How to find in my pdf template if it's called for pdf or preview

Sure! How about:

<?php if( false !== strpos( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 'pdf-preview' ) ) : ?>

Thanks for your quick response

Your suggestion was my first intention

To check it, I have include in my test environment a trace in my pdf-template:
<h5>the request uri is <?php echo $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?> </h5>

If I open the post/pdf-preview url, I can read the following:

the request uri is /listing/chalet-pareado-de-700-m2-en-habana/?pdf-template

If I open the post/pdf url, the output is the same ??

Any tips?

Thanks again for your help

Ahh, you’re completely right. The plugin externally loads the /pdf-template endpoint and renders it onto the page.

I can’t immediately think of a way to differentiate between the /pdf and the /pdf-preview endpoints without altering the plugin source. This may well be a feature I could implement in the next version of WP PDF Templates.

This is a bit of a hack, but you could experiment with setting a cookie to track which endpoint is being used. Just add define('FETCH_COOKIES_ENABLED', true); to your wp-config.php to make sure cookies are being forwarded to the template.

Let me know if you have any luck with this method. I haven’t actually tried this myself.

How about just adding the <script> tags statically into the template? The PDF document can’t render it anyway.

Another thing you could do, is define a completely new endpoint or use the /pdf-template endpoint instead of /pdf-preview, and look at the user agent.

The $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] variable shouldn’t be defined when the request is coming from /pdf-preview or /pdf, but should be defined when using /pdf-template.

The static <script> alternative does’t work because in some browser (for example, firefox) the pdf is opened inside the browser AND the static <script> is executed ??

It is something strange, my script is:

<?php wp_footer(); ?>
   <script type="text/javascript">
      if (location.href.indexOf('pdf-preview') != -1) {
         window.print();
      }
   </script>

That is: I only want to execute the window.print when the browser is in pdf-preview. However, the window.print() statement is executed by firefox.

This is the reason I want to render only the <script> when I access the /pdf-preview choice

Your last suggestion has done the magic ??

Now, I access to:

• {post}/pdf
• {post]/pdf-template

And this piece of code in my pdf-template works fine:

<?php wp_footer(); ?>
<?php
      if ($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] != '') {
         echo '<script type="text/javascript"> window.print(); </script>';
      }
?>

Thanks!!!

Glad to hear you got it working!

I think the static javascript option would have worked as well. Your logic seemed to be a bit faulty. This piece of script would’ve also worked:

<script>
if ( window.location.pathname.match(/pdf-preview/g) ) {
  window.print();
}
</script>

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