Font selection PHP

kev1952 · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 3:20 am Post subject: Font selection PHP

I have searched far and wide and connot find what I want to know.

I want to add a font selector to a PHP script (allow the user to choose a font) that creates a selectable font list (dropdown) from the fonts available on the client machine.

Can this be done? I would like it to be purely PHP without the need for Javascript or an external data base.
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Anonymoose · - Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 2192

PHP is executed server side, javascript is executed clientside. PHP running on your server will have no knowledge of what fonts are available on the client machine - so if you want to do it without any client side scripting, no, you won't be able to do it...
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aprelium · - Joined: 22 Mar 2002 Posts: 6800

kev1952,

It is impossible for a script on the server to "guess" what fonts are available on the browser's visitor. No such information is passed by browsers to servers. So you can fill your list with a standard list of fonts usually available on browsers and hope they will be there on the client side.

Here is a list of common fonts: http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html .
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