Passing whole page through POST

Question

I have a HTML page that stored in PHP variable that I want to pass to another page.

It's a big page that includes a lot of text and HTML tags.

How can I pass this variable?

I tried this:

echo "
<form action=\"toPrint.php\" method=\"post\">
    <input  type=\"hidden\" value=\" {$output} \">
    <button class=\"btn btn-info\">go to print page</button>
</form>";

But obviously it didn't work.

(Because this vaiable includes alot of html tags, it simply printed the text. probably the quotation marks inside the text, mess this up)

The reason I want to do this is because I want to send the page to a special PHP page that will present a printed version of the page without all of the menus around.

Is there other way to do that?

Thanks!

If you want to print things, use a print CSS and have the CSS hide unnecessary stuff — mplungjan, Mar 05 '17 at 10:48
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/355313/how-do-i-hide-an-element-when-printing-a-web-page - make much more sense — mplungjan, Mar 05 '17 at 10:49
@mplungjan I preffer to send it because I have "includes" and a lot of junk around. — J. Doe, Mar 05 '17 at 10:50
So resubmit the page to itself and have a flag on the URL or such telling the PHP not to include all the stuff. Alternative is jsPDF — mplungjan, Mar 05 '17 at 10:55
@mplungjan There is no way that pass this data via POST or something to another page? — J. Doe, Mar 05 '17 at 10:58
Sure, but very very pointless. You would need to escape the HTML in the field — mplungjan, Mar 05 '17 at 11:03
Have a look at htmlentities which you would need to pass HTML inside a form — mplungjan, Mar 05 '17 at 11:07

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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My first suggestion is to hide what you do not want to print, as detailed in How do I hide an element when printing a web page?

My second suggestion is to load the same page with a print parameter and generate the PDF from the content

Alternatively use jsPDF to grab the rendered page and output it to PDF

Lastly I suggest using htmlentities to escape the HTML

edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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answered Mar 05 '17 at 11:43

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