Print Icon

Did you find a way to do this?

I thought this would be easy but it isn't !!! I tried :

<?php

function phptemplate_print_link($node) {
  return '<a href="node/' . $node->nid . '/print"><img src="files/print_icon.gif" alt="Display a printer friendly version of this page."></a>';
}

?>

but got a load of < / # < gobbledigook ... It looks like there's some drupal filter that prevents me just using old-fashioned HTML img src links ...

The print.module function that formats the 'Printer Friendly Version' link is:

<?php
/********************************************************************
 * Module Functions :: Themeable Functions
 ********************************************************************/

function theme_print_link($node) {
  return array('title' => t('Printer friendly version'),
           'href' => "node/$node->nid/print",
           'attributes' => array('title' => t('Display a printer friendly version of this page.')),
         );
}
?>

but it's not very themable !

Does anyone know what's going on ?

What sort of gobbledygook did it spit out?

OK the link title showed up as a < and the url was something like < / # < gobbledigook ... it has to be an input filter, no?

I found a promising forum thread which - at a glance at least - provides plenty of tips: http://drupal.org/node/49393.

I don't have much time right now so if anyone has any luck with it, it would be great if you could post your solution here.

Anyone got this working?

I disabled link display in print settings, and manually put the printer friendly url in the theme. Works well.

add this to your style.css - make sure the url ref is correct for your icon:

.print a {
    padding-left: 20px;
    background:url(icons/print.png)  no-repeat;
}

This will 'prefix' your icon into the link label eg '[X] Printer Friendly Version'.
The padding just makes room for the icon.

The print link is now defined with it's own class: print-page. It should be possible to use this as suggested by JohnG to add your own icon. Try to use the following css:

.print-page {
background:url() no-repeat;
width:px;
height:px;
font-size: 0px;
}

I haven't tried it in IE, but it works well in Firefox.

Hello,
First of all thx for this module. But I'm a beginner in Drupal and i don't know where i'm supposed to change the code. I would like to have differents icons depending on where i am on the website. The icons can be red, blue, orange ...
I watch in the file print.modile the function theme_print_format_link but how can i retrieve the "context" (node or whatever)
Thx you for helping me and have a nice day ;)