Acrobat 9 - Populate fields from a XLS

I am using Acrobat 9 and I want to createa fillable PDF that upon the user’s choice for the first field, autofills the 2nd and 3rd field basing on the content of an XLS file.
I have an list.xls file that gets updated regularly, and it looks like as follows:
Machine description
Serial no.
Last checked on
Sewer
1111111
2010/05/12
Groover
2222222
2008/04/25
I would like to create a fillable PDF where the user choose the machine from a drop down menu that shows the machines listed on the first column of list.xls, and upon the user's choice it populate automaticaly the fields "serial no." and "last check" with the data from the other two columns of list.xls.
I have never used JavaScript before,so please keep it simple.
Your help is very much appreciated,
Paola

If you want to fill the LiveCycle Designer form, then you need to render it with the datafile.
The datafile can be an XML file or a webservice or Database.
You cannot directly fill the PDF from a PHP script. What you can do is, have a LiveCycle Process created in Workbench and then invoke the Process from PHP application by passing the information. The Livecycle process will merge the data with the template and return the PDF to the client application.
There is an other feature in Acrobat PRO that you can import an XML file directly into a PDF but that is a manual effort. You can not link that to a PHP Script.
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Srini

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