Printable page

wcl99

Hi !
Is there anyone tell me how to make a printable page just like this PHPBuilder, that is remove all the banner, chnaage bgcolor to white and so on....
Thanks !

finger

well i dont know exactly how phpbuilder is
built but i do all my pages like this:

one indexfile that creates a html-table. the
first row (colspan 2) includes another php-
file (f.e. top.php), the left column includes
f.e. left.php and the last cell (the main-
space 🙂 includes the page specified by the
parameters the index.php receives.

now you could do the following: if index.php
gets the parameter 'printable=true' it simply
DOESNT create the table with top.php and
left.php but only shows the php/html/orwhathowever-file that should appear in mainspace
(as the other parameters say).

hope that helps

finger

Anon

You simply divide content and display, for example you leave the text in a .txt file and read and print it within the php. Now, if there is avariable for printable set, don't display the html around...

I did a script that does stuff like that automatically and will soon release it when I debugged some minor problems, you can see a running version of it at http://www.onlinetools.org/articles/stretchypages.php...

Another idea is to take a new php script that simply cuts out all the HTML of the page while displaying, you can do that by reading the content of the document into a variable and then doing a $var=strip_tags($var) or for older php versions
$var = ereg_replace('<([^>]|\n)*>', '', $var);

cheers

Chris