[FX.php List] Bulk printing

[Jonathan Schwartz]

ggt,

There are no limits to the voids in my brain. ;-)

 From my vast(!) experience, the window.print command requires a 
button click  and/or I don't see how php would know how long to wait 
before proceeding to the next record w/o waiting for the previous 
print command to execute.

I would enjoy learning this for next time, but I am going with the 
re-created layout in FMP....this time.

At 8:57 AM +0100 11/27/06, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:
php is a serverside scripting language,
how on earth did you expect php to print on client side?


>I would do a foreach for all the registration forms,
>then do 1 include( './printableForm.php' ); for each record found
>and then do 1 javascript:window.print();
>
>ggt667
>
>2006/11/27, Jonathan Schwartz <jonathan at eschwartz.com>:
>>Thanks for the suggestions, Derrick, Steve and ggt,
>>
>>Just to clarify, there are two working modes for this project:
>>
>>1) The user registers online and then prints the resulting completed
>>form. This works fine with the javascript window_print function.
>>
>>2) To prepare for users who show up to the event without their
>>printed registration forms, I wanted to bulk print all the forms to
>>have on hand.  That's the step I am seeking. And that is where I
>>realize that PHP via the browser can not handle the job of looping
>>through 500 records and printing via a script.
>>
>>Dale just asked if the printing  was through the browser.  That's the
>>only way I know at the moment...except for PDF. Are there others?
>>
>>Derrick's idea of using webviewer crossed my mind and I might try it,
>>although I'm worried about wasting time when I know that just biting
>>the bullet and recreating the form in FMP layout is straight forward.
>>
>>By the way...the registration is for Little League, where we are
>>replacing a time-honored paper form process.
>>
>>Jonathan
>>
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