| Re: Print preview in php [message #174239 is a reply to message #174230] |
Sat, 28 May 2011 11:33   |
Thomas 'PointedEars'
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Robert Heller wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>> On 5/27/2011 5:48 PM, Co wrote:
>>> I was wondering if someone can help me with a code to preview part of
>>> a php page
>>> and eventually print it.
>>> I don't want to print all of the page with images etc, just the data
>>> within a certain area of the page.
>>>
>>> Anyone know if this is possible?
>>
>> From a web page? Not possible. PHP runs on the server and has nothing
>> to do with page layout (that's HTML/CSS). Print preview runs on the
>> client and is dependent on client settings, of which PHP has no
>> knowledge.
>
> OTOH, if the web page in question is being served by the PHP code, all
> you need to do is create a link, something like this:
>
> <a href="/ServeThePrinterFriendlyPage.php?..." target="_blank"
> onclick="window.open(this.href,'win2','status=no,toolbar=no,[…]');
> return false;"
You really want to avoid such spaghetti code.
> rel="nofollow">Print This</a>
>
> And then the ServeThePrinterFriendlyPage.php file would then serve the
> page without the special effects that make sense on the screen (eg
> images, flash, ads, etc.) but don't on the printer. [complicated
> regeneration of the current resource, probably with lots of hardly
> maintainable ifs in-between]
Or you could much more simply define a stylesheet for print media that does
the necessary adjustments:
<link rel="stylesheet" media="print" href="print.css">
PointedEars
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