[FX.php List] PHP question: Presenting the user with multiple
pages from each result
Steve Winter
steve at bluecrocodile.co.nz
Thu Jul 2 12:21:43 MDT 2009
Umm... I'm not so sure about that, but thanks for the vote of
confidence ;-)
Cheers
Steve
On 2 Jul 2009, at 18:56, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:
> Lesson: Always listen to Steve Winter.
>
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>
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> On Jul 2, 2009, at 1:34 PM, Steve Winter <steve at bluecrocodile.co.nz>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> In many ways you have come full circle, in that .pdf generation was
>> the way to go... rather than abandoning that idea it may have been
>> better to move the location of that pdf generation from FMP to PHP,
>> which is what the fpdf class I've mentioned and PDFlib which Leo
>> mentioned would have helped you do... ;-)
>>
>> That said, yes, your current solution makes sense, and was my
>> 'suggestion 3'....
>>
>> Cheers
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> On 2 Jul 2009, at 18:21, John Funk wrote:
>>
>>> 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? I’d 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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