How do they do that?.... Printer Friendly View....

jdh

I was wondering how some of those sites do that.... like news.com . When you click on a article, at the bottom of the page it gives you the option to make it printer friendly. It then gives you the story, without the HTML, most images, and the stuff you dont want. How do they do that?

Thanks,

jburfield

It's just a page formatted differently. That's all. The story, etc, is stored in a database, they show you the main page, if you want the 'printer friendly' version, click the link, they pull the same story, format it differently (no images, yadda, yadda) and you can print it and it looks nice.

SImple as that.

-- Jason

jdh

So there is now way of PHP to strip images, html from that page or something like that?

edspace

I dont think php has its own function for that but you can easily make one yourself. The best way would be to have a separate php file formated without images but with a simple loop and some tricky parsing you can strip of the images yourself.

superwormy

The best way would be to store just the text in the database, then just handle the ouput differently.

exponder

That's exactly what I did, after getting down the varibles in a url, I stored all of my content in a single directory, every thing in txt files. this would probably be the best way for you to go.

Like jburfield said, just format your page different, and include the story/content in it. This might help you;

Make a file called "pfriendly.php" with this code in it:

<html>
<body>

<?php

$print = $_GET['print'];

if (($print == story1) || ($print == "content/story1.txt")) { include 'files/story.txt'; }

?>

</html>
</body>

Then you could use:
http://www.yoursite.com/pfriendly.php?print=story1

It would be nothing but harmless text. Assuming "story1.txt" didn't have any image tags inside it obviously. Hope this helps.