Which form would work best with a Filemaker database? PDF or HTML? and can we use a submit button to do this?

We are looking at developing work forms for a project that will use a submit button to send the data from the form to a Filemaker database. My question is can this be done with a PDF or do we need to convert it to a HTML form?

The architecture is not submit form - database, not exactly. It's submit form - web app - database. The crucial thing is the web app, perhaps one of CGI/PHP/ASP/others... FileMaker Pro seems a slightly unusual choice for a web back end, but there is a FileMaker Pro Server product. (Regular FileMaker is out of the question).
So, you can have a web app which takes HTML format submits and updates a database. What about PDF?
* PDF can submit the same format as HTML, so the same backend can work
* PDF can submit other formats, FDF or XFDF. The web script could handle these.
Frankly, if HTML is an option I'd go with HTML. There are many important compatibility issues with PDF forms, since so many browsers now do not use Adobe technology, and have their own. In these alternatives, form support goes from nonexistent to flaky, via badly broken.

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