I have built a script in PHP, that takes a variable submitted from an HTML
form, then overlays it onto a base .png image. It displays correctly...
everything is fine there. However, if I try to print the image or save the
image, the user submitted data is left out.

I also have a random number printed onto the image using PHP. This does NOT
come from a form. It is generated in PHP. IE7 displays that random number ok
when I print or save the image. It is only the user submitted data that
doesn't work.

I'd like to point out that this works ok in FireFox.

Is IE7 reloading the page when it prints the image? Should I set a session
variable, and use that as the variables in PHP?

Thanks for the help! I'm just wanting to know if there is a quick fix for it.

Hi Bagpiper,

I am pretty sure that IE is printing tag value attributes for elements like
text and textareas, so these elements will not have a value until the form
is sent and then reloaded on the page. You will also notice that multiselect
listboxes do not print all of the selected options (both FF and IE and
Opera).

My usual process flow for form validation is

Present form to user.
User completes form and submits it.
Form is validated and if correct a printer friendly version is displayed to
the user
otherwise
The original form with the user's entered values is redisplayed to the user
for correction.

Other times I may put a "Printer Friendly view" button on the page that will
submit the form to an asp process to display the users entered data in a new
window in a printer friendly version.

Regards.
"bagpiperdude90" <bagpiperdude90@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have built a script in PHP, that takes a variable submitted from an HTML
> form, then overlays it onto a base .png image. It displays correctly...
> everything is fine there. However, if I try to print the image or save the
> image, the user submitted data is left out.
>
> I also have a random number printed onto the image using PHP. This does
> NOT
> come from a form. It is generated in PHP. IE7 displays that random number
> ok
> when I print or save the image. It is only the user submitted data that
> doesn't work.
>
> I'd like to point out that this works ok in FireFox.
>
> Is IE7 reloading the page when it prints the image? Should I set a session
> variable, and use that as the variables in PHP?
>
> Thanks for the help! I'm just wanting to know if there is a quick fix for
> it.

ok, well... the only problem is that this *needs* to be on the image...
otherwise it makes the whole thing useless. So I can't display a printer
friendly version.

I did try using session variables for it, and now the image saves correctly.
I might just tell the users to save the image, then print from their computer.