Topic: "Printer Friendly" page with new header/footers for Topics/posts
I was just thinking a good mod would be the ability to have a 'Print' link with the "Edit | Quote" links on each post.
I'm guessing it would be something like a php file(s) that's called from this 'print' link which then strips the content in the posts and prepars them to a Printer templated/formatted page which can then be printed using the browsers usual print buttons, just like the major news sites do to save on printer ink and paper.
The printer link could ask what you want to print - First Post Only OR Entire thread (showing post count) for example (and any other options you can think of?).
It then opens a new window which shows the printer preview that the browser can then send to the Printer in a correct format.
I've got a Forum where users post guitar tabs so having the ability to print a tab post which, rather than printing the whole browser page with graphics/colours etc, it just takes the post, keeps the formatting of the post but writes new header and foot HTML for it which, in this case, could display proper sheet music headers for example. When they print a tab post, they can know that it will print properly and for me i can control how that print will look- branding the content with html headers for example.
I guess it would need to know what the parser file knows to keep the formatting, it would need to reference a new header/footer files and probably a lot of php!
Has anything like this been done? I reckon it would make a great addition, if someone wants to make it and take all the credit - PLEASE DO!!! smile I can't do it, don't know PHP well enough!
