Another approach :
using a print.css

Put this in your _main.php file :

<link rel="stylesheet" href="rsc/print.css" type="text/css" media="print"/>

and something like this in your print.css file

BODY {
   color: black; 
   background: white;
   }
div#wrapper /* Main white content zone */{
   width: 100%;
   }
.bPosts {
   width: 90%;
   font-size : 1.2em;
   margin-top: 0px;
   padding-top: 0px;
   }
.bText img {
   background-color:#cccccc; 
   border:1px solid #000000; 
   padding: 4px;
   margin-left: 2px;
   }
a:link, a:visited {
   background: white; color: black; text-decoration: underline;
   font-weight: bold;
   }
.bComment {
   display: none;
   }
h4 {
   display: none;
   }
div#pageFooter {
   display: none;
   } 
#bloglist {
   display: none;
   } 
.bSmallFoot {
   display: none;
   } 
.bPostTitlepublished, .bPostTitleprotected, .bPostTitleprivate, bPostTitlepublished a {
   margin: 0;
   padding:0px;
   font-weight:600;
   font-size: 150%;
   text-decoration: none;
   }
.bSideItem {
   display: none;
   } 
input.SearchField {
   display: none;
   } 

Every div that is not needed for the article, you put on display:none;

Sorry, but I would like to stick to this approach B)

I would like to stick to Yabba's approach and not to the CSS approach. Can anybody tell me what I am doing wrong.

:-/

In your print skin you have an include for the bloglist, if you delete that line it'll get rid of your error (or copy the file to your print skin directory if you wan't the bloglist on your print skin).

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The 'Printer friendly' button is now working (not quite perfectly):

I created a new skin named print containing 3 files :

. _main.php,
. bloglist.php
. feedback.php
. print.css

Note: the _main.php is coming from the basic skin. I added the print.css to the file

<link rel="stylesheet" href="print.css" type="text/css" media="print"/>

I inserted the code and the link inside my _main.php file

Now, when I click the printer friendly link, I've got this:

http://www.fireworkszone.com/news/index.php?blog=3&paged=1&page=1&disp=posts&tempskin=print

As you can see in the new page I've got 5 posts with a style which is not coming from print.css.

From the page source I can see that _main.php (from basic) is included inside the _main.php from custom skin. There is something wrong about this.

What I would like is 'printer friendly' per post ID. You get only one post as in the Permanent link and you apply the print.css. How can I do that ?

Thanks

There shouldn't be any of the custom.php in the print skin (the "exit;" stops it from being processed any further)

Remove this line from your print skin :-

<link rel="stylesheet" href="custom.css" type="text/css" />

and change the next line so it looks like this :-

<link rel="stylesheet" href="rsc/print.css" type="text/css" />

In your post loop, add the following code to generate a printer friendly link per post :-

echo '<a href="'.$Item->gen_permalink( 'pid', '', true ).'" title="printer friendly version">Printer friendly version</a>';

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Finally, I came up with this code for a printer friendly button that works. Add this code at the top of your _main.php skin

<?php
param( 'tempskin', 'string' );
if( $tempskin == 'print' ){
require_once dirname(__FILE__).'/print/_main.php';
exit;
}
?>

And the printer friendly link:

<a href="<?php
  echo url_add_param( $Item->gen_permalink(), 'printme=1&amp;skin=print', '1'); ?>" title="Printer friendly |<?php $Item->title(); ?>">Print</a>

The last printer friendly link you gave was not working:

echo '<a href="'.$Item->gen_permalink( 'pid', '', true ).'" title="printer friendly version">Printer friendly version</a>';

Thanks anyway for your help

B)

Glad you got it working ;)

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