[FX.php List] PHP question: Presenting the user with multiple pages from each result

[John Funk]

It seems I may have run full circle, my original plan was to have FileMaker
make the PDFs from an FM layout, but export to PDF is NOT supported on
FMServer, so I changed to a PHP / FM generated HTML page but now found out
having css / multiple pages is a web browser compatibility problem.
For simplicity, I am thinking of creating the HTML labels one by one with a
javascript print button and a next button to get the next record / label.
Make sense?
John


On 7/2/09 7:27 AM, "Steve Winter" <steve at bluecrocodile.co.nz> wrote:

> Hi John,
> 
> I'd suggest staying far, far away from Java...! though I presume in this
> instance you mean JavaScript... and unfortunately if you want to do anything
> client-side that's really your only option (other than plugins, or Java, or
> flash or some other technology), and I'm afraid the triggering the print
> dialog needs to be done client side.... note that this won't actually print
> the document, it has the same effect as the user doing CTRL-P or CMD-P on
> their keyboard, they then need to click the 'ok' button...
> 
> Yes, option one involves re-writing what you've already done, however my
> experience in this is that anything which you want the user to print, and in
> which the layout/formatting is important, is best managed through a pdf...
> it's why when you checkin online with most airlines you end up with a pdf...
> 
> The css pagebreak code works, to some degree or another, but it's far from
> 'bullet-proof', see
> http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/page-break-after#compatibilitysection for
> more on this...
> 
> Option 3, yes, it involves javascript, however it only involves minor changes
> to the label generation functionality that you have now...
> 
> Cheers
> Steve
> 
> 
> 
> On 2 Jul 2009, at 13:01, John Funk wrote:
> 
>>  I like option 1 but I already have my php page that builds the label in
>> html. Looks like I would need to reconstruct the page withfpdf?
>>  Option 2 seem the most logical.....is there any PHP function / code that
>> will do the printing from a button? I¹d like to stay away from java.
>>  Option 3, again Javascript....
>>  
>>  Good ideas, thanks
>>  
>>  
>>  On 7/2/09 6:46 AM, "Steve Winter" <steve at bluecrocodile.co.nz> wrote:
>>  
>>  
>>> Hi John,
>>>  
>>>  Not sure that I follow, but I'll throw up a few ideas and see what
>>> sticks...
>>>  
>>>  1. what about using fpdf to create a multipage pdf document which contains
>>> all the labels, which the user can then print...?
>>>  2. css does offer 'pagebreak' options, which most modern browsers will
>>> obey, so you could insert those between the labels, on just one page...
>>>  3. you could show the first label, use javascript to pop-up the users print
>>> dialog, so that they can print that doc, then have a 'NEXT LABEL' button at
>>> the top of the label which takes the user to the next page in the set, and
>>> use a print specific css sheet to hide that button...
>>>  
>>>  Any help...? did I miss the point completely...??
>>>  
>>>  Cheers
>>>  Steve
>>>  
>>>  On 2 Jul 2009, at 12:35, John Funk wrote:
>>>  
>>>  
>>>>  In my solution the user fills out a from to request a label, the label
>>>> record is created and shown on a php from.
>>>>   Now my client wants to have the user to be able to enter the number of
>>>> labels required and each label ( a diferent FM record) presented to the
>>>> user on a separate web page, one after one.
>>>>   Is there a php function /class I could use to print? And then I could
>>>> find the next record and display.
>>>>   Thanks
>>>>   John 
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