Print Friendly Versions

Anon

I hope someone can help me with this problem I am having.

I need to add "print friendly versions" of my dynamic web pages. They are created using "post" from forms not "get". I will put an icon on the page that then reproduces the page with an added variable say print=yes which then instructs the page not to generate headers etc. But how do I get the form data to be re-posted to the page so that the database is requeried? Its ok on "get" generated pages because the data is in the url.

I'm hoping that I can do something like reload or repost the same page?

All advice is really appreciated.

Many thanks.

Mike

Anon

There are 2 ways you can do this:

Rewrite your PHP script so that it can use both GET and POST methods.
Create a form with hidden fields that have the values that were submitted. Then when the user clicks on the Printer image, it will submit the [hidden] form.

I personally prefer the first method...coz it won't involve JavaScript.

Diego

Anon

The second won't involve Javascript either though, will it? The hidden form values are filled in by PHP and the only thing on the page is that <input type="image">.

The only drawback to the second method is that optional warning from the browser about form data being submitted.

Anon

Oh yeah, I forgot about that! I was thinking something like <img onclick="document.formName.submit()">, that's why I said that it'd involve JavaScript...but you're right, that'll work better.

Diego