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Hi there,
Does anyone please know if there's a php or Javascript function that can be called and works in the same way as if a user clicked print in the browser (or with the right mouse button).....
i.e. I want to be able to print a web page without the user having to click the print button.
Thanks if you can help,
Jason
This Javascript should do the trick for you:
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
var da = (document.all) ? 1 : 0;
var pr = (window.print) ? 1 : 0;
var mac = (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Mac") != -1);
function printPage() {
if (pr) // NS4, IE5
window.print()
else if (da && !mac) // IE4 (Windows)
vbPrintPage()
else // other browsers
alert("Sorry, your browser doesn't support this feature.");
return false;
}
if (da && !pr && !mac) with (document) {
writeln('<OBJECT ID="WB" WIDTH="0" HEIGHT="0" CLASSID="clsid:8856F961-340A-11D0-A96B-00C04FD705A2"></OBJECT>');
writeln('<' + 'SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBScript">');
writeln('Sub window_onunload');
writeln(' On Error Resume Next');
writeln(' Set WB = nothing');
writeln('End Sub');
writeln('Sub vbPrintPage');
writeln(' OLECMDID_PRINT = 6');
writeln(' OLECMDEXECOPT_DONTPROMPTUSER = 2');
writeln(' OLECMDEXECOPT_PROMPTUSER = 1');
writeln(' On Error Resume Next');
writeln(' WB.ExecWB OLECMDID_PRINT, OLECMDEXECOPT_DONTPROMPTUSER');
writeln('End Sub');
writeln('<' + '/SCRIPT>');
}
// -->
</SCRIPT>
<A HREF="#" onClick="return printPage()">Print</A>
Thank you very much indeed sir - it works a treat!!!
Regards,
Jason
Im glad it worked!! for you
in future, i found thie site
http://www.webreference.com/js/
to be a good resourse for javascript
Woops,
This does it much more efficiently, as I have just realised:
<body>
<script>window.print()</script>
</body>
Regards,
Jason
This way of printing a page will only work on MSIE > 4
and im not even sure if it will work on netscape
not sure about window.print() but self.print() works in both NN and IE 4+ as for the others less than 4.0 browsers you can quote me on this one - Quit living in the Dark Ages - the browsers are FREE!
Please don't PM me with questions.
Use the forums, that is what they are here for.
I use this on my site:
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" TYPE="text/javascript">
<!--
function printPage() {
if (window.print) {
agree = confirm('Print this feature out now?');
if (agree) window.print();
}
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>
If gives the user an option of when to print...
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