how to print a *.doc directly?

[ein712]

I got some idea from our site of how to control or amend some information of a .doc using php.
and the following question is How to print that .doc directly using some php scripts. For the administrator/visitors,all they should do is just click a button someting like "print" ?

Can u give me some idea?Thanks !

[rob76]

I don't think it's possible to print a document using PHP because printing is handled on the client side and PHP is server side

I use javascript to do this:

<script type="text/javascript">
function printpage()
{
window.print()
}
</script>

<form>
<input type="button" value="Click to print this page" onclick="printpage()">
</form>

Rob

[ein712]

Thanks !
I got the idea. yes, PHP is a server-side script.