KarenArt — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:20:46 +0000

Good luck!
... and have fun with it!

stomlin — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:18:55 +0000

Thank you very much for your input. You really have been a great help.

I now have a couple of things that I can really research.

KarenArt — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:17:44 +0000

I don't know of any way to do that. (of course it's scary all the things I don't know )

With what I know you have 2 options...

Option 1: Send your form info along with an input that shows if the print button was pressed to the php page and either using css or the php code I posted earlier display either a screen version of your page or a print version.

Option 2: Send your form info to the php page and have the print button on that page. If they hit the print button send the form info to the asp page using hidden inputs.

Sorry my knowledge runs out there. Hope this can be of some help to you!

Best of luck with this job!
Let us know how it all works out.

stomlin — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:07:38 +0000

AHHHHHHHHh, you may have it!

That is the form action to send the data to the php form. I do not have anything sending it to an asp.

Here's a goofy question: Can you have two form actions on a form???

KarenArt — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:45:21 +0000

Quote: If you happen to know of any great css tutorials, feel free to drop me a line and let me know.

JeevesBond gave you a great list for really delving into the possibilities of css!
Here's a beginner's tutorial on using css you might find helpful.
http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/stylesheets/introduction.html

I think you'll find that using css would solve most all your problems you're having here.

KarenArt — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:41:38 +0000

Sounds like you already have a php page coded that collects the form data and displays it on the screen... you just need to have the asp page do the same thing.

Something that might be causing your problem...
in your html page what do you have for "action" in your form?

example:

Are you needing a way to post the form values to 2 seperate pages?

stomlin — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:39:48 +0000

If you happen to know of any great css tutorials, feel free to drop me a line and let me know.

stomlin — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:35:35 +0000

Well, the page itself actually is html saved with a php extension for the security. When a client fills out the information, they hit submit; the form goes to a php script which then in turn sends it to a mysql database.

They have an option that they can hit printer friendly, and the form goes to an asp script in a printer friendly format. However, after they fill out the form completely, they hit printer friendly version, and they get a fresh form without any of the data they just entered. I am trying to pass this data into the asp, so that way, they can print the whole thing.

I would just leave it alone and let the database pick up the data, but my client wants the option of the customer being able to actually print the form and fax it in.

KarenArt — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:15:25 +0000

Ok whew! Now I see where you're going (I think).

What you have is a form on a php page (saved with .php extension) and you want to be able to pass the values collected from that form to a printable page saved with an .asp extension.

What type of page do you normally pass the form values to (if they don't choose the printable page)?

I might be able to help you pass the variables from php to php, but as I said before... I don't know anything about asp.

I'm sorry to have taken you round and round and been no help.
Hopefully someone else can give you some good advice.

JeevesBond — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:09:49 +0000

You don't actually need a 'printer friendly' version of your page, or any ASP dedication to generating one. Simply create css for print, you can even apply this across your entire site with little extra effort. As an example here's how you would link/import two external css files, one for screen display one for print (XHTML 1.0):

...

@import url(basestyle.css);

...

The import element is the default, however when the page is printed the browser will (or should!) use the css page specified by the link element. The key here is the "media" attribute, which can be set a number of useful device types (see W3C Candidate Recommendation: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/media.html )

A good way of seeing this in action is the List Apart article: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/goingtoprint/ this shows the point in more detail.

Also you should learn css, but do it properly! Like learning how XHTML works and why it was created, that these days you don't need tables for design, good starting points for this learning are: http://www.alistapart.com http://www.csszengarden.com http://www.zeldman.com obviously http://www.w3c.org is the definitive source for specifications, but the content is a little dry for someone who is learning.