[RESOLVED] AJAXprint labels from same page as display

jrough

The users have to print pages and pages of labels, one page at a time.
I have a form that creates the labels and displays the labels.There is a print button that sends the rows on each page via FTP, to the printer.

I have a form to search to display the required labels, but the print button doesn't get submitted when the form gets submitted. It just prints 25 labels per page.

There is a text response from the printer_test.php page that tells me if the FTP connection happened or not. I'd like to capture that text on the display page and not change locations. I have the 'print this page' button inside the form tags but they are separate functions. I put the printFromHere() AJAX function in the 'Print from Here' button in the html. When I just clicked on the print button it did not change locations but I did not get any response text. Unfortunately I can't check the printer until Monday. If I could get any php errors that would be nice also. The print_test.php page has error reporting turned on.

thanks,

PRINT button
echo "<div><input type=\"button\" name=\"print\" value=\"Print this page\" ONCLICK=\"document.location='print_test.php'; 'printFromHere()';\"/></div>";
echo"<INPUT type='text' name='dyn' value=''>";
echo "</form>";

function printFromHere()
{
    var xhr;
    try {  xhr = new ActiveXObject('Msxml2.XMLHTTP');   }
    catch (e)
    {
        try {   xhr = new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLHTTP');    }
        catch (e2)
        {
          try {  xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();     }
          catch (e3) {  xhr = false;   }
        }
     }

xhr.onreadystatechange  = function()
{
     if(xhr.readyState  == 4)
     {
          if(xhr.status  == 200)
              document.ajax.dyn="Received:"  + xhr.responseText;
          else
             document.ajax.dyn="Error code " + xhr.status;
     }
};

   xhr.open(GET, "http://My.IP.ADDRESS/print_test.php",  true);
   xhr.send(null);
}

jrough

I revised my script. All it has to do is call the print_test.php page from the display page when the 'print this page'button is clicked. I don't have the call to the function printFromHere() in the button input html right because it doesn't call the function. What I want is the when the print button is clicked I want it to the call the printFromHere() javascript function .

I have a var $response in the print_test.php page that I would like returned to the the display page in the <div id='printer_reponse'> </div> along with any XML responses. I know how to send a value to the print_test.php page but I don't know how to send a var back to get it displayed on the page within that div? Thanks,

function printFromHere(){
var xhr = document.forms[0].search_zonenm.value;
                if ( window.XMLHttpRequest ) {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
		  xhr=new XMLHttpRequest();
		}else{ // code for IE6, IE5
		  xhr=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
		}
    xhr.onreadystatechange  = function()
    {
         if(xhr.readyState  == 4)
         {
              if(xhr.status  == 200)
                  document.getElementById.printer_response ="Received:"  + xhr.responseText;
              else
                 document.getElementById.printer_response ="Error code " + xhr.status;
         }
    };
   xhr.open(GET, "print_test.php",  true);
   xhr.send(null);   

}

echo "<div id='printbutton'><input type=\"button\" name=\"print\" value=\"Print this page\" id='printbutton' 'printFromHere()';\"/></div>";
//unlink('template.prn');
echo "<div id='printer_response'>";

echo "</div>";

jrough

I revised the script again but it still does not call the AJAX function printFromHere()???
I would also like to get the response text back in the div "printer_response".
Also, is there a way to get a variable from the php page test_print.php back to the <div>printer_response </div>??
thanks,

echo "<td><div id='printbutton'><input type=\"button\" name=\"print\" value=\"Print this page\" id='printbutton' onClick=\"printFromHere();\"/></div></td>";

echo "</tr>";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td><div id='printer_response'>";
echo "</form>";

function printFromHere(){

This is still not resolved I marked it resolved in error.