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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>PDF Fill PDF Form Results</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
// Please NOTE: In this sample we're assuming Cloud Api Server is hosted at "https://localhost".
// If it's not then please replace this with with your hosting url.
// Get submitted form data
$apiKey = $_POST["apiKey"]; // The authentication key (API Key). Get your own by registering at https://app.pdf.co/documentation/api
// Prepare URL for HTML to PDF API call
$url = "https://localhost/pdf/edit/add";
// Prepare requests params
// See documentation: https://apidocs.pdf.co
$parameters = array();
// Direct URL of source PDF file.
$parameters["url"] = "bytescout-com.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/pdf-form/f1040.pdf";
// Name of resulting file
$parameters["name"] = "f1040-form-filled";
// If large input document, process in async mode by passing true
$parameters["async"] = false;
// Field Strings
$fields = '[{
"fieldName": "topmostSubform[0].Page1[0].FilingStatus[0].c1_01[1]",
"pages": "1",
"text": "True"
},
{
"fieldName": "topmostSubform[0].Page1[0].f1_02[0]",
"pages": "1",
"text": "John A."
},
{
"fieldName": "topmostSubform[0].Page1[0].f1_03[0]",
"pages": "1",
"text": "Doe"
},
{
"fieldName": "topmostSubform[0].Page1[0].YourSocial_ReadOrderControl[0].f1_04[0]",
"pages": "1",
"text": "123456789"
},
{
"fieldName": "topmostSubform[0].Page1[0].YourSocial_ReadOrderControl[0].f1_05[0]",
"pages": "1",
"text": "Joan B."
},
{
"fieldName": "topmostSubform[0].Page1[0].YourSocial_ReadOrderControl[0].f1_05[0]",
"pages": "1",
"text": "Joan B."
},
{
"fieldName": "topmostSubform[0].Page1[0].YourSocial_ReadOrderControl[0].f1_06[0]",
"pages": "1",
"text": "Doe"
},
{
"fieldName": "topmostSubform[0].Page1[0].YourSocial_ReadOrderControl[0].f1_07[0]",
"pages": "1",
"text": "987654321"
}]';// JSON string
// Convert JSON string to Array
$fieldsArray = json_decode($fields, true);
$parameters["fields"] = $fieldsArray;
// Create Json payload
$data = json_encode($parameters);
// Create request
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("x-api-key: " . $apiKey, "Content-type: application/json"));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
// Execute request
$result = curl_exec($curl);
if (curl_errno($curl) == 0)
{
$status_code = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
if ($status_code == 200)
{
$json = json_decode($result, true);
if ($json["error"] == false)
{
$resultFileUrl = $json["url"];
// Display link to the file with conversion results
echo "<div><h2>Result:</h2><a href='" . $resultFileUrl . "' target='_blank'>" . $resultFileUrl . "</a></div>";
}
else
{
// Display service reported error
echo "<p>Error: " . $json["message"] . "</p>";
}
}
else
{
// Display request error
echo "<p>Status code: " . $status_code . "</p>";
echo "<p>" . $result . "</p>";
}
}
else
{
// Display CURL error
echo "Error: " . curl_error($curl);
}
// Cleanup
curl_close($curl);
?>
</body>
</html>
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