Posting session data to the clipboard

cavey

Is there a way to echo/post registered session data to your clipboard?

Say I have a customer's account open, and their address if comprised of six or seven variables, is there a way to stick these in your clipboard with a button click, so they can be pasted quickly?

So say I have six session variables:

$firstname $lastname
$address
$city $state $zipcode

is there a way to POST those to the clipboard so the next time I right-click Paste it shows up as:

Bob Smith
221 N. Anderson St.
Seattle, WA 98001

If so, can it include formatting somehow, like line breaks? I guess if data could be posted to the clipboard somehow you could just concat a big long string huh?

NogDog

Not directly by PHP, since it's running on the web server and not on the client (assuming you're using it for a web application and not a CLI program). Possibly there is something clever you could do with JavaScript, having PHP write the data in question into the relevant JavaScript function on the page.

contrasites

I've never seen it done before, it may be a javascript that would do something like that, I'm interested to see if you come up with anything.

cavey

contrasites wrote:
I've never seen it done before, it may be a javascript that would do something like that, I'm interested to see if you come up with anything.

Say you're looking at the screen and all of your clients data is displayed, so the data is technically resident on your browser, the variables have pushed values to the browser... I am just thinking of an easy way to get the data to our shipping program, so you can print a label w/o having to copy/paste and all that. I'll noddle on it and bet I find a solution!

NogDog

http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/javascript/article.php/3458851