Posted by Mikey on 09/05/05 22:06

Łukasz 'nostra' Wojciechowski wrote:

>W odpowiedzi na maila (18:09 - 5 września 2005):
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>>Hi
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>Hello
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>>I am using smarty with my php site, I know you can send a whole smarty
>>template page to a variable, is their any way i can easily print that
>>variable out. or am i going about this the wrong way.
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>Why don't you just make another template file witch would be more
>printer friendly (i.e. just formated text). You would take your
>compiled variable, parse it (threw away all img,swf etc.) and give it
>to print tpl.
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>Personaly I do it with CSS ... i just change my
>layout.css to layout_print.css with no backgrounds and black text. But
>images still remain.
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>You can even use XSL ... but it would
>require to redesign whole presentation part of your website. More info
>here: http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/
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If you are running on a Linux server (your e-mail is confusing as a
browser is client side and PHP cannot change what happens to the code
once it has been sent) then you can use html2ps to render and print a page.

HTH,

Mikey

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