Output to print

[edude]

Hi again,

I have finished the basics of my website and now i am wondering to make an improvement: give the user the option to select the records from the output that she prefers, and then print them (maybe also giving the option of printing some fields and not others).
Well, as i have no idea about this, could someone give some recommendations on where to learn it (url, manual or whatever).

[_SuperString]

If you are using MySQL - check out the mysql specific function over at php.net.

[Blulagoon]

I think there are two things here, the option to print (presumably to a printer by a means other than using the browser's File|Print option) and the selection of fields to print.

For the first one, you might like to look at:
http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/ref.printer.php

As for choice of fields within records, maybe provide some radio buttons for default options such as All; Citation; Title, Author, Source; then reflect that in the select statement on the page processing the submission.

HTH - Blu