RE: [PHP-DB] static or dynamic "printer-friendly" webpages?

2001-06-28 Thread Michael Rudel
Hi Shawna, ... the best (and professional) way are dynamic PDF's. Its a bit of work, but you can be sure that everyone can print them. You could create a PHP script that converts your dynamic web page into a static, printerfriendly PDF or you could try a pdf-printer, print the page to file and se

RE: [PHP-DB] static or dynamic "printer-friendly" webpages?

2001-06-28 Thread olinux
hmmm, let me think about this. unless you are crazy you will choose your to stay dynamic. Can you imagine keeping track of new records... "let's click the PF version so I can print this... What the hell! Shawna I can't print this damn thing. This link doesn't work. blah blah..." It only gets wors

Re: [PHP-DB] static or dynamic "printer-friendly" webpages?

2001-06-28 Thread Jason k Larson
I would recommend staying as dynamic as possible. To answer your question, yes, another simple template (one designed to be friendly to printers) would easily work to do what you need. PDF is an interesting option but a lot of work and the clients/customers would need to ensure having the proper

Re: [PHP-DB] static or dynamic "printer-friendly" webpages?

2001-06-28 Thread Markus Fischer
I use a method combining both; I first write a so-called 'print.php' which has the ability to write a outputted page to a disk cache on the disk. So pages are only generated the first time they're accessed; on second and further requests they're serverd directly from the cache (disk in my case).

Re: [PHP-DB] static or dynamic "printer-friendly" webpages?

2001-06-28 Thread Andreas D. Landmark
At 27.06.2001 23:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Question for all you php experts out there: > >My organization's website is based on mysql/php backend - 95% of the >webpages are generated dynamically using templates and database records. > >We have been asked to create "printer-friendly" versions o