Posted by Shelly on 09/23/07 14:07

"Sanders Kaufman" <bucky@kaufman.net> wrote in message
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> "Shelly" <sheldonlg.news@asap-consult.com> wrote in message
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>> "Sanders Kaufman" <bucky@kaufman.net> wrote in message
>
>>> Most of that stuff sounds pretty simple - but the PDF parsing might be
>>> your deal-breaker.
>>> You'll have to be a real PDF guru to do that.
>>> Have you explored the PDF features in PHP?
>>
>> Actually, that's probably the easy part. There are inexpensive packages
>> out there to that. What I would need is a command line application. The
>> other stuff looks like the hard stuff to me.
>
> Really? I thought you were a PHP guru looking for PDF advice.
> If you can read the PDF fields into a PHP variable - what

I have done quite a bit of php coding (and C, Java, Fortran, etc.), but I
would never associate "php guru" with my name (seriously!). So much to
learn, so little time. :-)

>>> 3 - manually take the data from the pdf and enter it into an order
>>> processing mode and a database.
>
> That seems to be your stumble step, right?

No, the entire process.

> If you're not comfortable writing database code, you could try any of the
> home-spun database classes out there.

I am VERY comfortable writing database code. It seems that is all I do,
somethimes :-)

> Here's mine:
> http://www.kaufman.net/bvckvs/redist/bvckvs_database.php.txt
>
>

Shelly

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