Описание

This plugin gives WordPress Admin Dashboard users the ability to add fillable PDF attachments to email messages and form submission responses of Contact Form 7.

If the PDF attachment has a PDF form, the plugin allows users to add fields to the Contact Form 7 form and/or link them to fields in the PDF. The plugin also allows the attached PDF files to be embedded with images supplied by the Contact Form 7 form fields. The filled PDF files can be saved on the web server.

When your website visitor submits your Contact Form 7 form, the form in the PDF file is filled with the form information, images are embedded and the resulting PDF file is attached to the Contact Form 7 email message. The resulting PDF file can also be downloaded by your website visitors if this option is enabled in your form’s options.

An external web API (https://pdf.ninja) is used for filling PDF forms (free usage has limitations). The «Enterprise Extension» plugin is available for purchase that enables the processing all PDF operations locally on your web server and disables the use of the external web API.

Requirements:
* PHP 5.2 or newer
* WordPress 4.8 or newer
* Contact Form 7 5.0 or newer
* IE 11 (or equivalent) or newer

Known problems:
* Some third party plugins break the functionality of this plugin (see a list below). Try troubleshooting the problem by disabling likely plugins that may cause issues, such as plugins that modify WordPress or Contact Form 7 in radical ways.
* Some image optimization plugins optimize PDFs and strip PDF forms from PDF files. This may cause your existing forms to break at a random point in the future (when PDF file cache times out at the API).
* Multi-select checkbox fields are not currently supported. Support is planned in the future.
* The old version of the API (v1) produces PDFs which may not render properly in some PDF readers and with some UTF-8 (non-latin) characters, checkboxes and radio buttons.

Known incompatible plugins:
* Imagify (strips forms from PDF files)
* ShortPixel Image Optimizer (strips forms from PDF files)
* Live Preview for Contact Form 7
* Open external links in a new window
* WordPress Multilingual Plugin
* Contact Form 7 Skins

Special thanks to the following sponsors of this plugin:
* BrowserStack
* Momentum3
* G-FITTINGS GmbH

Скриншоты

PDF Form button is available to access PDF attachments interface
Form-tag Generator interface that allows users to upload and attach PDF files and generate tags
Email message in Thunderbird with the attached PDF file

Установка

Install the Contact Form 7 plugin.
Upload this plugin’s folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
Start using the ‘PDF Form’ button in the CF7 form editor

Часто задаваемые вопросы

Does this plugin allow my website users to work with PDF files?

No. This plugin adds features to the Contact Form 7 interface in the WordPress Admin Panel only.

Does this plugin require special software installation on the web server?

No. The plugin uses core WordPress features only. No special software or PHP extensions are needed. Working with PDF files is done through Pdf.Ninja API. It is recommended to have a working SSL/TLS certificate verification with cURL.

How are the CF7 form fields mapped to the PDF form fields?

There are two ways to map fields with this plugin. The field mapper tool allows you to map fields individually and, when needed, generate new CF7 fields on the fly. The tag generator tool maps to the fields in the PDF form using the random looking code in the CF7 field name that it generates. Here is the format: pdf-field-{attachment-id}-{human-readable-field-name}-{random-looking-code}. The ‘{attachment-id}’ can be ‘all’ to allow it to map to all PDFs attached to the CF7 form (in case you ever want to swap out the PDF file without needing to fix the generated tags). If you remove the random looking code, the field will no longer be mapped to the field in the PDF.

My fields are not getting filled, what is wrong?

If you reuploaded the PDF file and your mapping was using the old file ID then your mapping will no longer work and you will need to recreate it.

If you are using the field mapper tool, make sure the mapping exists in the list of mappings and the field names match. If you are using the tag generator tool, make sure the attachment ID matches (or is ‘all’) and the base64-encoded part of the tag name is unchanged.

If you renamed the PDF field, you will need to remove the old mapping and recreate the mapping with the new name.

My checkboxes and/or radio buttons are not getting filled, what is wrong?

Make sure your PDF checkbox/radio field’s exported value matches the value of the CF7 form’s checkbox tag. Usually, it is «On» or «Yes». If you need to display a different value in the CF7 form, use pipes.

Some PDF viewers don’t render checkboxes correctly in some PDF files due to incompatible PDF formatting. You may be able to solve this issue by recreating the PDF in a different PDF editor.

How do I remove the watermark in the filled PDF files?

Please see the Pdf.Ninja API website and the Enterprise Extension plugin.

How do I set up PDF form filling on my local web server?

Please see the Enterprise Extension plugin.

Отзывы

gevcen 06.06.2021

Thanks for the great plugin, it works perfectly, just a small bug I found about the success notification after submitting the form, besides that it's all good

rscarter1 10.06.2020

This plugin made the project I thought would take days instead take only minutes to complete. Wow. that you for this.

sylvain68 01.05.2020

This plugin is ideal for automatically filling pdfs based on data entered by users. It is a good complement for CF7. You can even add a handwritten signature to your pdf form thanks to its compatibility with the "Contact Form 7 Signature Addon" plugin. So yes you will probably need the PRO version to remove the watermark but it is a good investment. And then the FREE version allows you to test all the features of this plugin. I just have a suggestion for a better compatibility with the "CF7 Conditional Fields PRO" plugin by Jules Colle. For this I will open a support topic.

Cri000 04.04.2020

If you need to use contact form 7 with PDF this is the best plugin out there. After numerous tries with all kinds of free and premium plugins, this is the far the best of them. The integration is perfect with API and contact form 7. Thanks for the plugin!

agnoletti 25.03.2020

After extensive comparison I ended up selecting this plugin (PRO version without watermark at 49 USD/year) in order to get a PDF file from a Contact Form 7 form. The good points of this plugin are: - you are allowed to make all the testing you want before deciding if buying the PRO version without watermark (the free version is for unlimited testing only) - the linking between Contact Form 7's fields and the fields in the PDF is easy - you can upload different PDF files and have them filled at once (one field's data can go to several places in the same PDF or, should be, in different PDFs) - I could create the PDF file and its fillable fields from the free LibreOffice Writer (it's similar to Microsoft Word) - You can decide if the created PDF is still fillable or not ("flattened") - I can add that you can have only certain fields still fillable if you make some of them "read only" while creating the PDF (in LibreOffice Writer) and set the whole PDF created by this plugin "not flattened") Some important missing features are: - It is not possible to "trigger" a specific PDF file based on a specific answer in the form (the only option is not to have a PDF at all if all the fields are empty) - that would be a very important feature in order to get only the PDFs you actually need based on your selection - While a Contact Form 7 field data can go to different places in a PDF, the opposite is not possible (it means that a PDF field can receive a data only from one specific Contact Form 7 field) - multiple selections do not work - you have to create several "multiple" selection (one on top of the other) where you really have only one selection for each one

sgreenb7 08.12.2019

Nothings worse than finding a great plugin, having a small issue and not getting any support. The support for this plugin was great with a response the next day. I had a minor issue which they helped me resolve quickly, and followed up after I had a second question just as quickly. Plugin and support both are great and was hard to find a plugin that does something similar, glad I got this working. 🙂

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Журнал изменений

1.3.21

Release date: October 29, 2021
Ensured support up to CF7 v5.5.2
Fixed issues with tag generator code when unavailable tag names are used
Other minor improvements

1.3.20

Release date: October 14, 2021
Ensured support up to CF7 v5.5.1
Added dismissible notices
Minor refactor of API communication code
Added a confirmation box when attaching a PDF file with no fields
Other minor improvements

1.3.19

Release date: September 21, 2021
Crash fix

1.3.18

Release date: September 18, 2021
Added a user-provided email address field for requesting a new key from the API
Fixed a minor error reporting bug when requesting a new key from the API fails
Fixed an issue caused by direct modification of fileId post meta in the database
Fixed a bug introduced recently that was causing the (deprecated) tag generator to not work
Fixed typo

1.3.17

Release date: August 11, 2021
Fixed a bug that caused cron schedules issues with other plugins
Bumped tested up to WP version

1.3.16

Release date: August 2, 2021
Switched the Pdf.Ninja API version setting default from v1 to v2

1.3.15

Release date: July 14, 2021
Renamed plugin
Added CF7 v5.4.2 support
Improved API response decoding error checks
Small improvement in tag generator for radio/select/checkbox fields

1.3.14

Release date: July 3, 2021
Added the default tag option to radio/select/checkbox tag generator
Fixed an issue with radio/select/checkbox tag generation with v2
Improved tag generator to better escape tag names and values
Fixed an issue with CF7 fields lists in tag generator thickbox not getting refreshed when necessary
Fixed padding issue in tag generator thickbox
Added confirmation box for the delete all mappings button
Fixed an issue with localization not working properly
Improved Enterprise Extension support messages

1.3.13

Release date: June 1, 2021
Added API version configuration option
Improved plugin activation and deactivation hooks
Improved and enabled the database migration scripts
Added 1.3.13 database migration script
Other bug fixes and improvements

1.3.12

Release date: May 5, 2021
Certified CF7 v5.4.1 as a supported version
Improved admin notices
Improved frontend JS
Improved Enterprise Extension support checking code

1.3.11

Release date: April 12, 2021
Fixed and improved cron code
Changed the default download links timeout from 1 day to 1 hour
Fixed a crash
Improved frontend JS slightly
Added minimum kernel version check to enterprise extension support checking code

1.3.10

Release date: April 4, 2021
Fixed a bug that broke CF7 JS response
Minor filter correction
Fixed PHP warning

1.3.9

Release date: April 2, 2021
Fixed an issue with the download link feature and the latest version of CF7

1.3.8

Release date: April 2, 2021
Fixed and improved download link feature support in CF7 v5.4
Fixed old version support
Hid CF7 insert box to prevent it from getting in the way of the tag generator UI
Fixed other minor issues

1.3.7

Release date: March 10, 2021
Fixed old PHP version support
Decreased order of execution for wpcf7_before_send_mail action to allow other plugins to finish first

1.3.6

Release date: March 7, 2021
Added CF7 v5.4 compatibility: WPCF7_Submission::add_uploaded_file()
Enabled CF7 v5.4 support
Readme update

1.3.5

Release date: March 1, 2021
Fixed an accidental bug that was causing PDFs not to be attached to email messages

1.3.4

Release date: March 1, 2021
CF7 v5.4 is still unsupported, however, error mitigation measures were added
Added CF7 v5.4 compatibility: WPCF7_Submission::uploaded_files()
Added CF7 plugin version support checking feature
Added crash prevention check to CF7’s add_uploaded_file call
Updated readme
Other minor fixes

1.3.3

Release date: December 9, 2020
Bug fix: Removed unnecessary front-end Font Awesome CSS left in by mistake
Added WebP image format support
Improved Enterprise Extension support checking code
Other minor fixes

1.3.2

Release date: September 4, 2020
Bug fix: Skip when empty feature no longer works

1.3.1

Release date: August 20, 2020
Fixed image embed MIME type checking issue that occurs when PHP fileinfo functions are not working

1.3.0

Release date: August 8, 2020
WARNING: this update introduces some changes in plugin operation, these changes should not break anything for existing users, however, testing after an update is encouraged
Added mail-tags feature
Improved general error handling during PDF filling
WARNING: should any errors occur with the PDF filling process, they will now be displayed to users when they submit forms on the front-end (instead of being attached along with user input in a .txt file)
Added file MIME type validation for image embeds
WARNING: image embedding is now limited to the following MIME types: image/jpeg, image/png, image/gif, image/tiff, image/bmp, image/x-ms-bmp, image/svg+xml
Switched to using mail-tags replacement function wpcf7_mail_replace_tags() for filling CF7 fields input (to improve third party plugin support)
Hidden tag generator tool by default
Other minor bug fixes and improvements

1.2.4

Release date: May 15, 2020
Bug fixes
Code optimizations and improvements
Added CF7 form duplication support

1.2.3

Release date: March 4, 2020
Fixed an issue that causes the removal of attachments from other posts when attaching them to CF7 forms
Fixed a bug that caused HTML code to show up in response messages for filled PDF download links in some cases
Fixed a bug with filled PDF saving/downloading when handling errors
Refactored file save/download handling code

1.2.2

Release date: January 8, 2020
Bug fixes
Readme updates

1.2.1

Release date: October 27, 2019
Fixed an issue with ajax form submission not always receiving HTML download response message
Fixed an issue which caused the plugin to deactivate when updating from pre-1.2 versions to 1.2.0 and later versions due to main plugin php file rename

1.2.0

Release date: September 27, 2019
Added a number of optimizations, bug fixes and improvements
Updated the lists of conflicting plugins and sponsors
Added an option for saving the filled PDF on the server
Added an option for allowing users to download the filled PDFs
Added integration with WP media library
Added code to add pipe to CF7 tags to prevent user confusion with singular options
Fixed CF7 tag generation code’s field value escape issue
Renamed text domain and plugin filename/slug to the published plugin slug (plugin needs to be reactivated after update due to a change in plugin filename)

1.0.2

Release date: February 12, 2019
Added filename option with mail-tags feature
Minor fixes and improvements

1.0.1

Release date: January 15, 2019
Bug fixes and improvements

1.0.0

Release date: April 6, 2018
Major plugin refactoring
Added image embedding tool
Added help boxes
A large number of bug fixes, optimizations and UX improvements
Added Enterprise Extension support checking