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Re: Print preview in php

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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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who don't know javascript. People who don't know javascript are not
the best source of advice on designing systems that use javascript.
  -- Richard Cornford, cljs, <f806at$ail$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk>

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Print preview in php Co <vonclausowitz@gmail.com> - 2011-05-27 14:48 -0700
  Re: Print preview in php The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-28 01:33 +0100
  Re: Print preview in php Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-05-27 21:24 -0400
    Re: Print preview in php Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2011-05-27 21:46 -0500
      Re: Print preview in php Co <vonclausowitz@gmail.com> - 2011-05-28 02:05 -0700
        Re: Print preview in php Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2011-05-28 08:12 -0500
          Re: Print preview in php Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-05-28 17:30 +0200
      Re: Print preview in php Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-05-28 13:33 +0200
        Re: Print preview in php Co <vonclausowitz@gmail.com> - 2011-05-28 05:04 -0700
          Re: Print preview in php TK <tknospa@wejuggle2.com> - 2011-05-28 07:22 -0500
            Re: Print preview in php dougatmilmacdotcom@example.com (Doug Miller) - 2011-05-28 14:14 +0000
            Re: Print preview in php Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-05-28 17:27 +0200
              Re: Print preview in php TK <tknospa@wejuggle2.com> - 2011-05-28 12:20 -0500
                Re: Print preview in php Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-05-28 14:07 -0400
                Re: Print preview in php Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-05-28 20:27 +0200
                Re: Print preview in php TK <tknospa@wejuggle2.com> - 2011-05-28 15:18 -0500
              Re: Print preview in php TK <tknospa@wejuggle2.com> - 2011-05-30 07:32 -0500
                Re: Print preview in php Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-05-30 18:58 +0200
                Re: Print preview in php TK <tknospa@wejuggle2.com> - 2011-05-31 07:34 -0500
                Re: Print preview in php Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-05-31 15:08 +0200
      Re: Print preview in php Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-05-28 09:06 -0400

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