Question

Maybe you can help me in this.

I have a welcome screen that say “enter the code”. User enters is, and he gets message (another page) saying “please wait”. On this level the system is checking if the code is valid. Here starts the problem.

Code goes to completelly different page with php script. The script returns answear and if the code is ok it displays the result that should be printed (for example proper chart). BUT the user should not see this chart on the screen. He only should see “please wait” page, and then “your stuff was printed” page or “sorry chart is not ready yet, or the code is wrong” page…

So basicly not only pages should have some kind of communication, but also invisible URL print in the background should be started.

For the moment I have no idea how to solve this using php/javascript/ajax and what is avaiable for web.

I would really appreciate help. Thanx in advance.

Answer 1

A quick hack to do this would be to use something like jQuery-printPage.

$(".btnPrint").printPage({
  url: "/print/custompage/html",
  attr: "href",
  message:"Your document is being created"
})