in particular:
wp_insert_post
wp update post
wp delete post
A quick google search exhibits plenty of ways to create pdf's with php. Some hard, some less hard. I found this class that might get you started: "FPDF"

Answer 3

There is a plugin extension called Gravity PDF, that extends from Gravity Forms. It will generate a PDF from a form, and you can choose to download or email it.
Source
https://wordpress.org/plugins/gravity-forms-pdf-extended/

Answer 4

I haven't done an exhaustive search of the WP-plugins, but from as far as I can tell the answer is no. Of course, it would be possible to create such a plugin from scratch however the server hosting WP would need to have the proper libraries installed in order for the plugin to be useful.

Answer 5

We created a custom solution for one of our clients to get this done since there weren't any ready available plugins. This system creates pdf/word documents by fetching data from Gravity Forms.
You can check out details of the solution here. Gravity Forms to PDF/Word Document Auto-Fill Soluion