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03-22-2008, 07:43 PM

Jdinh04

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Article -> .PDF, E-Mail, Printable

On a local group website I am working on will have a bunch of articles. I was wondering if anybody could help me with being able to have those buttons where people can convert the article to a .PDF file, e-mail it to another person, or print the article for themselves.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

03-23-2008, 06:53 PM

Charlay

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Emailing it you just need to use phps mail() function or use an OS class, print is a button i've totally forgot i think it's ?print, but you just have to strip everything but text and text formatting. I don't know about pdf theres a php function for it though.

03-29-2008, 06:59 PM

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Here is print found at: http://www.w3schools.com/htmldom/met_win_print.asp

Code:

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function printpage()
  {
  window.print()
  }
</script>
</head>
<body>

<input type="button" value="Print this page"
onclick="printpage()" />

</body>
</html>

Just and this to the page you want to be able to print.

Now, to the PDF question. If you just want to give the option to view or download the doc. in PDF format all you will need to do is link to a PDF of the doc. You will need to create the doc. and link to it. It is not a good idea to generate a new PDF on the server every time some wants to view in that format. Save yourself hassle and just create a link to the PDF.

Now, to email: You will need to build a script and form. These are not hard or easy tasks. Take a look on Google to find a "how-to" or have a look around the php section here. You could alway get someone to do it here in the market place.