CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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user1170540
user1170540

Reputation:

PHP based Printable version

I have a handcoded site with a few hundred articles. My current theme follows a blue background. Of course the images are therefore, with a blue background. For future support of printable versions, I have (from first day) kept two versions of the images with the latter one having a white background. These ones has '_print' before their extensions.

Of course, the best way to create a printable version is to use a different CSS and hide headers and sidebars by 'display:none' in respective CSS.

Is there any way I can use PHP to automatically add '_print' before '.jpg' in printable versions? Or is there is any other way altogether?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 163

Answers (3)

Rob Stevenson-Leggett
Rob Stevenson-Leggett

Reputation: 35679

You could probably do this either with PHP or with Javascript.

in PHP you could just pass a parameter like ?print=true and then write a little helper function to get the appropriate image url.

<?php
function getImageUrl(imageUrl) { 
   if(isset($_GET["print"])) {
      return preg_replace('\.jpg$','_print\.jpg',imageUrl);
   }
   return imageUrl;
}
?>

Disclaimer - not a PHP dev.

Upvotes: 2

Corsair
Corsair

Reputation: 1044

If the php script uses the full name of the images while it is building the website, why not?

You should create something like this, if I expect your code to be like this:

echo '<img src="images/artcle_'.$aid.',jpg"/>';

You should add a new variable via $_GET or $_POST, e.g.:

$print = "";

if($_GET['print'] == "1"){
     $print = "_print";
}

And later:

echo '<img src="images/artcle_'.$aid.$print.',jpg"/>';

Resulting in the print versions only being displayed if the Print param is sent.

Upvotes: 2

Laurence
Laurence

Reputation: 60048

<? php if ($print_page == true)
{
    $append = "_print";
}
else
{
    $append = "";
} ?>


<html>
  <body>
     <img src = "/image/image<?php echo $append?>.jpg />
  </body>
</html>

by including $append in all your image links -they will auto update with the _print if required. Just set $print_page as true or false as needed if you want the page to be printable

Upvotes: 1

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