-----Original Message-----
From: John Monfort [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 5:03 PM
To: Grimes, Dean
Cc: 'Dan Koken'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [PHP] Printing Reports
>Have you been able to bypass the dialog box? That is, send the file
>directly to the printer, without the user's interaction?
Actually, I have never tried to bypass the dialog box. Around here, for
reports that first come to the screen in the browser, the user decides
whether or not they want to print. If they do, they click the print button
and then select their printer.
However, I have other reports that print automatically and I just use PHP
along with KSH to send them to the appropriate printers. Of course these
reports contain no HTML. The user selects which reports they want to print,
what printers they want them to go to and then submit the report selection
form. The system takes it from there.
Dean
Grimes,
> I do this a lot. If you want to use just the browser and server abilities
> without introducing the complexities of PDF/XML/XSLT and such, it is not
too
> hard. I have done PDF, Standard Text and HTML to the browser and I have
> printed directly to a printer from the server using PHP.
Have you been able to bypass the dialog box? That is, send the file
directly to the printer, without the user's interaction?
If so, then I would love to learn how you did it. I was trying to do that
with one of my projects, but couldn't. As far as I know, the browsers do
not allow that. But, I've been told you could do it via sockets...
Were you able to bypass the dialog box?
-john
> First, is the site a Corporate intranet where the server knows about all
of
> the shared printers connected to the network? Or, is the site accessed
over
> the internet? If it's a Corporate intranet then you can create reports and
> submit them to the appropriate spooler. On Unix this is easy. I'm not sure
> about Windows. You can gather a list of available printers and create a
> little form that allows the user to select which printer to send the
report
> to.
>
> If the site is over the internet then create the report in a separate
window
> that is divided into two frames. The top frame will consist of close and
> print buttons. The second will contain the report and a JavaScript
function
> that performs the printing. The print button in the top frame, when
pushed,
> will execute the print function in the bottom frame.
>
> The print function sets focus on the report and then executes
this.print().
> The print dialogue box will automatically pop up and the user can select
> their own printer along with number of copies, etc. If you use HTML you
can
> even set page breaks (in IE5 anyway).
>
> Have fun,
>
>
> Dean
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Koken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 5:00 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP] Printing Reports
>
>
> As a Newbe to PHP, I need to print reports. I'd like to stay away from
> PDF but will use it if necessary.
>
> In general, what seems to be the best way to print reports??????
>
> It would be nice when they ask for a report it would brint in the report
> window that allows them to select the printer, number of copies, print
> quality etc.
>
> Thanks for your help...
> Dan.
>
>
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