Printer Friendly Pages

Thursday · 31 Oct 02 · 08:29 PM IST | Posted by Karthik | Category: Tech

I got a pretty cool little feature working today for this site - now I haven't implemented it yet, but I tried it out on my server at home.  This is the ability to view each of these news posts in a separate page.  This is useful for two things, first of all since each post has a page dedicated to it, it's URL can be given to others.  Probably you might want to send an email to me or someone else mentioning one particular post that I've made.  Now you can refer to it by it's own address.  Secondly, these pages are also printer friendly - which means they don't have the menu and all the other components of the page, and they're presented in a large, nicely readable font size.  The layout, therefore, is ideal for printing.  I think it's a nice feature, and I'll add it here soon.

PHP is really awesome, this is actually a pretty powerful feature (if you think about it, the moment I add this feature to the site, there will immediately be about 80 new dynamically generated pages available!), but it was almost ridiculously simple to write!

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