automatically send out pdf document – unique for each registrant on the webpage

  • Hello. I would like to ask you for advice or even to establish cooperation.

    We are looking for an automated solution for our project, something like paid club registration.

    Similar solution like WooComerce or Mioweb+Smartemailing+FAPI but, we do not need to send an invoice, but other pdf document. We need to generate something like a decree/statement, that should be sent to the registrant after registration (placing an order).

    We have four basic requirements:

    1.         Verification that the person is real and we need him to be unique. Ideally the ability to scan his ID. (If this would be too difficult or expensive, we might look for a “more subtle” option.)

    2.         There should be a check on the registration form to see if we already have the person registered in our database. Each person can only register once. And it would be good to have an option there to verify that it is a real and at the same time unique person.

    3.         Possibility to pay the “membership fee”.

    4.         After successful registration and after payment has been paired, a pdf decree should be emailed to the new member with the details they have entered. At the same time, the system must generate and assign a unique identification number for this new member.

    Do you have experience with similar customization? Maybe you have already programmed something similar? Alternatively, do you know any plugin or other solution, plese?

    Many thanks for your time and any advice and tip. Eventually we may be able to establish a collaboration then.

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    The classic way to create PDF files with PHP is the FPDF class. There are also a number of PDF plugins.

    Actually creating an actual .pdf file for email attachment can get rather messy when you have a lot of registrants. You would need some sort of garbage collection scheme to delete older files so your server doesn’t get filled up with useless .pdf files. IMO it’s better to send the PDF directly to their browser as a byte stream. Then the registrant can do as they please with it. Print it, save it, trash it, ignore it.

    Another option is to provide an attachment URL to the emailer function that results in the server sending a dynamically generated PDF byte stream instead of an actual server .pdf file.

    even to establish cooperation.

    You’re on the edge of running afoul of our forum guidelines with that suggestion. Soliciting any sort of help or cooperation that involves any kind of compensation is not allowed in these forums. You’re not in any kind of trouble… yet. Don’t go there ??

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