PDF form web-only

I designed a PDF form for a client. The form was sent by email to a group of people, completed by these people, and returned by email. I combined all of the completed forms into a single PDF, and the combined PDF was posted to their web site.
The client made the comment:
"Next time I want a more dynamic and socially networked web-only project."
Can anyone clarify what the client meant by that?
Is it possible to do what the client wants using a PDF form or would something different be needed?

There are a combination of interpretations that come to mind. Dynamic could refer to the form itself (can be done in Designer), but I doubt it. I suspect he is looking for a solution that has the data submitted to a web script that process the data and adds it to an HTML file in a dynamic sense, so right after the form has been submitted, the data is posted.
If that is what is requested, then you need to have the form data (no need for the whole form) submitted to a web script that parses the data into a database and the results of the database posted on the web site. The parsing for an AcroForm can be done with the FDF Toolkit. If it is a Designer form then you need to parse the XML data file that is submitted.
I think the boss is trying to get around the tedious and delayed process that you used with collecting e-mails and then combining the results. Such a process is not dynamic or that timely, and requires a person to be in the loop that has some idea of what needs to be done.

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