[ic] Generating .html files
Paul Jordan
paul at gishnetwork.com
Sat Feb 2 18:29:25 EST 2008
> On 02/02/2008 06:56 AM, Grant wrote:
> > I currently print order receipts by accessing
> > example.com/admin/receipt.html?mv_arg=1234 and printing through the
> > browser, but I'm trying to set up an automated system that will print
> > order receipts via Net::Printer. I think I will need static .html
> > files for that. How would you guys create a static .html file from
> an
> > IC page?
>
> There are a few different ways, you can turn any ITL code into HTML
> simply by interpolating it, for example:
>
> [seti bar]<a href="[area foo]">link to foo</a>[/seti]
>
> Will store the HTML link to the foo page in bar...
>
> [seti bar][include pages/foo.html][/seti]
>
> will store the full HTML for the foo Interchange page in the bar
> scratch
> (foo.html must be in your catalog's pages directory)...
>
> [my-printing-tag interpolate=1][include pages/foo.html][/my-printing-
> tag]
>
> will call your specialized printing container tag with the contents of
> the foo IC page interpolated to html in the body of the tag. Your
> printing tag can then do whatever it wats with the body (like print it
> for example).
>
> Peter
I'm not sure what Peter just said :-)
We use capture_page:
http://www.icdevgroup.org/docs/tags/capture_page.html
Paul
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