Timing Issues

Ray,

The below two pages you worked on and these pages are taking a very long time to load. I know that they are reading from a folder location on the hard drive, but there really isn't a whole lot of files in there but there so I'm not 100% sure that the cause.

The issue on this page was with the code you added to create a zip file from the files. You put the code inside of the FOR loop that displays all of the files so that the .zip file was being re-created after each file listed on the page. That means you were re-creating the zip file 20+ times before displaying the page.

I thought at first it was just the creating of the zip file in general was taking the time, but after a little debugging I realized it only took a second or two, but it was running 20 times before the page loads.

I moved it on your two pages that list files so that the .zip file is only created once. The page could be sped up even further so that the zip file is only created once the user clicks the link to download it, but the time doesn't seem bad now.

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For the printing issue, I'd add some CSS like:

<style type="text/css">
.printOnly {
  display: none;
}
@media print {
  .printOnly {
    display: block;
  }
  .dontPrint {
    display:none;
  }
}
</style>

Then you can add the classes printOnly for elements you only want to show when printed, and dontPrint for elements you don't want shown on the printed page.

So add class="dontPrint" to the menu and radio buttons and other navigation elements, and add class="printOnly" to the full path to the file that you want on the printed page.

Sorry I don't understand what you mean by, "and add class="printOnly" to the full path to the file that you want on the printed page"

I mean you can identify things that you do or don't want shown on the printed page as opposed to the page displayed in the browser by adding classes like:

<div class="printOnly">print this but don't show it on the web</div>
<div class="dontPrint ">display this on a web page, but don't print it</div>