Hey Guys,

I am pretty new to the PHP world and am looking for some guidance in building a certain type of site.

I wish to create a site for my work colleagues where they can simply slick on a button which then copies proformas, text etc from a data base or word document.

Of course their would be a different button for each proforma etc.

Does anyone have tips or ideas on scripts that would allow such functionality.

Thanks In Advance

And do what with the documents?

I have a bunch of Proformas (pre written text that is needed frequently).

I wish to add a list of buttons on a site which when clicked automatically copies a proforma to the clipboard.

Doesn't really matter if the proformas are in a Database or a word document located on the server.

All I wish to know is can it be done using PHP and some tips on how to do it.

Nope PHP cannot do that, it could retrieve the text from a database or a plain text file and stream it to a browser or it could send a download link to the user agent.

But it cannot copy anything to the clients clipboard.

To anyone who reads this I worked out using PHP how to reference docucments using PHP in a textarea.

<textarea id="hostheaders" name="hostheaders" cols="100" rows="100" style="display:none">

<?php readfile("Docs/hostheaders.txt") ?>

</TEXTAREA>
<input onclick="doact(document.getElementById('hostheader s'))" type="button" value="Host Headers">
</form>


When clicking the button to copy the text are it locates the file in the php String and places it in you clipboard.

It can be done.

But the actual copying to the clipboard is done by javascript, not php. php just reads the file content and, in this case, places it in a textarea.