printer_write

[dniezby]

Can I user printer_write to print an HTML file?

For example, I want a user to look at a printer friendly page and select a button that will print the page as is.

I was going to create a button with the value "submit".

<form action=PHP_SELF method"POST" >
<input type=submit  value="submit" name="Print">
</form>
<?php
$webpage="myfile.html";

if (!$submit){
         $handle = printer_open();
         printer_write($handle, $webpage);
         printer_close($handle);
}
?>

[Weedpacket]

Um, the printer_* functions are for controlling a printer that's connected to the server, not the client...

You want the printing to be done on the client's end. So you need to do this with a client-side language - Javascript, in other words.

<input type="button" value="Print!" onClick="javascript:window.print();">

[dniezby]

Well, thank you.

I've been focusing on learing PHP so much I forgot all about using Javascript commands.

Thanks.