通过POST传递整页

Question

I have a HTML page that stored in PHP variable that I want to pass to another page.

It's a big page that includes a lot of text and HTML tags.

How can I pass this variable?

I tried this:

echo "
<form action=\"toPrint.php\" method=\"post\">
    <input  type=\"hidden\" value=\" {$output} \">
    <button class=\"btn btn-info\">go to print page</button>
</form>";

But obviously it didn't work.

(Because this vaiable includes alot of html tags, it simply printed the text. probably the quotation marks inside the text, mess this up)

The reason I want to do this is because I want to send the page to a special PHP page that will present a printed version of the page without all of the menus around.

Is there other way to do that?

Thanks!

Answer 1

My first suggestion is to hide what you do not want to print, as detailed in How do I hide an element when printing a web page?

My second suggestion is to load the same page with a print parameter and generate the PDF from the content

Alternatively use jsPDF to grab the rendered page and output it to PDF

Lastly I suggest using htmlentities to escape the HTML