Submit fdf data to php to pupulate a html form text box

okay i have no idea if this can be done because I always see it the other way around....
I want to give my clients some instructions to type in an account number that is taken from the pdf, submitted to my web server in php or asp, and generates the information into a text box field...
can anyone help me in the right direction?

I cannot use the typical regular HTML "a href",
because I have to call a struts action.No... you said you have to submit the form with a link. A link is an "a href", it's exactly what <html:link> generates. But a link cannot be used for form submitting except by invoking Javascript to do it programatically.
Using an action in <html:link>, presuming that's really refering to an action and not just the href value, which is what I'm not really sure of. It's been a while since I've used Struts. So maybe the action is the href part, and you can put "javascript:void(0);" there?
But I'm absolutely positive about the HTML/Javascript aspect. Struts tags don't alter how HTML works. They just make generating some HTML content easier. But in this case, I'm not sure that's helpful because I never found a simple way to get the actual form name that the <html:form> creates.

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