Printable version

[Anon]

I'm thinking about building up a db site, and also want to create printable versions and so on. Any tips on how to do this the best way?

Thanks,
Stan

[Anon]

Use include files (not require) for all graphical content such as colormenus and logos.
Nest these includes with - for example -
if ($printer != 1) {
include("menu.inc")
}

or again
if ($printer != 1) {
<img src="image.jpg" width=100 height=50>
}

And at the bottom of each page, have a link like this:
if ($printer != 1) {
<a href="<? echo $PATH_INFO; ?>?printer=1">Printer friendly</a>
} else {
<a href="<? echo $PATH_INFO; ?>">Back to normal</a>

}

[Anon]

or...

if you don't need every user to access your db using php (and so adding strain to the server), generate html pages every so often for appropriate content in your db.

using this method, your db can contain articles in an xml format which can be parsed in different ways when generating the printer version, and the web version.

of course, you could do xml parsing dynamically... but that makes me nervous when i think about lots of people accessing my tiny server all at once 😉

just a thought, as it's how i'm implementing a site at the moment...

dom
🙂