Creating a Printer Version Grab Method

Background

Many methods exist to creating printer versions. A few of these include:

• creating a separate HTML page for every page on your website
  that is formatted to print well.
• using a database to hold the page content and display the
  content via either the normal template or the stripped-down printer template.
• including a header.php file above your content and footer.php
  below your content.

The method I will describe here is different from the usual
methods and is used on websites like CNN.

The basic idea is to put a hidden html comment tag at the
beginning of the main content of your webpage, and another
hidden html comment tag at the end of your content.

<!--startclickprintinclude-->
The content you want to print goes here.
<!--endclickprintinclude-->

The Printer Version script will open the webpage, grab
only that which is between the hidden tags, and display
it within the Printer Version template.