Printing php page with various values - php

Question

I have a php page that gets values from my database called print.php which I use to display and print the values from my database.
print.php?id=100 loads the page with values from the database that has the id 100. each record on my database has a field to store the date the record was created. As for now I visit print.php?id=100, print.php?id=101, print.php?id=102, print.php?id=103 and so on to print the same page but with various values.
Is there a way for me to create a button which does this automatically?
This button should grab all records that have the current date and print all those pages.
Sorry for being unclear.
My print.php page echos values from my database like this:
Id: <?php echo $info['id']; ?>
Name: <?php echo $info['name']; ?>
Date: <?php echo $info['date']; ?>
Gender: <?php echo $info['gender']; ?>
So for example visiting print.php?id=100 loads these values:
Id: 100
Name: John
Date: 2013-04-09
Gender: Male
Cisiting print.php?id=101 loads these values:
Id: 101
Name: Sarah
Date: 2013-04-09
Gender: Female
and so on.
When visiting each page I hit CTRL+P to print that information.
Instead of doing this manually (visiting each page and sending it to printer) I would like to have a script which grabs all the records of current date and sends it to my printer.

Answer 1

I'm not sure what you want to archieve, but I think you want a form like this:
<form method="get" action="">
<input type="text" name="id" value="100"/>
<input type="submit"/>
</form>
this would redirect the user to print.php?id=100 or with the value given in the textbox
EDIT:
What I read from the comments on the question is this what you want to archieve:
<form method="get" action="">
<input type="text" name="date" value="<?=date('yyyy-mm-dd');?>"/>
<input type="submit"/>
</form>
this would show a form with a textfield with the date of today printed in.
then you should make a query and fetch it like this:
$date = check_date($_GET['date']);
$query = 'SELECT * FROM values WHERE date="'.$date.'"';
if ($result = $mysqli->query($query)) {
while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
// print row
}
}
the function check_date() is up to you to create, this checks if the text is a valid date to make sure nobody can hack your database

Answer 2

As I understand (it's not very clear) you want records for a specified date. Then you have to send a parameter for that date but not a single record id.
So, you can send a date with print.php?date=09-04-2013 for example and in you PHP script your query would be:
$date = $_GET['date']; // validate it
$sql = "SELECT * FROM table WHERE date = '$date'";
// fetch result
// print with a foreach loop as you like
Or if you want the current date only you don't need to pass a parameter at all. Just use CURDATE() if your date field contains only the date or NOW() if it contains date and time:
$sql = "SELECT * FROM table WHERE date = CURDATE()";
// fetch result
// print with a foreach loop as you like
More: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/date-and-time-functions.html
Still couldn't understand whether you have a problem with the HTML or with the PHP part.
If you are asking just for html forms and how to create a button you can check here:
http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_forms.asp
It's pretty simple to understand.