Printing a schedule

[calista]

I think I know a way to do this, but I want to see if anyone else out there has other ideas. I have created an online meeting room reservation system. The user can view the schedule for a given room for a given week (default is the current week), and can page forward or back through the weeks for that room. Now, I have been asked to make it printable. I did this on a prior application I developed (an online time sheet) through the use of session variables. It doesn't seem like session variables are appropriate in this situation, because the user may want to print out any week. I am using arrays to store and process the information, but, of course, I cannot pass them as URL variables. I need to go to another page so I can print the schedule minus my header, footer, and menu table.

My thought on this was to write my arrays to session variables to send them to the print page, but clear them at the top of the display page (the page on which the user would click a button to print), so every time they came through the display page, the session variables would be cleared before starting. Anyone have a better idea? Calista :-X
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[Glowball]

So your print page is exactly the same minus the extra formatting and header and such? Well, you could have a session that is just used to pass the information. You have to write the html on the initial page, so write it to a really long string instead. Print the string out on your initial page as well as store it in a session. When you go to the print page, you'll just be printing that variable again.

Would something like that work?