Disable Printing Web Page PHP
how can i disable printing a webpage using PHP or Javascript??
any code??
my system will go like this:
the user can print the webpage (html) only once
and then when he/she will attempt to print again that page,
there will be an alert or message that he/she can't print anymore
(CTRL + P or using File> Print)
i have alreay one field in my database with the value 1 or 0.
If 1, he can no longer print.and if 0 he can print.
Now my problem is how can i disable printing? both using ctrl+p
or using the File Menu.
thanks in advance..
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newbie26
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You can try to achieve this, but there are so many ways around this, that it is impossible to solve.
pritaeas
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try fooling around with, css
some code that chances the class of the body to "noprint" one with a style @media print{.noprint{display:none;}} remembered in a cookie or a value in the user table, easily bypassed but so is everything else,
I dunno, something like
crappydoodle
<?php
// database connection code etc
// some ajax to confirm active connection so it isnt being run locally
echo '<body class="';
if($setting<>"0") echo 'noprint ';
echo 'bodytext" onload="stuff">';
// some ajax to crate a print button and update $setting in the user table when it is clicked
?>
not complete code just thoughts
almostbob
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how will i know if the user already printed?
is there any way that i can update my database table field
if the user printed a document??
in php code.
thanks..
newbie26
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In most cases you won't know. You can add a print button on your page, and notify a PHP script if it gets clicked. However, if they use the browser's menu, you won't get a notification. Even if they use your button, they can always set the number of copies in the print dialog, you'll never know how much they printed.
pritaeas
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is there any other way to achieve want i want??
i was able to disable printing with ctrl + P
and what i did when the user uses file>print, there will be no
display when he/she prints.
now, is there a way that i can automatic print??so that the user
will not be able to type how many copies he.she wants to print?
i searched google with many suggestions to bypass print dialog box but they all
didn't work.
newbie26
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As has been mentioned by each poster...there is no guarantee in this. Even if you disabled all of the browser's print functions they could technically copy/paste the page (granted there be no design elements) into a text file and print it from there.
And companies that make browsers do not want site developers to have control over a user's browser due to malicious intent that some might have. There are ways as suggested above to try to make it more difficult to print it out after a first time and then MAYBE it'd be too much work for someone to bother printing it again but if someone really wanted to, they could do it.
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