printing

bonjo

I don't know if it is possible with PHP to print directly from a webpage. e.g. with a print-button??
Could anyone help me with this ?
Thanks,

finger

IMHO its not possible to do this. the only
thing that you can do is, to provide a link
that makes your page printable (no frames,
banners and so on) - the user has to choose
File->Print without your help (you could
give him hints of course :-)

regards

finger

bonjo

Thanks .........

jordanj

The best thing to do in this situation is to place a link to a printer friendly page. On the printer friendly page, have a javascript call in the body tag.. Like so:

This will print the page when it is loading.

bonjo

Thanks ilikejonessoda,

Thank you for you're help

I've been searching too and
I have found the following solution for te "print problem"

<?php

echo "<a href=\"page.php?printflag=1\">print this page</a>"

// it's simple and it works.
if($printflag==1){
window.print()

}

if you like to see this in action
visit
http://www.geurts-janssen.nl/test/lookup.php?key=540&min=529&max=540&title=Awb%20hr%20ketels&start=0&end=20

(warning : It's a Dutch site)

Anon

Hi,

It was nice to see that printing works.

Can u plz send the code so that i can also print my page to HP Deskjet 640c.

Thank u in advance,
Arati