Since I am new to PHP I want to know how to print a file content in PHP?
Actually my project consist of form from which data is choosed to print on a report but I want a print button on my form to print the report contents directly. Can anyone help please?
Here’s my code .. I have used CSS, html and PHP and it has two buttons view and print
<?php
if ($_POST["submit"] == "View") {
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<head>
<style type="text/css" media="all">
* {
margin:0px;
padding:0;
}
body {
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:12px;
}
span {
font-size:12px;
}
th, td {
width: 100mm;
height: 33.5mm;
}
table {
border-collapse:collapse;
}
</style>
<title>Hotel Label - <?php echo $_SESSION["tourname"]; ?></title>
</head>
<body>
<div style="margin:0px; padding:0; width:210mm; margin-top:12mm; margin-bottom:12mm; margin-left:0.5cm; margin-right:0cm; ">
<?php
//echo $getno;
/* } // View Tag Close
else {
ini_set("memory_limit", "50M");
ob_start();*/
?>
<style type="text/css" media="all">
<!--
body {
margin:0px;
font-family:Verdana, Arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:12px;
}
span {
font-size:12px;
}
td {
width: 100mm;
max-width: 100mm;
height: 33.5mm;
max-height:33.5mm;
top:0mm;
}
table {
border-collapse:collapse;
}
-->
</style>
<page backtop="13mm" backbottom="1mm" backleft="5mm" backright="5mm" style="font-size: 10px; font-family: Verdana;">
<?php
?>
<?php
$ctr16 = 0;
$ctr16_2 = 0;
$nctr = 0;
$ctr = 0;
$mctr = 0;
$lblctr = 0;
while ($lbl = mysql_fetch_assoc($get)) {
$ctr16++;
$ctr16_2++;
$nctr++;
$ctr++;
$lblctr++;
$getno--;
if ($ctr == 1) {
echo "<table border=\"0\" align=\"left\" style =\"width: 210mm;\">";
echo "\n <tr> \n ";
echo "\n <tr> \n ";
echo "\n <td style=\"width: 100mm; max-width: 100mm; height:33.5mm; padding-left:1mm;\" valign=\"top\"> \n";
if ($lblctr > 16) {
echo "<br>";
echo "<br>";
$lblctr = 1;
}
if ($ctr16 > 64) {
echo "<br>";
echo "<br>";
$ctr16 = 1;
}
}
else {
echo "\n <td style=\"width: 100mm; max-width: 100mm; height:33.5mm; padding-left:15mm;\" valign=\"top\"> \n";
if ($nctr > 16) {
echo "<br>";
echo "<br>";
$nctr = 1;
}
if ($ctr16_2 > 64) {
echo "<br>";
echo "<br>";
$ctr16_2 = 1;
}
}
echo "<br />". "<span><font size='3px'><b>$lbl[hotelname]</b></font>";
// echo "<font size='2px'>$lbl[hotelname]";
echo "<br />"."<br />"."<font size='2px'>Haji No.-$lbl[hajino]</font>";
echo "<br />"."$lbl[suffix] $lbl[surname] $lbl[name]$lbl[midname] <br />";
echo "<br />"."<font size='2px'><b>Room No - $lbl[roomno] Bus No - $lbl[busname]</font></b>";
echo "<br />";
echo "<br />";
echo "<br />";
echo "</span> ";
// echo "<br />";
echo "</td>";
if ($ctr == 2 || $getno == 0) {
echo '<br />';
$ctr = 0;
echo "</table>";
}
}
mysql_free_result($get);
?>
</div>
</body>
</html>
<?php
} else($_POST["submit"]== "Print"){
$filecontents = file_get_contents("hotel_label_print.php");
print $filecontents;
} ?>
You can use
file_get_contents()(http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php)