Re: "Email This Story" and "Print" Functions

on 30/05/03 6:36 PM, Jeffrey L. Fitzgerald (mailgroups@jlfx.com) wrote: > Thanks to Kevin, Monty and the others who helped with my earlier post... > > Anyone have experience with PHP based "Email This Story" and "Print This > Story" functions?? I am looking to add these along with a digital postcard > mailer. "Email this story" is a way of someone emailing the contents of a page, OR the URL of the page (more common) to a friend.... so all you need to do is know what page they're trying to email, collect the sender and recipient email address', and send a URL & short message with mail(). Look in the $_SERVER array for some values which will tell you the current URL & query string. "Print this page" can be as simple as an alternate style sheet, or a simplified way of presenting data on a page, which is printer-friendly. If you're pulling your main content out of databases or flat files, then it should be relatively easy to set a value in the URL ($_GET array) which toggles between a complex (regular) page layout, and a simple (print) layout. Think it through. Justin