Using PHP to create "Printer version" of screen

ppowell

I need a fast PHP solution to generate a "Printer version" of a stylesheet-enhanced web page. The script that generates the page is PHP with HTML and CSS, all procedural scripted code.

I am not in the least bit sure as to how to make this "printer-friendly" in a hurry.

Thanx
Phil

LordShryku

Use CSS. Add a style sheet with media="print" to control the printer output.

ppowell

Would I scrape the original URL into another PHP script and, with its output add CSS with media=print?

Phil

LordShryku

No, on the same page, just link in the print style sheet. The media specifies what it controls. media="screen" says to display this css on the screen and media="print" says to use this css when printing. Like so:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
  <title>Blah</title>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=iso-8859-1" />
  <meta http-equiv="content-script-type" content="text/javascript" />
  <meta http-equiv="content-style-type" content="text/css" />
[b]  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="/styles/blue.css" title="Blue" />
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="/styles/print.css" />[/b]
</head>
<body>