Can PHP handle a PDF form submitted as a complete PDF document

Question

In Short:

I have a PDF that customers can fill out. When they press the \"Submit\" button, I want to automatically send an email with the completed PDF

Answer 1

If your $_FILES array is empty, you probably are using wrong <form enctype=""> attribute value. Check if you have:

enctype="multipart/form-data"

This is required for form to allow sending files. Then you can use uploaded file and send it to the client, which seems that you are capable of.

Answer 2

You can pull the raw PDF data from $GLOBALS['HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA']. You can output this to a file and open it as you would any PDF.