controlling the lines displayed using a html report from scratch

tamayo

hi, i'm developing an app using php, i wrote the reports from scratch; one of the reports consist in display a kind of contract that has variable length, like this:

LEGAL REPORT

charlie brown, 27 years old decides to sell this object to....
...... blas bla bla bla
....
......blas bla bla
.....
.....

Sign
Charlie Brown

so, my problem is that some times if the body of the report is too long, the sign is printed in other page and that is not ok; all data is populated from an mysql database.

to print this report i just use the option file>print that belown to the browser, so basically the print process was not coded by me, i decided to use the print built in browser function.

so, my questions are:

how can I control the max lines displayed (for example lines<75, and if there is greater than send a line break and then the rest of the lines will printed in another page, how can I do this?
is it possible to send raw data directly to the printer using php?

regards

sneakyimp

CSS supports print control. I can't say I understand it but perhaps you might:
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-page/#page-breaks

johanafm

tamayo;10994813 wrote:
2. is it possible to send raw data directly to the printer using php?

Yes you can, assuming your server is connected to the printer in question. But do note that this information would be sent from the server to the printer, and in most cases that would not be a printer anywhere near the user...

tamayo;10994813 wrote:
1. how can I control the max lines displayed (for example lines<75, and if there is greater than send a line break and then the rest of the lines will printed in another page, how can I do this?

Have you tried braking out the signature from the rest of the contents and putting it in an element with fixed position placed at the bottom of the page and setting an equally high bottom margin for the contents?