<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Set the value of a field</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.fdf-set-target-frame.html">fdf_set_target_frame</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.fdf-set-version.html">fdf_set_version</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.fdf.html">FDF Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="function.fdf-set-value" class="refentry"> <div class="refnamediv"> <h1 class="refname">fdf_set_value</h1> <p class="verinfo">(PHP 4, PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">fdf_set_value</span> — <span class="dc-title">Set the value of a field</span></p> </div> <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.fdf-set-value-description"> <h3 class="title">Description</h3> <div class="methodsynopsis dc-description"> <span class="type">bool</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>fdf_set_value</strong></span> ( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">resource</span> <code class="parameter">$fdf_document</code></span> , <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$fieldname</code></span> , <span class="methodparam"><span class="type"><a href="language.pseudo-types.html#language.types.mixed" class="type mixed">mixed</a></span> <code class="parameter">$value</code></span> [, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">int</span> <code class="parameter">$isName</code></span> ] )</div> <p class="para rdfs-comment"> Sets the <em><code class="parameter">value</code></em> for the given field. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.fdf-set-value-parameters"> <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3> <p class="para"> <dl> <dt> <span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">fdf_document</code></em></span> <dd> <p class="para"> The FDF document handle, returned by <span class="function"><a href="function.fdf-create.html" class="function">fdf_create()</a></span>, <span class="function"><a href="function.fdf-open.html" class="function">fdf_open()</a></span> or <span class="function"><a href="function.fdf-open-string.html" class="function">fdf_open_string()</a></span>. </p> </dd> </dt> <dt> <span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">fieldname</code></em></span> <dd> <p class="para"> Name of the FDF field, as a string. </p> </dd> </dt> <dt> <span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">value</code></em></span> <dd> <p class="para"> This parameter will be stored as a string unless it is an array. In this case all array elements will be stored as a value array. </p> </dd> </dt> <dt> <span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">isName</code></em></span> <dd> <blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>: <p class="para"> In older versions of the FDF toolkit last parameter determined if the field value was to be converted to a PDF Name (= 1) or set to a PDF String (= 0). </p> <p class="para"> The value is no longer used in the current toolkit version 5.0. For compatibility reasons it is still supported as an optional parameter beginning with PHP 4.3, but ignored internally. </p> </p></blockquote> </dd> </dt> </dl> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.fdf-set-value-returnvalues"> <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3> <p class="para"> Returns <strong><code>TRUE</code></strong> on success or <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong> on failure. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 changelog" id="refsect1-function.fdf-set-value-changelog"> <h3 class="title">Changelog</h3> <p class="para"> <table class="doctable informaltable"> <thead> <tr> <th>Version</th> <th>Description</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody class="tbody"> <tr> <td>4.3.0</td> <td> Support for arrays in the <em><code class="parameter">value</code></em> parameter was added. </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.fdf-set-value-seealso"> <h3 class="title">See Also</h3> <p class="para"> <ul class="simplelist"> <li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.fdf-get-value.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">fdf_get_value()</a> - Get the value of a field</span></li> <li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.fdf-remove-item.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">fdf_remove_item()</a> - Sets target frame for form</span></li> </ul> </p> </div> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.fdf-set-target-frame.html">fdf_set_target_frame</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.fdf-set-version.html">fdf_set_version</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.fdf.html">FDF Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>