Submit complete PDF to server.

So I started out thinking this would be a super easy thing to implement. I had an awesome PDF that I wanted to put on-line and have people fill out and hit a button and have it saved on my server. (eventually I'd love it if it was submitted to my dropbox.) Looking high and low I couldn't find anyway to do this. I even spent an hour on chat with adobe and had a case subsequently submitted and then escalated to senior support and after 2+ hours on the phone they still don't know what to say. For the submit form options the bottom one is submit the complete PDF and when I choose that nothing gets saved to the server instead a PDF gets created showing an index of the directory that I'm trying to save it to. Finally I decided that maybe I would just have the data submitted as fdf and then put into the PDF and re saved. So after finding this link< http://koivi.com/fill-pdf-form-fields/tutorial.php > I can now have the filled out information submitted as a fdf file! But can't figure out how to have the fdf put back into the PDF and flattened and saved.
So in short I'm looking to have a PDF filled out and submitted/saved back on the server. Either by submitting the complete PDF or submitting the fdf file and put back into the PDF.
If anyone can help me with this I'd be eternally greatful to you!!!

The submission arrives on the server as the input stream, so in PHP you can simply read it and write it back to a file.
See the example in http://tv.adobe.com/watch/acrobat-community-tv/working-with-form-data/
PHP used to include support for FDF parsing, but it's been depreciated. You can still get the libraries though, and put the classes back (along with a copy of the FDF Toolkit binaries) - see http://php.net/manual/en/book.fdf.php - but if you send XFDF data you can parse it easily as it's just XML.
Also, bear in mind that recent security changes in Acrobat and Adobe Reader mean that if you're viewing the PDF on the desktop, FDF responses from the server will be blocked if they try to change the document or execute a script (such as filling in a form value or opening an alert box). If the PDF is running in a browser and the submission is to the same domain as the PDF was served from, the response will be allowed to run.

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