Re: howto send a whole smarty page to a printer

Łukasz 'nostra' Wojciechowski wrote:

W odpowiedzi na maila (18:09 - 5 września 2005):

Hi

Hello

I am using smarty with my php site, I know you can send a whole smarty template page to a variable, is their any way i can easily print that variable out. or am i going about this the wrong way.

Why don't you just make another template file witch would be more printer friendly (i.e. just formated text). You would take your compiled variable, parse it (threw away all img,swf etc.) and give it to print tpl. Personaly I do it with CSS ... i just change my layout.css to layout_print.css with no backgrounds and black text. But images still remain. You can even use XSL ... but it would require to redesign whole presentation part of your website. More info here: http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/ If you are running on a Linux server (your e-mail is confusing as a browser is client side and PHP cannot change what happens to the code once it has been sent) then you can use html2ps to render and print a page.

HTH, Mikey