Re: [PHP] Printing
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Jim Giner jim.gi...@albanyhandball.com wrote: My first attempt to print something to a printer. I actually just went ahead and tried this from my website: $hdl = printer_open(); printer_write($hdl,This is my printed page); printer_write($hdl,This is line 1); printer_write($hdl,This is line 2); printer_write($hdl,This is line 3); printer_close($hdl); The error I got was: Fatal error: Call to undefined function printer_open() in . Reading in the manual I find the following conflicting statements: 1) These functions are only available under Windows 9.x, ME, NT4 and 2000. They have been added in PHP 4.0.4. 2) No external libraries are needed to build this extension. 3) This » PECL extension is not bundled with PHP. Windows users must enable php_printer.dll inside of php.ini in order to use these functions. A DLL for this PECL extension is currently unavailable. See also the building on Windows section. I'm not sure what all those tidbits of information are telling me. Are they outdated? Is there some other chapter in the manual I should read? I only looked in Printer. FWIW - I'm running windows xp on my client. My host runs Apache and 2.2.21 and PHP 5.3.6. My question is: Is there something I (me!) have to do to get printing to function in my domain's PHP install? It is PECL extension not bundled by default - www.php.net/manual/en/printer.installation.php -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing
Add extension=php_printer.dll in php.ini? Will adding that line install the extension? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:05 PM, Jim Giner jim.gi...@albanyhandball.com wrote: Add extension=php_printer.dll in php.ini? Will adding that line install the extension? It will enable the extension. Install = compile + enable. It will not work if you don't have the DLL. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Jim Giner jim.gi...@albanyhandball.com wrote: and where do I get the dll? That was my original question. The documentation didn't tell me anything other than it had to be enabled. - Original Message - From: Nilesh Govindarajan cont...@nileshgr.com To: Jim Giner jim.gi...@albanyhandball.com Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 10:42 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] Printing On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:05 PM, Jim Giner jim.gi...@albanyhandball.com wrote: Add extension=php_printer.dll in php.ini? Will adding that line install the extension? It will enable the extension. Install = compile + enable. It will not work if you don't have the DLL. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com I can't tell you much on this, because I don't use windows. You have to get the source at http://pecl.php.net/printer and compile it. I don't know the procedure, etc. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing
Nilesh Govindarajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote in message news:CAPo3nobqHPTH5V+0RqsRsQ0vDAne7V4s1Nc0dB12Gb=akws...@mail.gmail.com... On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Jim Giner jim.gi...@albanyhandball.com wrote: and where do I get the dll? That was my original question. The documentation didn't tell me anything other than it had to be enabled. - Original Message - From: Nilesh Govindarajan cont...@nileshgr.com To: Jim Giner jim.gi...@albanyhandball.com Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 10:42 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] Printing On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:05 PM, Jim Giner jim.gi...@albanyhandball.com wrote: Add extension=php_printer.dll in php.ini? Will adding that line install the extension? It will enable the extension. Install = compile + enable. It will not work if you don't have the DLL. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com I can't tell you much on this, because I don't use windows. You have to get the source at http://pecl.php.net/printer and compile it. I don't know the procedure, etc. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com Now that is some new information! Thanks for the pointer - I'll read up on it. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing
I can't tell you much on this, because I don't use windows. You have to get the source at http://pecl.php.net/printer and compile it. I don't know the procedure, etc. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com That was a short trip. Clicked on the link for documentation and it takes me right back to the php manual pages that I'd already read. Clicked on the link to download the latest and it's a dead link. Does anyone print from their php websites?? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Printing
If I am not mistaken, that is only for printing ON the SERVER... not on the client. If you're printing, then you're trying to print to a locally connected printer on your server. PHP runs server side, and therefore doesn't know anything about your locally attached printers. I did notice that you started a new thread about printing from PDF's, and if you're trying to create a document to print on your client machine, then creating a PDF is much easier. http://fpdf.org Steven Staples -Original Message- From: Jim Giner [mailto:jim.gi...@albanyhandball.com] Sent: January 5, 2012 10:55 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Printing I can't tell you much on this, because I don't use windows. You have to get the source at http://pecl.php.net/printer and compile it. I don't know the procedure, etc. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com That was a short trip. Clicked on the link for documentation and it takes me right back to the php manual pages that I'd already read. Clicked on the link to download the latest and it's a dead link. Does anyone print from their php websites?? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1901 / Virus Database: 2109/4724 - Release Date: 01/05/12 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing PDF
On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 10:36:30 -0500 Steve Staples sstap...@mnsi.net wrote: Hi! I have an app that needs to be created, and it is all running on linux. I am sure I shoulnd't really write it using PHP, but it's kinda what I know, and am familiar with... so I am thinking about doing with PHP. Anyway, for simplicity sake, i am creating a pdf through php (no problems there) and it needs to be printed. I've never done printing on linux, but is there an easy way to send the pdf print job via command lines to the local (or network) printer? a friend of mine said postscript or cups, but I am not familiar with them, so I thought I would ask you GURU's here :) thank in advance! Steve You could use the lpr command. Info here : http://www.marksanborn.net/linux/printing-from-the-linux-command-line/ Greg -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing PDF
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:36:30AM -0500, Steve Staples wrote: Hi! I have an app that needs to be created, and it is all running on linux. I am sure I shoulnd't really write it using PHP, but it's kinda what I know, and am familiar with... so I am thinking about doing with PHP. Anyway, for simplicity sake, i am creating a pdf through php (no problems there) and it needs to be printed. I've never done printing on linux, but is there an easy way to send the pdf print job via command lines to the local (or network) printer? a friend of mine said postscript or cups, but I am not familiar with them, so I thought I would ask you GURU's here :) The big problem here is that the site is on the server and the printer is on the client (most likely). Normally if you provide a link to a PDF in a webpage, the user/client downloads that PDF and the browser tries to open it in whatever program it thinks is good for that (like XPDF under Linux). The program in which it opens the PDF will have an option to print the file. I've been printing invoices, checks and reports out of my corporate system for years this way. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing PDF
On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 11:49 -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:36:30AM -0500, Steve Staples wrote: Hi! I have an app that needs to be created, and it is all running on linux. I am sure I shoulnd't really write it using PHP, but it's kinda what I know, and am familiar with... so I am thinking about doing with PHP. Anyway, for simplicity sake, i am creating a pdf through php (no problems there) and it needs to be printed. I've never done printing on linux, but is there an easy way to send the pdf print job via command lines to the local (or network) printer? a friend of mine said postscript or cups, but I am not familiar with them, so I thought I would ask you GURU's here :) The big problem here is that the site is on the server and the printer is on the client (most likely). Normally if you provide a link to a PDF in a webpage, the user/client downloads that PDF and the browser tries to open it in whatever program it thinks is good for that (like XPDF under Linux). The program in which it opens the PDF will have an option to print the file. I've been printing invoices, checks and reports out of my corporate system for years this way. Paul actually... it is a localized app (it should be more of a C++ or Java (or even Python), but I know PHP more weller than the others... and there is also a few other things they want... so right now, it will be on the local machine, but down the road, it will be on a server, but it is all on the local intranet, so the printers will be accessible. this is not a world app, just internal. I can create the PDF's no problem, it is just how to send the created pdf to the printer to print (it is a label printer, printing 3x5 labels) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing PDF
On 29 December 2010 17:24, Steve Staples sstap...@mnsi.net wrote: I can create the PDF's no problem, it is just how to send the created pdf to the printer to print (it is a label printer, printing 3x5 labels) What type of printer? Some printers require their own language and won't have any sort of PS, PCL, Esc/2 or GDI support. I've worked with industrial printers which take strings of plain text to do page layout/description. You load template layouts into the printer and can use them. Completely useless under normal circumstances. If the printer is something like an Epson TM-L90 (thermal label printer with barcode support), then sending it a PDF isn't possible as it doesn't have PS support. It is much easier to send it the string of codes to have the barcode generated within the label. On Windows, the drivers deal with all of this stuff. I've no idea on Unix. The exact model of the printer would help. -- Richard Quadling Twitter : EE : Zend @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing PDF
On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 17:36 +, Richard Quadling wrote: On 29 December 2010 17:24, Steve Staples sstap...@mnsi.net wrote: I can create the PDF's no problem, it is just how to send the created pdf to the printer to print (it is a label printer, printing 3x5 labels) What type of printer? Some printers require their own language and won't have any sort of PS, PCL, Esc/2 or GDI support. I've worked with industrial printers which take strings of plain text to do page layout/description. You load template layouts into the printer and can use them. Completely useless under normal circumstances. If the printer is something like an Epson TM-L90 (thermal label printer with barcode support), then sending it a PDF isn't possible as it doesn't have PS support. It is much easier to send it the string of codes to have the barcode generated within the label. On Windows, the drivers deal with all of this stuff. I've no idea on Unix. The exact model of the printer would help. I am currently unaware of the printer model, I am mostly working at building a quote for them. I suppose I should get the make/models of what they are going to be using... and hope to hell that they are compatible. I do know that the printer has a custom formatted label, so I hope that there is some drivers or wahtever availble to linux that i can send the PDF to it to print... looks like this will be some trial and error (err... research and development?). The printing is the only real trivial part of the whole thing. maybe i should just make this all a greenscreen app, using windows .bat scripting :) thanks for all your insight, and once i get some more information, and after googleing some, if i have MORE questions, i'll be back!! hope everyone's holidays (if you celebrated any over the last few weeks) were good, and the new year treats you well! Steve -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing PDF
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Steve Staples sstap...@mnsi.net wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 17:36 +, Richard Quadling wrote: On 29 December 2010 17:24, Steve Staples sstap...@mnsi.net wrote: I can create the PDF's no problem, it is just how to send the created pdf to the printer to print (it is a label printer, printing 3x5 labels) What type of printer? Some printers require their own language and won't have any sort of PS, PCL, Esc/2 or GDI support. I've worked with industrial printers which take strings of plain text to do page layout/description. You load template layouts into the printer and can use them. Completely useless under normal circumstances. If the printer is something like an Epson TM-L90 (thermal label printer with barcode support), then sending it a PDF isn't possible as it doesn't have PS support. It is much easier to send it the string of codes to have the barcode generated within the label. On Windows, the drivers deal with all of this stuff. I've no idea on Unix. The exact model of the printer would help. I am currently unaware of the printer model, I am mostly working at building a quote for them. Welcome to being a software developer. I suppose I should get the make/models of what they are going to be using... and hope to hell that they are compatible. I do know that the printer has a custom formatted label, so I hope that there is some drivers or wahtever availble to linux that i can send the PDF to it to print... looks like this will be some trial and error (err... research and development?). The printing is the only real trivial part of the whole thing. . -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing PDF
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:24:14PM -0500, Steve Staples wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 11:49 -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:36:30AM -0500, Steve Staples wrote: Hi! I have an app that needs to be created, and it is all running on linux. I am sure I shoulnd't really write it using PHP, but it's kinda what I know, and am familiar with... so I am thinking about doing with PHP. Anyway, for simplicity sake, i am creating a pdf through php (no problems there) and it needs to be printed. I've never done printing on linux, but is there an easy way to send the pdf print job via command lines to the local (or network) printer? a friend of mine said postscript or cups, but I am not familiar with them, so I thought I would ask you GURU's here :) The big problem here is that the site is on the server and the printer is on the client (most likely). Normally if you provide a link to a PDF in a webpage, the user/client downloads that PDF and the browser tries to open it in whatever program it thinks is good for that (like XPDF under Linux). The program in which it opens the PDF will have an option to print the file. I've been printing invoices, checks and reports out of my corporate system for years this way. Paul actually... it is a localized app (it should be more of a C++ or Java (or even Python), but I know PHP more weller than the others... and there is also a few other things they want... so right now, it will be on the local machine, but down the road, it will be on a server, but it is all on the local intranet, so the printers will be accessible. this is not a world app, just internal. I can create the PDF's no problem, it is just how to send the created pdf to the printer to print (it is a label printer, printing 3x5 labels) I have heard of (and seen) some Javascript code which can be embedded in a PDF to make it print without the need for what I described. But I don't recall where I saw it. Might have been on this list, so you could check the archives. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing....
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 16:43, Steve Staples sstap...@mnsi.net wrote: Ok, here is an interesting one... I am building an application, that basically listens for input on 2 ip addresses (not a problem there)... then it does a bunch of stuff, puts info to a terminal window (again, i dont think this will be an issue)... but then once the user says yep... print i need to be able to connect to a networked printer, and print the label... the printer will be accessable to the server (the server will be linux based), so I just need to connect, and send data to it... is this possble?? Of course. Check into CUPS. Here, specifically, are some command-line options: http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/options.html I've done this multiple times myself. I may even still have some PHP code lying around. I'll try to take a look for it if you need it, but I highly doubt you'll have any issues. -- /Daniel P. Brown Dedicated Servers, Cloud and Cloud Hybrid Solutions, VPS, Hosting (866-) 725-4321 http://www.parasane.net/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Dan Shirah mrsqua...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, Could someone please point me in the right direction for printing files through PHP? I already have my application setup so that it creates documents and saves them to a folder. How would I go about printing all of the files in the folder via PHP? I've looked into the Print functions in the manual ( http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.printer.php) but this does not seem to be the right thing to use to print documents that already exist. Thanks, Dan I would suggest sending a PDF to the client and allowing the client to handle the rest. -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat
Re: [PHP] Printing
On Dec 17, 2008, at 2:57 PM, Dan Shirah wrote: Hello all, Could someone please point me in the right direction for printing files through PHP? I already have my application setup so that it creates documents and saves them to a folder. How would I go about printing all of the files in the folder via PHP? I've looked into the Print functions in the manual ( http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.printer.php) but this does not seem to be the right thing to use to print documents that already exist. Do you want to print this on your office printer or on the website users printer? If you are looking for away to print it on their printer, why not just grab all the files that need to be printed, make a PDF of it, and then use the browsers print feature? -- Jason Pruim japr...@raoset.com 616.399.2355
RE: [PHP] Printing
[snip] Could someone please point me in the right direction for printing files through PHP? I already have my application setup so that it creates documents and saves them to a folder. How would I go about printing all of the files in the folder via PHP? I've looked into the Print functions in the manual ( http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.printer.php) but this does not seem to be the right thing to use to print documents that already exist. [/snip] Does it save them to a folder on the server? Or does it save them on the client? If it is on the server then the server would have to send the docs to a printer queue. If it is on the client PHP cannot really do anything about. PHP cannot force the client to print but it could send the docs to the client once a request has been made. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing
Do you want to print this on your office printer or on the website users printer? If you are looking for away to print it on their printer, why not just grab all the files that need to be printed, make a PDF of it, and then use the browsers print feature? -- Jason Pruim japr...@raoset.com 616.399.2355 I want it to print to the users local printer. Basically the user has a form and based on their search criteria they will get multiple results. Next to each result I have a checkbox that the user will use to select the documents they want to print. Once they have selected everything they want to print, they click on a Print Selection link. The checkboxes all have the same name but different dynamically assigned values, so once they click to print, an array of values for the checkbox name is passed to my next page. I have a for () loop on the next page that extracts each individual value and uses it in a query to extract information and build a pdf which is automatically output to a file. Once a PDF has been generated I want to send it to the users printer to be printed.
Re: [PHP] Printing
Does it save them to a folder on the server? Or does it save them on the client? If it is on the server then the server would have to send the docs to a printer queue. If it is on the client PHP cannot really do anything about. PHP cannot force the client to print but it could send the docs to the client once a request has been made. Yes, it saves the created documents to a folder on the server. Since any user could request to print the same document I first check to see if the document already exists. If it does exist I naturally want to skip the creation process and just print it and move on to the next selection. I have another process that clears out this folder once every 24 hours so it doesn't accumulate a massive store of files.
Re: [PHP] Printing
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Dan Shirah mrsqua...@gmail.com wrote: Do you want to print this on your office printer or on the website users printer? If you are looking for away to print it on their printer, why not just grab all the files that need to be printed, make a PDF of it, and then use the browsers print feature? -- Jason Pruim japr...@raoset.com 616.399.2355 I want it to print to the users local printer. Basically the user has a form and based on their search criteria they will get multiple results. Next to each result I have a checkbox that the user will use to select the documents they want to print. Once they have selected everything they want to print, they click on a Print Selection link. The checkboxes all have the same name but different dynamically assigned values, so once they click to print, an array of values for the checkbox name is passed to my next page. I have a for () loop on the next page that extracts each individual value and uses it in a query to extract information and build a pdf which is automatically output to a file. Once a PDF has been generated I want to send it to the users printer to be printed. You can't, the best you can do is send the PDF down and let the user choose to do with it what they will -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat
Re: [PHP] Printing
You can't, the best you can do is send the PDF down and let the user choose to do with it what they will -- Bastien So you think I should try and look into a way to have FPDF append each document to the already created document, and once all pages have been added to the PDF force it back to the user to open in the broswer?
Re: [PHP] Printing
I did something similar, but it was some work I did for a company and the application was an internal application that used PHP and a Java applet to send the file to a workers local printer since it cant be accomplished by PHP itself. On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Dan Shirah mrsqua...@gmail.com wrote: You can't, the best you can do is send the PDF down and let the user choose to do with it what they will -- Bastien So you think I should try and look into a way to have FPDF append each document to the already created document, and once all pages have been added to the PDF force it back to the user to open in the broswer?
Re: [PHP] Printing
Dan Shirah wrote: Hello all, Could someone please point me in the right direction for printing files through PHP? On I project I recently worked on, I used php to read a template file (rtf) and makes some changes and then save it in a folder on the server. This was a windows machine and I used a small program called batchprintpro. It simply monitors a directory and prints any new file that should appear. Its quite configurable and seems stable enough to print a few hundred documents per week. Clive -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing Web Page
Thanks to all. That worked well. I just had to insert the stylesheet link on each of a couple dozen pages, but it worked. My pages were a little complicated and took some work - and could probably use more but I'll deal with that as I go. Some samples I found were very simple print stylesheets, others were longer but written from scratch. I started with my previous screen stylesheet and modified it. That seemed to work pretty well. Patrick -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing Web Page
On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 08:01 -0500, Patrick Moloney wrote: Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 22:35 +0100, Frank Arensmeier wrote: 6 nov 2008 kl. 21.21 skrev Patrick Moloney: I'd like to enable my users to print individual web pages from their browser. If they simply select the browser print button they don't get all the text that is displayed in a scrolling text area. The web page is static html and css, in a php file. This might be a good starting point. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/printyourway //frank link href=print.css media=print type=text/css rel=stylesheet/ Then set out your CSS in print.css to lay out the page without scrolling areas. Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk Thanks all! So, to state the obvious (to you all) the solution is to address my original question through CSS. That sounds good. Ashly, your post is helpful. What is the next step, to display the page on screen using the new stylesheet, then rely on the user to use the browsers print button? Thanks, Patrick Easier than that even, the browser automatically selects this stylesheet when the user presses the print button (or you issue a window.print() from javascript) because it recognises the media=print attribute. You can use the media type for other browsers too, like audio, print, screen, projectors, etc. Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing Web Page
Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 22:35 +0100, Frank Arensmeier wrote: 6 nov 2008 kl. 21.21 skrev Patrick Moloney: I'd like to enable my users to print individual web pages from their browser. If they simply select the browser print button they don't get all the text that is displayed in a scrolling text area. The web page is static html and css, in a php file. This might be a good starting point. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/printyourway //frank link href=print.css media=print type=text/css rel=stylesheet/ Then set out your CSS in print.css to lay out the page without scrolling areas. Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk Thanks all! So, to state the obvious (to you all) the solution is to address my original question through CSS. That sounds good. Ashly, your post is helpful. What is the next step, to display the page on screen using the new stylesheet, then rely on the user to use the browsers print button? Thanks, Patrick -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Printing Web Page
[snip] I'd like to enable my users to print individual web pages from their browser. If they simply select the browser print button they don't get all the text that is displayed in a scrolling text area. The web page is static html and css, in a php file. [/snip] There are some very good articles on setting up a CSS for printing web pages if you search Google. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing Web Page
6 nov 2008 kl. 21.21 skrev Patrick Moloney: I'd like to enable my users to print individual web pages from their browser. If they simply select the browser print button they don't get all the text that is displayed in a scrolling text area. The web page is static html and css, in a php file. This might be a good starting point. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/printyourway //frank -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing Web Page
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 22:35 +0100, Frank Arensmeier wrote: 6 nov 2008 kl. 21.21 skrev Patrick Moloney: I'd like to enable my users to print individual web pages from their browser. If they simply select the browser print button they don't get all the text that is displayed in a scrolling text area. The web page is static html and css, in a php file. This might be a good starting point. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/printyourway //frank link href=print.css media=print type=text/css rel=stylesheet/ Then set out your CSS in print.css to lay out the page without scrolling areas. Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing date out of array
I would suggest the time() value to be saved in your database. Since
the date() function can use that as the second parameter and you can
use any format date() allows. Or make your own.
Ólafur Waage
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2008/8/31 Michael S. Dunsavage [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
This is my date array:
$months = array (1 = 'January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May',
'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November',
'December');
This is my date select in the form:
echo 'select name=day';
for ($day = 1; $day = 31; $day++) {
echo option value=\$day\$day/option\n;
}
echo '/select';
echo 'select name=year';
$year = 2008;
while ($year = 2020) {
echo option value=\$year\$year/option\n;
$year++;
}
echo '/select';
This is how it submits to mysql:
Now, when I submit it to mysql, it's all in mm-dd- format.
When I submit it to an e-mail, I'd like it to me Month-dd-. How
could I do this?
Would it be easier to pull the date from mysql and break it down
somehow? And if so how would I do that?
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Re: [PHP] Printing date out of array
Michael S. Dunsavage schreef:
This is my date array:
$months = array (1 = 'January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May',
'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November',
'December');
you want, if you ask me, to get you head round the following functions.
http://php.net/set_locale
http://php.net/time
http://php.net/date
http://php.net/mktime
more generally, check out this section of the manual (and let it
be known, dates are tricky buggers ... they can bite):
http://php.net/manual/en/book.datetime.php
additionally, check out the UNIX_TIMESTAMP() function in MySQL, which
will give you a unix timestamp (of all things!) that you can use to
generate formatted date strings easily in php using date()
This is my date select in the form:
echo 'select name=day';
for ($day = 1; $day = 31; $day++) {
echo option value=\$day\$day/option\n;
}
echo '/select';
echo 'select name=year';
$year = 2008;
while ($year = 2020) {
echo option value=\$year\$year/option\n;
$year++;
}
echo '/select';
This is how it submits to mysql:
Now, when I submit it to mysql, it's all in mm-dd- format.
When I submit it to an e-mail, I'd like it to me Month-dd-. How
could I do this?
Would it be easier to pull the date from mysql and break it down
somehow? And if so how would I do that?
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Re: [PHP] Printing Question
On Jan 26, 2008 1:03 PM, Peter Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whats the best way to do formatted printing via php? You could try PDFlib(). Draw your reports to landscape formated pdf's and print them. Oh and I'm aiming for a unix/windows outcome. pdf is platform independent. I hope this is what you meant. Floor -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing Question
On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 15:19 +0100, Floor Terra wrote:
On Jan 26, 2008 1:03 PM, Peter Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whats the best way to do formatted printing via php?
You could try PDFlib().
Draw your reports to landscape formated pdf's and print them.
Oh and I'm aiming for a unix/windows outcome.
pdf is platform independent.
I hope this is what you meant.
I recently had a request from a client to create a button on client
search results that would generate page that could print off a mailing
envelope for each selected client. They wanted to run a print batch on a
couple of thousand clients. So I used HTML, CSS. Specifically to force
page breaks while printing I used the following:
div style=page-break-after: always/div
Note that you can't use a span for the above css attribute. Then for
various dimensions of the envelope and return address etc, I used CSS
attributes defined by the inches unit. I'll admint I whipped it up quick
and dirty using tables (sorry, tables are just simpler for generating
quick layouts than divs are... talk to the hand smelly purists :)
So something like the following:
table.envelopeLayout
{
width: 13in;
}
table.envelopeLayout td.returnAddress
{
height: 3in;
}
So this looked nice in the browser, but when they went to print it got
all borked when they told IE to use landscape mode. So I told them to
upgrade to a real browser (Firefox (though I prefer Opera :)). After
that they told me it worked perfectly. So, to make the point... you do't
need PDF, HTML will do. BTW, I did this all remotely and someone on-site
did a couple of print tests to give me feedback. I never even got to see
their new fancy schmancy printer :)
I've done other print stuff via the browser before too... such as state
driving certificates for presentation in court. Never had a problem once
the layout and print configuration were refined.
Cheers,
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Re: [PHP] Printing within functions
Obviously, these are over-simplified functions, but you get the point. Nonetheless, do you tend to print things within functions or pass the results back and then print them? I understand it may depend on the current context, but which way do you lean and is one way or the other considered *better practice*? I'd say 98% of the time I return a value back so I can verify the result. You could verify the result within the function, but that would cause the function to become less portable, and most of the time I use the same function in more than one place, or try to. Jake -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing MSSQL-Query ERROR description in PHP
karthi keyan wrote: Hi, Is there any way to print the reason why the query has been failed, like the way MySQL-PHP has mysql_error()? Regards, KARTHIK. - Download prohibited? No problem! CHAT from any browser, without download. Is this what you are looking for? http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.mssql-get-last-message.php -- Jim Lucas Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V by William Shakespeare -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing MSSQL-Query ERROR description in PHP
karthi keyan wrote: Is there any way to print the reason why the query has been failed, like the way MySQL-PHP has mysql_error()? Hmm, where to look for information on the MSSQL functions in PHP. Hey, I got a crazy plan. Let's try looking in the MSSQL part of the PHP manual. Come navigate there with me: http://php.net/mssql Let's scroll down to find the function list. Ahh, there is it. Hmm, what we got here the... bind, close, connect, data_seek. Nope, none of those. Let's keep going. Oooh, do you see what I see? mssql_get_last_message - that sounds promising. What does the description say? Returns the last message from the server. Well, if there's been an error in the last query we tried to run it makes sense that the last message from the server would contain the error message. Hey, how about this. You try that and let us know whether you learnt something from this lesson. -Stut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing MSSQL-Query ERROR description in PHP
On Mon, June 4, 2007 11:02 pm, karthi keyan wrote: Is there any way to print the reason why the query has been failed, like the way MySQL-PHP has mysql_error()? Gee, I dunno. You think there might be? Maybe it's in the manual?! http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.mssql.php There are only 40 functions there. You are already using at least 5 of those, if you have anything working at all. 20 of them are so obviously named that they cannot possibly be what you want. Did you put even 10 SECONDS into this before posting?! -- Some people have a gift link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] printing out this nested array
On Monday 14 May 2007 18:41, Don Don wrote: am thinking echo $arrayName['Errors']['ErrorId']; // should display the value but it does not Anyone wants to shed more light ? echo $arrayName['Errors'][0]['ErrorId']; // ?? -- Crayon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] printing out this nested array
Don Don wrote: I am having a bit of a confusion printing the values of an array i have. When i print_r this array it contains the following: Array ( [ValueA] = ValueA [ValueB] = valueB [TestValue] = TestValue [Errors] = Array ( [0] = Array ( [ErrorId] = AD27JH [ErrorMsg] = OK ) ) ) I can get the values of ValueA, ValueB and TestValue but I am a bit confused at getting the values of ErrorId and ErrorMsg. e.g. echo $arrayName['ValueA']; // will display the value contained there am thinking echo $arrayName['Errors']['ErrorId']; // should display the value but it does not Anyone wants to shed more light ? $arrayName['Errors'][0]['ErrorId'] Cheers, Rich -- Zend Certified Engineer http://www.corephp.co.uk Never trust a computer you can't throw out of a window -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] printing out this nested array
oops ! [0] cheers Richard Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don Don wrote: I am having a bit of a confusion printing the values of an array i have. When i print_r this array it contains the following: Array ( [ValueA] = ValueA [ValueB] = valueB [TestValue] = TestValue [Errors] = Array ( [0] = Array ( [ErrorId] = AD27JH [ErrorMsg] = OK ) ) ) I can get the values of ValueA, ValueB and TestValue but I am a bit confused at getting the values of ErrorId and ErrorMsg. e.g. echo $arrayName['ValueA']; // will display the value contained there am thinking echo $arrayName['Errors']['ErrorId']; // should display the value but it does not Anyone wants to shed more light ? $arrayName['Errors'][0]['ErrorId'] Cheers, Rich -- Zend Certified Engineer http://www.corephp.co.uk Never trust a computer you can't throw out of a window -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php - Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search.
RE: [PHP] printing out this nested array
Don Don wrote: I am having a bit of a confusion printing the values of an array i have. When i print_r this array it contains the following: Array ( [ValueA] = ValueA [ValueB] = valueB [TestValue] = TestValue [Errors] = Array ( [0] = Array ( [ErrorId] = AD27JH [ErrorMsg] = OK ) ) ) I can get the values of ValueA, ValueB and TestValue but I am a bit confused at getting the values of ErrorId and ErrorMsg. e.g. echo $arrayName['ValueA']; // will display the value contained there am thinking echo $arrayName['Errors']['ErrorId']; // should display the value but it does not Anyone wants to shed more light ? Cheers echo $arrayName['Errors'][0]['ErrorId']; -B -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] printing out this nested array
Don Don wrote: I am having a bit of a confusion printing the values of an array i have. When i print_r this array it contains the following: Array ( [ValueA] = ValueA [ValueB] = valueB [TestValue] = TestValue [Errors] = Array ( [0] = Array ( [ErrorId] = AD27JH [ErrorMsg] = OK ) ) ) I can get the values of ValueA, ValueB and TestValue but I am a bit confused at getting the values of ErrorId and ErrorMsg. e.g. echo $arrayName['ValueA']; // will display the value contained there am thinking echo $arrayName['Errors']['ErrorId']; // should display the value but it does not Anyone wants to shed more light ? Cheers - 8:00? 8:25? 8:40? Find a flick in no time with theYahoo! Search movie showtime shortcut. suggestion for next time. echo a pre or plaintext tag out before you echo your array next time and you will then see the nesting of the arrays Doing that would have made the answer to this question very obvious -- Jim Lucas Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Unknown -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] printing out this nested array
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Re: [PHP] printing out this nested array
Jim Lucas wrote: suggestion for next time. echo a pre or plaintext tag out before you echo your array next time and you will then see the nesting of the arrays Doing that would have made the answer to this question very obvious You could also benefit from installing this very handy little bit of code into your PHP project: http://krumo.sourceforge.net/ Cheers, Rich -- Zend Certified Engineer http://www.corephp.co.uk Never trust a computer you can't throw out of a window -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] printing a one-to-many relationship
give this a shot
html
headtitleitems and notes/title/head
body
?php
$user=feeds;
$host=localhost;
$password=password;
$database = feeds;
$connection = mysql_connect($host,$user,$password) or die (couldn't connect to
server);
$db = mysql_select_db($database,$connection) or die (Couldn't select
database);
$query = SELECT * FROM contacts, px_items WHERE contacts.id=px_items.id ORDER BY
px_items.id DESC;
$result = mysql_query($query) or die (Couldn't execute query.);
$title = '';
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
if ( $title != $row['title'] ) {
$title = $row['title'];
echo h2{$title}/h2;
}
echonbsp;nbsp;{$id} - {$content} - {$timestamp} - {$notes} - .
a href=\{$link}\{$link}/abr;
}//while
?
/body
/html
This should do the trick
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Re: [PHP] printing a one-to-many relationship
$last_entry = 'an extremely unlikely entry';
while (list($entry, $note) = mysql_fetch_row($entries)){
if ($entry != $last_entry){
echo $entry;
$last_entry = $entry;
}
echo $note;
}
On Wed, April 25, 2007 1:35 pm, Thufir wrote:
There's a one-to-many relationship between px_items.id and
contacts.id, and I
want a printout of some data from each.
I want to print out the query results px_items.id field once and once
only, but
the contacts.notes field many times, as there could be many entries.
Right now it prints out each row, which is workable for now, but could
get
annoying. I'm trying for something like
entry one
note a
note b
note c
entry two
note a
entry three
notb a
note b
Here's my schema and code:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]#
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /var/www/html/items_notes.php -n
1 html
2 headtitleitems and notes/title/head
3 body
4 ?php
5 $user=feeds;
6 $host=localhost;
7 $password=password;
8 $database = feeds;
9
10 $connection = mysql_connect($host,$user,$password)
11 or die (couldn't connect to server);
12 $db = mysql_select_db($database,$connection)
13 or die (Couldn't select database);
14
15
16 $query = SELECT * FROM contacts, px_items WHERE
contacts.id=px_items.id ORDER BY px_items.id DESC;
17
18 $result = mysql_query($query)
19 or die (Couldn't execute query.);
20
21 while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
22 {
23 extract ($row);
24
25 echo bigbigb;
26 echo $id;
27 echo /b/big/big;
28
29 echo br;
30 echo $title;
31
32 echo br;
33 echo $content;
34 echo br;
35
36 echo br;
37 echo $timestamp;
38 echo br;
39
40 echo br;
41 echo $notes;
42 echo br;
43
44 echo a href=\;
45 echo $link;
46 echo \;
47 echo $link;
48 echo /a;
49
50 echo brbr;
51
52 }//while
53 ?
54 /body
55 /html
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]#
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]#
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]#
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mysql -u feeds -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 25 to server version: 5.0.27
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.
mysql use feeds;
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A
Database changed
mysql show tables;
+-+
| Tables_in_feeds |
+-+
| contacts|
| px_feeds|
| px_items|
+-+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)
mysql describe contacts;
+---+---+--+-+---+---+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+---+---+--+-+---+---+
| id| int(11) | YES | MUL | NULL | |
| timestamp | timestamp | NO | | CURRENT_TIMESTAMP | |
| notes | longtext | YES | | NULL | |
+---+---+--+-+---+---+
3 rows in set (0.07 sec)
mysql describe px_items;
+---+--+--+-+---++
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra
|
+---+--+--+-+---++
| id| int(11) | NO | PRI | NULL |
auto_increment |
| feed_id | int(11) | NO | MUL | 0 |
|
| timestamp | timestamp| NO | | CURRENT_TIMESTAMP |
|
| link | text | YES | | NULL |
|
| title | varchar(250) | YES | | NULL |
|
| content | text | YES | | NULL |
|
| dcdate| text | YES | | NULL |
|
| dccreator | text | YES | | NULL |
|
| dcsubject | text | YES | | NULL |
|
| read | tinyint(4) | YES | MUL | NULL |
|
+---+--+--+-+---++
10 rows in set (0.00 sec)
mysql quit
Bye
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]#
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# date
Wed Apr 25 19:30:38 BST 2007
[EMAIL
Re: [PHP] printing special characters in PHP
Antonio Bassinger wrote:
Dear ALL,
I've an binary file with special (non-printable) characters including ''
'/' ''. I retrieve this file from the database, into a variable
those 3 chars are not non-printable (the fact that I see them in this email is
proof enough.
$binaryFILE.
I then copy the content to a temporary file, opened with handle $handle :
if (!fwrite($handle, $binaryFILE)) {
echo Failed to copy $bname...;
}
else
{
echo Success;
}
The file copies to a file on the filesystem correctly. However, if I try to
print out the characters of this file on a browser, using
echo $binaryFILE;
the output isn't the same. The characters '' and '' and anything included
within is not printed.
I tried printing line by line, using:
$binaryMS = explode(,$binaryMMS);
foreach ($binaryFILE as $ii)
{
echo $ii;
}
However, no change in result.
Do I print character by character? I shall appreciate any pointers on this
problem.
either do 'view source' in your browser or pass the string through the
htmlentities()
function - the reason you don't see stuff in between the LT and GT chars has to
do
with the markup used for HTML tags think about it for a second :-)
Many Thanks
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Re: [PHP] printing special characters in PHP
Antonio Bassinger a écrit :
Dear ALL,
I've an binary file with special (non-printable) characters including ''
'/' ''. I retrieve this file from the database, into a variable
$binaryFILE.
$binaryMS = explode(,$binaryMMS);
foreach ($binaryFILE as $ii)
{
echo $ii;
try this :
echo htmlspecialchars($ii);
N F
}
However, no change in result.
Do I print character by character? I shall appreciate any pointers on
this
problem.
Many Thanks
Antonio
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Re: [PHP] printing special characters in PHP
At 10:16 AM + 7/11/06, Antonio Bassinger wrote:
Dear ALL,
I've an binary file with special (non-printable) characters including ''
'/' ''. I retrieve this file from the database, into a variable
$binaryFILE.
I then copy the content to a temporary file, opened with handle $handle :
if (!fwrite($handle, $binaryFILE)) {
echo Failed to copy $bname...;
}
else
{
echo Success;
}
The file copies to a file on the filesystem correctly. However, if I try to
print out the characters of this file on a browser, using
echo $binaryFILE;
the output isn't the same. The characters '' and '' and anything included
within is not printed.
I tried printing line by line, using:
$binaryMS = explode(,$binaryMMS);
foreach ($binaryFILE as $ii)
{
echo $ii;
}
However, no change in result.
Do I print character by character? I shall appreciate any pointers on this
problem.
Many Thanks
Antonio
Antonio:
The reason why you are not seeing the characters is that they are being
grabbed-up by the browser as html code. In other words, you are injecting html
into your web page.
Take a look at this:
http://www.weberdev.com/htmlentities
Now, pass your content through this function and then display.
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Re: [PHP] Printing in php
weetat wrote: Hi all , I am using PHP 4.3.2 and MYSQL . I need to do printing function in php . Basically , in my client web page , it will display the list of items on the html page. And i have a print button , so that the user can print the html page to their local printer. Any way how to do this in PHP ? I believe someone already told you, I guess we can't do it in PHP, so why not in JavaScript Sorry I don't mean to take you belittle, but I write this completely for easy to look for others: a href=”#” action=window.print();return falsePrint this page/a Best Regards BBC **o0o** -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
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weetat wrote: Hi all , I am using PHP 4.3.2 and MYSQL . I need to do printing function in php . Basically , in my client web page , it will display the list of items on the html page. And i have a print button , so that the user can print the html page to their local printer. Any way how to do this in PHP ? Thanks alternate method - CSS media print. -- life is a game... so have fun. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing in php
weetat wrote: Hi all , I am using PHP 4.3.2 and MYSQL . I need to do printing function in php . Basically , in my client web page , it will display the list of items on the html page. And i have a print button , so that the user can print the html page to their local printer. Any way how to do this in PHP ? No, but you can in javascript. window.print(); -- Postgresql php tutorials http://www.designmagick.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing in php
On Mon, July 3, 2006 3:53 am, weetat wrote: I am using PHP 4.3.2 and MYSQL . I need to do printing function in php . Basically , in my client web page , it will display the list of items on the html page. And i have a print button , so that the user can print the html page to their local printer. Any way how to do this in PHP ? How many times on this very list have you been told that PHP runs on the server? Think about it. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing with php
On 5/3/06, Mace Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am working on a project that creates invoices. It will allow the client to print out these invoices after they have been created. Something that I have always noticed is that when you print form the internet you always get the site address and other info on the print out. Is there a way to eliminate this? I just want the invoice to print. Thanks Has nothing to do with PHP (or any code for that matter), it's all in the browser settings. You can't do a thing about it. If you're really concerned, convert it to a PDF that the user downloads and prints. HTH, John W p.s. Ok technically I think that if you're in an PC IE-only environment you can use ActiveX or something else to control this, but even so I'm categorically against controlling a user's local settings/prefs/etc. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing with php
Couple of things you can try.. 1. If you have control of the browsers being used, there may be a setting to turn off the address printing (I seem to remember something like that.. but don't remember what browser it was). 2. CSS2 has some print control functionality that might help 3. (more PHP relevant answer) Why not create PDFs out of your invoices and initiate a print of that instead of a web page? Check out the stock PDF functions or libraries like FPDF and PDFLib. Good luck! -TG = = = Original message = = = Hi I am working on a project that creates invoices. It will allow the client to print out these invoices after they have been created. Something that I have always noticed is that when you print form the internet you always get the site address and other info on the print out. Is there a way to eliminate this? I just want the invoice to print. Thanks ___ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing library in PHP ?
Hi Steve, This seems to be a good alternative. I've found pdflib($), ezPDF (dead?) e this fpdf as different ways to generate pdf. One drawback is that I'd have to construct all my documents 'by hand'. For trully dynamic this is no problem but for those that only differs at the name of the client that would represent too much work for a little gain. After some research it seems that there is a tool called docbook that allows me to convert it's format (a XML based?) into a lot of things, PDF included. Well, I have two ways now: - use a pdf library for those dynamic reports - convert my word documents into docbook (using an editor), put some placeholders and using PHP to replace the placeholders with actual data (such as name, price) and call docbook to generate the pdf. - rm On 3/14/06, Steve Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently migrating an application originally written with Delphi to PHP. Everything is going fine except the printing of the reports that does not produce the same visual result (i.e does not look the same or has some aligmment issues). We generate all of our printed reports using FPDF (http://www.fpdf.org) to generate PDF files. Its very flexible, can do must of what you are aksing for, and unlike some alternatives, its free.PDFs are going to be the easiest way to get total control of the output. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing library in PHP ?
I am currently migrating an application originally written with Delphi to PHP. Everything is going fine except the printing of the reports that does not produce the same visual result (i.e does not look the same or has some aligmment issues). We generate all of our printed reports using FPDF (http://www.fpdf.org) to generate PDF files. Its very flexible, can do must of what you are aksing for, and unlike some alternatives, its free.PDFs are going to be the easiest way to get total control of the output. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] printing keys and values of array
I agree with the previous responder, foreach() is the way to go. Here's the doc
page:
http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.foreach.php
To get the keys, use the examples that are use $key = $value.
Assuming your array is in $infoArr, you'd do this:
foreach ($infoArr as $category = $data) {
echo $category:$databr\n;
}
Also, if you ever needed to get just the keys or just the values of an array,
you can use:
array_keys()
and
array_values()
Both return an array.
Good luck!
-TG
= = = Original message = = =
Hi
i need some help with printing an array, i would like to print the
keys and the values of them
example :
if i have an array like that
[EXTENDED] = Array
(
[RTCode] = CASE395
[ManuPartNum] = 1BRA1ACFB
[Colour] = WHITE
[Compatibility] = (ATX/E ATX)
[PowerSupply] = YES
[PowerSupplySize] = redundant 337W2
[ExtDriveBays] = 3 x 5.25 1 x 3.5
[IntDriveBays] = 6 x 5.25
[USBPortsFront] = no
[FirewirePortsFront] = no
[AudioPortsFront] = no
[CaseFan] = 8cm FAN2 12cm FAN1 P/S2
[NumCaseFans] = 5
[FreeCaseFanPoints] = No
[Material] = Stainless steel
[Window] = No
[Packaging] = Retail
[Warranty] = 24 months for the PSU
[BoxContents] = Manual
[CartonHeight] = 735mm
[CartonWidth] = 285mm
[CartonDepth] = 585mm
[ItemsPerCarton] = 1
[CartonWeight] = 1.6kg
[EAN] =
[BoxWeight] =
[ItemHeight] =
[ItemWidth] =
[ItemDepth] =
)
and i like to print it this way
RTCode:CASE395
ManuPartNum] :1BRA1ACFB
Colour] :WHITE
Compatibility :(ATX/E ATX)
PowerSupply :YES
PowerSupplySize:redundant 337W2
ExtDriveBays:3 x 5.25 1 x 3.5
IntDriveBays:6 x 5.25
USBPortsFront:no
FirewirePortsFront:no
AudioPortsFront:no
CaseFan:8cm FAN2 12cm FAN1 P/S2
NumCaseFans:5
FreeCaseFanPoints] = No
Material :Stainless steel
Window :No
Packaging:Retail
Warranty:24 months for the PSU
BoxContents:Manual
CartonHeight:735mm
CartonWidth:285mm
CartonDepth:585mm
ItemsPerCarton:1
CartonWeight:1.6kg
EAN:
BoxWeight:
ItemHeight:
ItemWidth:
ItemDepth:
can anyone tell me plz how to do that ?
any help would be appreciated
thanks in advance
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Re: [PHP] printing keys and values of array
read about foreach function. Zareef Ahmd - Original Message - From: Ahmed Abdel-Aliem [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: php-general@lists.php.net Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 7:58 PM Subject: [PHP] printing keys and values of array Hi i need some help with printing an array, i would like to print the keys and the values of them example : if i have an array like that [EXTENDED] = Array ( [RTCode] = CASE395 [ManuPartNum] = 1BRA1ACFB [Colour] = WHITE [Compatibility] = (ATX/E ATX) [PowerSupply] = YES [PowerSupplySize] = redundant 337W2 [ExtDriveBays] = 3 x 5.25 1 x 3.5 [IntDriveBays] = 6 x 5.25 [USBPortsFront] = no [FirewirePortsFront] = no [AudioPortsFront] = no [CaseFan] = 8cm FAN2 12cm FAN1 P/S2 [NumCaseFans] = 5 [FreeCaseFanPoints] = No [Material] = Stainless steel [Window] = No [Packaging] = Retail [Warranty] = 24 months for the PSU [BoxContents] = Manual [CartonHeight] = 735mm [CartonWidth] = 285mm [CartonDepth] = 585mm [ItemsPerCarton] = 1 [CartonWeight] = 1.6kg [EAN] = [BoxWeight] = [ItemHeight] = [ItemWidth] = [ItemDepth] = ) and i like to print it this way RTCode:CASE395 ManuPartNum] :1BRA1ACFB Colour] :WHITE Compatibility :(ATX/E ATX) PowerSupply :YES PowerSupplySize:redundant 337W2 ExtDriveBays:3 x 5.25 1 x 3.5 IntDriveBays:6 x 5.25 USBPortsFront:no FirewirePortsFront:no AudioPortsFront:no CaseFan:8cm FAN2 12cm FAN1 P/S2 NumCaseFans:5 FreeCaseFanPoints] = No Material :Stainless steel Window :No Packaging:Retail Warranty:24 months for the PSU BoxContents:Manual CartonHeight:735mm CartonWidth:285mm CartonDepth:585mm ItemsPerCarton:1 CartonWeight:1.6kg EAN: BoxWeight: ItemHeight: ItemWidth: ItemDepth: can anyone tell me plz how to do that ? any help would be appreciated thanks in advance -- Ahmed Abdel-Aliem Web Developer www.SafariStudio.net +20101108551 registered Linux user number 382789 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php PHP Expert Consultancy in Development http://www.indiaphp.com Yahoo! : consultant_php MSN : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] printing keys and values of array
-Original Message- i need some help with printing an array, i would like to print the keys and the values of them example : I use the dump_array posted by examancer at the following address: http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10213508 when debugging, it should work well for you. Brady -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] printing keys and values of array
Ahmed Abdel-Aliem wrote:
...
and i like to print it this way
RTCode:CASE395
...
foreach($array as $key=$value){echo $key.':'.$value;}
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Re: [PHP] Printing to a buffer
On Sun, November 13, 2005 8:20 am, Marcus Bointon wrote: On 13 Nov 2005, at 00:17, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: seem to do that. I just tried application/text since I use application/pdf for other applications. Whatever it's giving the user the ability to do, it's probably because the browser doesn't recognise the (invalid) MIME-Type. Quite - it's right up there with 'application/force-download'. If you want to suggest (the final choice is not yours to make) that a browser might download something instead of displaying it, set an appropriate content-disposition header instead of setting the wrong type. E. It may not be my final choice whether they download or not, but if a browser doesn't treat: application/octet-stream as a download, and only as a download, then that browser is pretty broken. Letting the user configure their browser for that MIME type to be opened by an application is just plain wrong for a browser, by specification. If you find a browser that lets you configure application/octet-stream to be opened with a specific application, then file a bug report with whomever wrote that browser. All the other johnny-come-lately hacks from Redmond to 'force' downloads are highly suspect and non-portable, and should be avoided if you want to keep your hair. You can't rely on Content-disposition ... filename either, so you either make the URL end in the filename you want as the default, or you can count on some browsers using some other filename. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing to a buffer
On Sun, November 13, 2005 1:53 pm, Marcus Bointon wrote: On 13 Nov 2005, at 19:27, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: Many thanks! I did not know that MIME-Type. Change duly made! You're not suggesting that you actually set the MIME-Type to application/force-download, are you? I think he is. I've called the MIME-type police and they'll be round later. Todd, I think you should read this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/ q260519/ There's a PHP example just before the user notes here: http:// www.php.net/header Marcus -- Marcus Bointon Synchromedia Limited: Putting you in the picture [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.synchromedia.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing to a buffer
On Sun, November 13, 2005 4:55 pm, Todd Cary wrote: Because this was just a test of what will be many print lines. The original application used a file to hold the data and upon request by the user, it was emailed. But with my client's shared server, files cannot be opened...a pain. If you have a better solution, I am open to other ideas. Switch hosts? :-^ PS I'll say it again: Content-disposition will give you grief from older browsers. Content-type: application/octet-stream will just work To get the filename default prompt, tack the filename onto the end of your URL. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing to a buffer
On 14 Nov 2005, at 19:01, Richard Lynch wrote: It may not be my final choice whether they download or not, but if a browser doesn't treat: application/octet-stream as a download, and only as a download, then that browser is pretty broken. Letting the user configure their browser for that MIME type to be opened by an application is just plain wrong for a browser, by specification. If you find a browser that lets you configure application/octet-stream to be opened with a specific application, then file a bug report with whomever wrote that browser. There's no such spec for browsers per se (which is why they vary so much) - they are just HTTP clients. I can think of a perfectly reasonable situation where I would want a plugin to handle application/octet-stream - say I'm pulling some arbitrary binary data and while I'm debugging, an in-browser hex dump could be very useful. The other thing is that I may be being forced to use that 'wrong' MIME type to work around bad implementations of content- disposition... I know that's not a common situation, but there should be nothing preventing me from doing it. There are browsers that don't do downloads at all (I've written some), there are others that do nothing but downloads (I use Interarchy for just that). I could offer a similar opinion about the browsers that have odd implementations of content-disposition. Marcus -- Marcus Bointon Synchromedia Limited: Putting you in the picture [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.synchromedia.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing to a buffer
On 13 Nov 2005, at 00:17, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: seem to do that. I just tried application/text since I use application/pdf for other applications. Whatever it's giving the user the ability to do, it's probably because the browser doesn't recognise the (invalid) MIME-Type. Quite - it's right up there with 'application/force-download'. If you want to suggest (the final choice is not yours to make) that a browser might download something instead of displaying it, set an appropriate content-disposition header instead of setting the wrong type. Marcus -- Marcus Bointon Synchromedia Limited: Putting you in the picture [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.synchromedia.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing to a buffer
Marcus - Many thanks! I did not know that MIME-Type. Change duly made! Todd Marcus Bointon wrote: On 13 Nov 2005, at 00:17, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: seem to do that. I just tried application/text since I use application/pdf for other applications. Whatever it's giving the user the ability to do, it's probably because the browser doesn't recognise the (invalid) MIME-Type. Quite - it's right up there with 'application/force-download'. If you want to suggest (the final choice is not yours to make) that a browser might download something instead of displaying it, set an appropriate content-disposition header instead of setting the wrong type. Marcus -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing to a buffer
Todd Cary wrote: Marcus - Many thanks! I did not know that MIME-Type. Change duly made! You're not suggesting that you actually set the MIME-Type to application/force-download, are you? Todd Marcus Bointon wrote: On 13 Nov 2005, at 00:17, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: seem to do that. I just tried application/text since I use application/pdf for other applications. Whatever it's giving the user the ability to do, it's probably because the browser doesn't recognise the (invalid) MIME-Type. Quite - it's right up there with 'application/force-download'. If you want to suggest (the final choice is not yours to make) that a browser might download something instead of displaying it, set an appropriate content-disposition header instead of setting the wrong type. Marcus -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing to a buffer
On 13 Nov 2005, at 19:27, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: Many thanks! I did not know that MIME-Type. Change duly made! You're not suggesting that you actually set the MIME-Type to application/force-download, are you? I think he is. I've called the MIME-type police and they'll be round later. Todd, I think you should read this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/ q260519/ There's a PHP example just before the user notes here: http:// www.php.net/header Marcus -- Marcus Bointon Synchromedia Limited: Putting you in the picture [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.synchromedia.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing to a buffer
Just before the police knocked at my door, I made a few changes! ? ob_start(); print This is a testbr; $buf = ob_get_contents(); $len = strlen($buf); ob_end_clean(); header(Content-type: text/plain); header(Content-Length: $len); header(Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=sfyc.html); print($buf); ? Todd Marcus Bointon wrote: On 13 Nov 2005, at 19:27, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: Many thanks! I did not know that MIME-Type. Change duly made! You're not suggesting that you actually set the MIME-Type to application/force-download, are you? I think he is. I've called the MIME-type police and they'll be round later. Todd, I think you should read this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/ q260519/ There's a PHP example just before the user notes here: http:// www.php.net/header Marcus -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing to a buffer
call me stupid, but why don't you do it like this: $buf = This is a testbr; header(Content-type: text/plain); header(Content-Length: .strlen($buf)); header(Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=sfyc.html); echo $buf; ?? looks easier to me... no output buffering required... Todd Cary wrote: Just before the police knocked at my door, I made a few changes! ? ob_start(); print This is a testbr; $buf = ob_get_contents(); $len = strlen($buf); ob_end_clean(); header(Content-type: text/plain); header(Content-Length: $len); header(Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=sfyc.html); print($buf); ? Todd Marcus Bointon wrote: On 13 Nov 2005, at 19:27, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: Many thanks! I did not know that MIME-Type. Change duly made! You're not suggesting that you actually set the MIME-Type to application/force-download, are you? I think he is. I've called the MIME-type police and they'll be round later. Todd, I think you should read this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/ q260519/ There's a PHP example just before the user notes here: http:// www.php.net/header Marcus -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing to a buffer
Because this was just a test of what will be many print lines. The original application used a file to hold the data and upon request by the user, it was emailed. But with my client's shared server, files cannot be opened...a pain. If you have a better solution, I am open to other ideas. Todd M. Sokolewicz wrote: call me stupid, but why don't you do it like this: $buf = This is a testbr; header(Content-type: text/plain); header(Content-Length: .strlen($buf)); header(Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=sfyc.html); echo $buf; ?? looks easier to me... no output buffering required... Todd Cary wrote: Just before the police knocked at my door, I made a few changes! ? ob_start(); print This is a testbr; $buf = ob_get_contents(); $len = strlen($buf); ob_end_clean(); header(Content-type: text/plain); header(Content-Length: $len); header(Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=sfyc.html); print($buf); ? Todd Marcus Bointon wrote: On 13 Nov 2005, at 19:27, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: Many thanks! I did not know that MIME-Type. Change duly made! You're not suggesting that you actually set the MIME-Type to application/force-download, are you? I think he is. I've called the MIME-type police and they'll be round later. Todd, I think you should read this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/ q260519/ There's a PHP example just before the user notes here: http:// www.php.net/header Marcus -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing to a buffer
Todd Cary wrote: My client's new shared server does not allow printing to a file, so I want my print statement to print to a buffer, then I'll send it to the user via Headers. This does not work since print does no go to the buffer, or at least appears not to: I get the errors from the header statements; ? ob_start; You're missing some parentheses on the ob_start function. I think you meant to write: ob_start(); print This is a testbf; You probably meant br in that string too. $buf = ob_get_contents(); $len = strlen($buf); ob_end_clean(); header(Content-type: application/text); application/text isn't a MIME-Type, is it? Do you mean text/plain? header(Content-Length: $len); header(Content-Disposition: inline; filename=Sfyc.html); print($buf); ? Todd -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Printing to a buffer
-Original Message- From: Jasper Bryant-Greene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] application/text isn't a MIME-Type, is it? Do you mean text/plain? [/snip] Or maybe text/html? Sent: 12 November 2005 22:46 To: Todd Cary Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Printing to a buffer Todd Cary wrote: My client's new shared server does not allow printing to a file, so I want my print statement to print to a buffer, then I'll send it to the user via Headers. This does not work since print does no go to the buffer, or at least appears not to: I get the errors from the header statements; ? ob_start; You're missing some parentheses on the ob_start function. I think you meant to write: ob_start(); print This is a testbf; You probably meant br in that string too. $buf = ob_get_contents(); $len = strlen($buf); ob_end_clean(); header(Content-type: application/text); application/text isn't a MIME-Type, is it? Do you mean text/plain? header(Content-Length: $len); header(Content-Disposition: inline; filename=Sfyc.html); print($buf); ? Todd -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php __ NOD32 1.1284 (2005) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing to a buffer
Yup! It was the missing parentheses! Works as planned. Many thanks The application/text gives the user the ability; text/plain does not seem to do that. I just tried application/text since I use application/pdf for other applications. Todd Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: Todd Cary wrote: My client's new shared server does not allow printing to a file, so I want my print statement to print to a buffer, then I'll send it to the user via Headers. This does not work since print does no go to the buffer, or at least appears not to: I get the errors from the header statements; ? ob_start; You're missing some parentheses on the ob_start function. I think you meant to write: ob_start(); print This is a testbf; You probably meant br in that string too. $buf = ob_get_contents(); $len = strlen($buf); ob_end_clean(); header(Content-type: application/text); application/text isn't a MIME-Type, is it? Do you mean text/plain? header(Content-Length: $len); header(Content-Disposition: inline; filename=Sfyc.html); print($buf); ? Todd -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing to a buffer
Todd Cary wrote: Yup! It was the missing parentheses! Works as planned. Many thanks The application/text gives the user the ability; text/plain does not The ability to...? seem to do that. I just tried application/text since I use application/pdf for other applications. Whatever it's giving the user the ability to do, it's probably because the browser doesn't recognise the (invalid) MIME-Type. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] printing from php
On Fri, October 28, 2005 6:17 am, Tom Cruickshank wrote: I've been reading up on printing out documents using PHP (using Printer functions calls in the php manual) I'm using a Linux and/or FreeBSD operating system to run my php code on (in apache). However, I am surfing these pages using a Windows XP machine. Has anyone ever tried having a print button (or link) in php that would make Whatever page is being displayed being printed with the above scenario? How might you of gone about it to make it work? (the Linux or FreeBSD box is not configured to have a printer on it, shared or local, does that make a difference? ) If you are trying to get the print-out on a printer tied to the server, PHP is maybe going to be involved. If you want it printed to a printer tied to the client (browser) PHP is long-gone and has nothing to do with it by the time you click on Print button. There are a bunch of JavaScript print buttons/links/scripts you can find with Google to help. If you need your HTML to be made printer-friendly BEFORE you print it, PHP and http://php.net/pdflib may help. Or is it http://php.net/libpdf? I can never remember. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] printing from php
don't post a new question to an existing thread - it lessens your exposure! Tom Cruickshank wrote: Hello, I've been reading up on printing out documents using PHP (using Printer functions calls in the php manual) I'm using a Linux and/or FreeBSD operating system to run my php code on (in apache). However, I am surfing these pages using a Windows XP machine. Has anyone ever tried having a print button (or link) in php that would make Whatever page is being displayed being printed with the above scenario? How might you of gone about it to make it work? (the Linux or FreeBSD box is not configured to have a printer on it, shared or local, does that make a difference? ) either you let the client (browser) print the page - this has nothing to do with php OR you let the server print 'something' (based on a specific request from the user - i.e. he clicked on 'print' link or something) in which case you will _need_ to have access to a printer from the server (i.e. it needs to have a printer configured) basically if the server 'has' no printer it can't print. Would appreciate any feedback. Thanks! Tom -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing \n and \r to the screen
On Wed, August 24, 2005 8:33 am, Dotan Cohen wrote: I seem to be having trouble with \n and \r in variables. I write my code on a linux box, and the server is linux. So I should always have \n\r, no? Is there a way the I could print $variable; and have it show me the /n and /r 's ? I tried with a srt_replace() on /n and on /r, but they do not get replaced. I also tried escaping the backslash, then double escaping that as was suggested somewhere in the php.net/manual, then triple escaping! Windows uses \r\n Linux uses \n Mac uses \r Depending on what tools you use to read/write/create the files, and where the data comes from, it's possible that you have any of those formats. This is especially true of FORM data from a TEXTAREA. I frequently do this: $text = $_POST['text']; $text = str_replace(\r\n, \n, $text); $text = str_replace(\r, \n, $text); //Now I *know* it's in Linux newline format. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing \n and \r to the screen
If you're reading this text from a file, and then splitting it into seperate lines, then I personally think you should leave this to the built-in file() function. On 8/24/05, Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to be having trouble with \n and \r in variables. I write my code on a linux box, and the server is linux. So I should always have \n\r, no? Is there a way the I could print $variable; and have it show me the /n and /r 's ? I tried with a srt_replace() on /n and on /r, but they do not get replaced. I also tried escaping the backslash, then double escaping that as was suggested somewhere in the php.net/manual, then triple escaping! Thanks ahead of time for any insight. Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/183/etheridge_melissa.php Etheridge,Melissa Song Lyrics -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing \n and \r to the screen
On 8/25/05, Richard Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Windows uses \r\n Linux uses \n Mac uses \r Depending on what tools you use to read/write/create the files, and where the data comes from, it's possible that you have any of those formats. This is especially true of FORM data from a TEXTAREA. I frequently do this: $text = $_POST['text']; $text = str_replace(\r\n, \n, $text); $text = str_replace(\r, \n, $text); //Now I *know* it's in Linux newline format. Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Thanks, Richard. Jochem pointed that out earlier. I really should have googled this first, but I was certain that what I _knew_ was right. That happens sometimes. Now get that Uranus branch up! Dotan http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/395/papa_roach.php Papa Roach Song Lyrics -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Printing \n and \r to the screen
[snip] I seem to be having trouble with \n and \r in variables. I write my code on a linux box, and the server is linux. So I should always have \n\r, no? Is there a way the I could print $variable; and have it show me the /n and /r 's ? I tried with a srt_replace() on /n and on /r, but they do not get replaced. I also tried escaping the backslash, then double escaping that as was suggested somewhere in the php.net/manual, then triple escaping! Thanks ahead of time for any insight. [/snip] Print to the screen? You could enclose them in single quotes '\n\r'. Are you tring to make these work in a web browser? Because if so it'll never happen, they do not show up. (but you can see the result when you view source) Anything output to the browser to represent this should have a br or br / -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Printing \n and \r to the screen
[snip] I seem to be having trouble with \n and \r in variables. I write my code on a linux box, and the server is linux. So I should always have \n\r, no? Is there a way the I could print $variable; and have it show me the /n and /r 's ? I tried with a srt_replace() on /n and on /r, but they do not get replaced. I also tried escaping the backslash, then double escaping that as was suggested somewhere in the php.net/manual, then triple escaping! Thanks ahead of time for any insight. [/snip] I use \r\n on my winbox but maybe it doen't matter, though I though I had a problem a few years back when I inadvertently used \n\r by mistake. George -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing \n and \r to the screen
Dotan Cohen wrote: I seem to be having trouble with \n and \r in variables. I write my code on a linux box, and the server is linux. So I should always have you are mixing /n and \n etc etc - stop it :-) \n is a new line in linux \r is a new line in (older?) version of MacOS \r\nis a new line in Windoze try something along the lines of: ?php $string = \nthis is a test\r\nthis is a test\rthis is a test\nthis is a test; $finds = array(\n, \r); $repls = array( ***\\n*** , ***\\r*** ); echo str_replace($finds, $repls, $string); \n\r, no? Is there a way the I could print $variable; and have it show me the /n and /r 's ? I tried with a srt_replace() on /n and on /r, but they do not get replaced. I also tried escaping the backslash, then double escaping that as was suggested somewhere in the php.net/manual, then triple escaping! I get the impression you need to find out what the difference is between single and double quotes strings and how escape sequences differ/behave within them Thanks ahead of time for any insight. outsight, downsight, upsight, insideoutsight, roundaboutsight ... ignore me now - I'm feeling bored. Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/183/etheridge_melissa.php Etheridge,Melissa Song Lyrics -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing \n and \r to the screen
On 8/24/05, Jay Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I seem to be having trouble with \n and \r in variables. I write my code on a linux box, and the server is linux. So I should always have \n\r, no? Is there a way the I could print $variable; and have it show me the /n and /r 's ? I tried with a srt_replace() on /n and on /r, but they do not get replaced. I also tried escaping the backslash, then double escaping that as was suggested somewhere in the php.net/manual, then triple escaping! Thanks ahead of time for any insight. [/snip] Print to the screen? You could enclose them in single quotes '\n\r'. Are you tring to make these work in a web browser? Because if so it'll never happen, they do not show up. (but you can see the result when you view source) Anything output to the browser to represent this should have a br or br / I want to explode on newline in a text file, but explode(\n\r, $ducks) wasn't doing it, so I thought that it would be good if I could see where these ascaped characters are. I thought that Kate has a see [tab|space|newline|carrage return] checkbox, but that must have been in a different program. In Jochem's post I see the mistake that I made. I should have googled for that before I asked. The str_replace in that post worked, and now I see where I erred. Thanks. Dotan http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/106/cantrell_jerry.php Cantrell, Jerry Song Lyrics -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing
On Sat, April 2, 2005 9:03 am, Niels Riis Kristensen said: I am using a Unix machine (Mac) but can't find ways to print to my local printer. Plenty of information about printing from a PC, but none from a mac. Can that be, that you can't print from php to mac? First, get printing to work AT ALL on the machine. If your text editor or browser can't print, PHP ain't gonna be able to either, most likely. Next, see if you can figure out what command line is being used to make things print... Sometimes you can force an error (turn off the printer as you print) and get something to puke out on the screen or into /var/log/messages or... Finally, whatever that command line is, use http://php.net/exec to make it happen in PHP. You'll also need to be aware of the PHP User and what their permissions are -- Try to 'su' to that user in a terminal window and do the command to print from the command line. Oh yeah: Start with a dirt simple text file: test.txt -- Hello World If you can't get that to print, it's unlikely you'll get fancy stuff like PostScript to work... Though sometimes it goes the other way, and PS prints fine, but text refuses. Go figure. In all OSes, I find printer setup the most painful experience for something that virtually every normal user is supposed to be able to do this... WHY?! -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Printing
That is because Windoz, for all it's faults, provides a bit of an interface for applications to exercise some control over printed output, and even attempts to make it device independent. Don't know if Gnome, or other GUI's provide something, but if you write the output intended for a printer to a physical file and then post that file to your print spooler using a exec() function that should do the trick. http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php I suspect you would use the unix command to cause the file to be spooled to the printer as you would manually (I seem to recall an lpr command being involved, but don't trust my memory). This carries with it all the caviates about whether or not you know who your website visitors are, and what happens when multiple users try to trigger printing (who loads paper in the printer?). Another potential snag is, will you website user (usually nobody) have permission to print (execute the lpr command)? Unless gnome or kde is involved, don't know how you could detect your printer types, since your program will need to know which pcl (printer control language) is required. Good luck, Anyone have other solutions? Warren Vail -Original Message- From: Niels Riis Kristensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 8:03 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Printing Hi I am using a Unix machine (Mac) but can't find ways to print to my local printer. Plenty of information about printing from a PC, but none from a mac. Can that be, that you can't print from php to mac? Niels Riis Kristensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) NRK Group - Electronic Music Engraving - Webhosting - Dynamic Web design - E-Lists hosting -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing using php script CRON
Vern wrote: I get: # wget -O -q http://www.comp-wiz.com/index.html | lpr -P hp1300n What I wrote was wget -O -q - http://www.domain.com/file.php | lpr -P hp1300n You forgot - -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Printing using php script CRON
[snip] I hate to keep beating a dead horse, but this horse is not quite dead yet. I need to print a php script from a web site using CRON. I'm thinking something like this should work but I don't know enough about it to say that it would. I know that I can run a php script using CRON as such: lynx --dump http://yoursite.com/cronjob.php /dev/null Can I not output this data to a printer? [/snip] If you have a printer attached to the server from where the cron is running you might try lynx --dump http://yoursite.com/cronjob.php lpt1 or something similar. Not tested. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing using php script CRON
If you have a printer attached to the server from where the cron is running you might try lynx --dump http://yoursite.com/cronjob.php lpt1 or something similar. Not tested. Actually it's a netwotl printer and in order to print the job I need to type the following on the box: lpr -P hp1300n myfilename.txt So I'm not exctaly sure how I can do that. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing using php script CRON
On Tuesday 27 July 2004 20:33, Vern wrote: If you have a printer attached to the server from where the cron is running you might try lynx --dump http://yoursite.com/cronjob.php lpt1 or something similar. Not tested. Actually it's a netwotl printer and in order to print the job I need to type the following on the box: lpr -P hp1300n myfilename.txt So I'm not exctaly sure how I can do that. Try: lynx --dump http://yoursite.com/cronjob.php | lpr -P hp1300n -- Jason Wong - Gremlins Associates - www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design Hosting * Internet Intranet Applications Development * -- Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general -- /* Mene, mene, tekel, upharsen. */ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing using php script CRON
On Tuesday 27 July 2004 08:33 am, Vern wrote: Actually it's a netwotl printer and in order to print the job I need to type the following on the box: lpr -P hp1300n myfilename.txt So I'm not exctaly sure how I can do that This works great for me. Except that I use lp -d printername filename.txt instead of the command you're using. I can print to any printer that I set up in CUPS on the webserver. I do this from webpages so I'm sure you can get it to work with CRON. $filename = uniqid()..txt; $filehandle = fopen($filename,w); fwrite($filehandle, Hello World); fclose($filehandle); system(lpr -P hp1300n .$filename); James -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing using php script CRON
One would think this should be really simple but it's not. I need to retrieve the file somewhere on the internet. I read somewhere in order to read a php script's output you need to add the php command in front, as such: php http://yoursite.com/cronjob.php | lpr -P hp1300n however I am getting the following error: Status: 404 suggesting that the page doesn't exist, however it does. Is there something I am missing here? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Printing using php script CRON
[snip] One would think this should be really simple but it's not. I need to retrieve the file somewhere on the internet. I read somewhere in order to read a php script's output you need to add the php command in front, as such: php http://yoursite.com/cronjob.php | lpr -P hp1300n however I am getting the following error: Status: 404 suggesting that the page doesn't exist, however it does. Is there something I am missing here? [/snip] You are trying to run a PHP script on a remote site? Have a look at cURL http://www.php.net/curl -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing using php script CRON
I feel like I taking a hammer and well I'm sure you all know the feeling. cURL does help me to get the file and save the file somewhere locally, however printing a page like this gives me all the html code (i.e. html, etc) and I need the report that is being displayed to the browser in all it's glory (color, graphs and so forth). So somehow I need to simply have the output of this file converted to an image file of some some. You would think that there is and easy command from the command prompt that would allow you to do this. Am I incorrect? Do I have to rewrite this whole page to output to an image or pdf? Seems there should be an easier way. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing using php script CRON
You could try this: http://marginalhacks.com/Hacks/html2jpg/ Save the page as an image, and then run it through the printer. It does have some overhead though to get it done. Hope it helps, Ed On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Vern wrote: I feel like I taking a hammer and well I'm sure you all know the feeling. cURL does help me to get the file and save the file somewhere locally, however printing a page like this gives me all the html code (i.e. html, etc) and I need the report that is being displayed to the browser in all it's glory (color, graphs and so forth). So somehow I need to simply have the output of this file converted to an image file of some some. You would think that there is and easy command from the command prompt that would allow you to do this. Am I incorrect? Do I have to rewrite this whole page to output to an image or pdf? Seems there should be an easier way. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing using php script CRON
Seems to me that this needs XWindows or something install, am I incorrect? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing using php script CRON
Vern wrote: One would think this should be really simple but it's not. wget -O -q - http://www.domain.com/file.php | lpr -P hp1300n -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Printing using php script CRON
I get: # wget -O -q http://www.comp-wiz.com/index.html | lpr -P hp1300n --16:49:59-- http://www.comp-wiz.com/index.html = `-q' Resolving www.comp-wiz.com... done. Connecting to www.comp-wiz.com[207.234.154.95]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 22,011 [text/html] 100%[== ] 22,011 139.58K/sETA 00:00 16:49:59 (139.58 KB/s) - `-q' saved [22011/22011] lpr: stdin is empty, so no job has been sent. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
