Question

I am using AJAX to send form data to a server php file that builds and sends an html email. A portion of this data I am echoing on the server php file. The html that is echoed builds a table that I would like the user to print (on paper). I’d like to open the default browser print dialog so the user can print the table that he/she cannot see. I don’t care if a new tab has to open displaying the echoed content. Is this even possible?

Answer 1

return that html form ajax request and then use javascript to print

This code is not tested

JQuery/Javascript

$.post("EmailFile.php", { "EmailParam": "EmailVal" },
     function(data){
         var HTML = data.EmailHTML;

        var WindowObject = window.open("", "PrintWindow", "width=750,height=650,top=50,left=50,toolbars=no,scrollbars=yes,status=no,resizable=yes");
        WindowObject.document.writeln(HTML);
        WindowObject.document.close();
        WindowObject.focus();
        WindowObject.print();
        WindowObject.close();

     }, "json");

PHP File (EmailFile.php)

$EmailData = $_POST['EmailParam'];
//...Send Email...

//..Build HTML...
$TableHTML = "<table></table>";

//Return HTML
$JSONArr['EmailHTML'] = $TableHTML;
echo json_encode($JSONArr);