maximum.software

There is no reason to make yet another template system based PDF generation plugin with so many great options already available.

This plugin is designed to fit specific use cases, a lot of which can’t work with the template model. It is a “filler”, not an “generator”.

There are a lot of limitations that come with having a template system. The ability to provide your own PDF with whatever features you want is an advantage. Users are free to make use of a wide array of features available in the PDF standard and are not limited by whatever a template builder is able to do. I would say that having the option to use ANY PDF editor in the world is more flexibility than having to use a specific limited template system.

Sometimes, filling user’s EXACT PDF is a requirement. A template system isn’t going to work for such users.

If this plugin doesn’t fit your use case then that’s ok. Use one of the plugins you found that works better.

However, I am planning to add a lot of features in the future to improve user experience and add certain features that would complement the “filler” theme.

1. I haven’t used MS Word myself to create PDF documents, however, some users have done it, so, I believe that should work. Make sure to add form fields to your document, such as the text box for their name and the consent checkbox.

2. You will need to do a few things:
a. Attach your PDF file to your CF7 using the “PDF Form” tag generator thickbox.
b. Edit the attachment options to configure where you want your filled PDF to go
c. Create a mapping between your CF7 fields and you PDF fields using the “Field Mapper Tool” in the “PDF Form” tag generator thickbox.
d. Create an image embed configuration for your signature using the “Image Embedding Tool” in the “PDF Form” tag generator thickbox.

See plugin documentation for more details.

Hi,

Signing documents isn’t the best fit use for my plugin, however, it can be done.

First, you will need to create a PDF with your agreement, the consent checkbox and space for the signature.

You will then need to create a CF7 form with a checkbox, attach your PDF (using my plugin) and map that checkbox to your consent field in your PDF using the Field Mapper Tool.

You will need to install a CF7 signature plugin for the signatures. One option is the CF7Sign plugin. I have seen two other plugins that might work. These plugins allow you to add a signature field to your CF7 form.

You will then need to create the signature field in your CF7 and use the Image Embedding Tool to set up embedding of the signature field on the right page in the right location.

You can use the secondary email feature of CF7 to send a copy to the admin. Be sure to enable attachment of the filled PDF to the secondary email. I would also recommend enabling the flatten option.

Let me know if that helps or not.

Thanks.

Looks like this is a duplicate post. Please see the original here.

Here is one possible solution:

We will write a tiny plugin that will create a CF7 special mail-tag and a WP shortcode. Both will output a “user session id” that will be stored in user’s cookies. The filled PDF will be saved on the web server at a path that contains the session id and the redirect page will link to that same location (via the shortcode).

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: CF7 special session id mail-tag and WP shortcode
Version:     0.1
*/

add_filter('wpcf7_special_mail_tags', 'wpcf7_session_id', 10, 3);
function wpcf7_session_id($output, $name, $html)
{
        if($name == '_session_id')
        {
                if(!isset($_COOKIE['wpcf7_session_id']))
                {
                        $id = uniqid();
                        setcookie('wpcf7_session_id', $id, time() + 24*60*60, "/");
                        $_COOKIE['wpcf7_session_id'] = $id;
                }
                $output = $_COOKIE['wpcf7_session_id'];
        }
        return $output;
}

add_shortcode('wpcf7_session_id', 'wpcf7_session_id_get');
function wpcf7_session_id_get()
{
        return isset($_COOKIE['wpcf7_session_id'])?$_COOKIE['wpcf7_session_id']:"";
}

To configure the CF7 form PDF attachment options, we will use the following:
Filename: document
Save PDF file on server: pdfs/[_session_id]/

To configure the redirect page, we will link our download button to the following URL:
/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/[wpcf7_session_id]/document.pdf

So the HTML might be as follows:
<a href="/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/[wpcf7_session_id]/document.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">download</a>

The session id will be created and stored in user’s cookies. Only that user will know the session id, so, they are the only ones who will have access to the filled PDF (assuming that you don’t have directory indexing enabled).

Let me know if that helps or if you run into any issues.

Hi,

Please see the PDF option “Save PDF file on the server at the given path relative to wp-content/uploads”. If you set the path to “my-files” then your PDF files will be saved in “wp-content/uploads/my-files”. You should also set the “Filename” option to a tag that identifies the user submission, such as “[_serial_number]”.

I am not sure exactly what your second question is. I assume you would like to provide a link to the generated PDF to the user. A solution might be to save the generated PDF in “wp-content/uploads/my-files” with filename “[_serial_number]” (as described above) and creating a link to “your-website.tld/wp-content/uploads/my-files/[_serial_number].pdf”. You can add this link in the email message CF7 sends to the user or you can provide it to the user in some other way. If you would like the link to be accessible only to the user which made the form submission then you can set it up such that only that user can guess the link. Make sure the save directory has indexing disabled and set the filename option to something that is hard to guess. You can either use mail-tags in the filename that contain some user-supplied private information or you can possibly use Contact Form 7 Dynamic Text Extension plugin to create a mail-tag with a random number.

Let me know if that helps or not.

Thanks.

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By the way, I’ve had a couple of users recently that had issues like this due to bad modifications of TGMA files in their themes.

The problem is with your theme. I would suggest either switching to a different theme or contacting the developers of the ‘Everse’ theme and asking them to fix this issue.