Printing In PHP

glenelkins · September 29, 2006

Hi

Never actually had to do this before. I have setup a script to send an email out containing some information. as such

[code]
$body = "<body bgcolor='#23972C'>";
$body .= "Hello " . $name . ", ";
$body .= "Following is the information on one of our properties you requested. ";
$body .= "Kind Regards ";
$body .= "Connaught Estates <a href='http://www.connaughtestates.com'>http://www.connaughtestates.com</a> <hr width = '50%' color='white' align='left' height='1px'> " . $title . " ";
$body .= $image . " £" . $price . " " . $type . " " . $status . "";
$body .= " Address: " . $address . " Area: " . $area;
$body .= " Rental/Purchase: " . $rentalorpurchase;

if ($rentalperiod != "") {
$body .= " Rental Period: " . $rentalperiod;
}

$body .= " Bedrooms: " . $bedrooms . " Bathrooms: " . $bathrooms;
$body .= " " . $fulldescription;
$body .= "</body>";
[/code]

How would i get PHP to actually print this (to a printer) so that it prints the information and not the code itself?

glenelkins · September 29, 2006

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ToonMariner · September 29, 2006

you can't - the only thing you coudl do is use the javascript window.print(); command on the onload event of the body. This would need the users email agent to support js. Same could be done on a normal web page - BUT I would be very annoyed at something trying to print automatically without my input. I don't want to see warnings that I have tried to print when my printer is off - or that I have been charged 5p for printing something I didn't request when I am using a cluster and have to pay for printing....

I just don't want anything to print out automatically - I want control and that is teh case for the vast majority of users on the web.

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