Si Cranmer
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| Posted: 02/26/2005, 2:11 AM |
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I am creating an intranet application. The client would like several documents to automatically print on completion of a page. Can anyone point me in the direction (or know of the commands needed) of documentation to send data directly to a printer.
Situation is PHP, Apache on Win2K or WinXp PC with several machines accessing the PC over a P2P network. I was thinking of having the printer/queue name being entered previously within the system setup, "shelling out" to windows creating/identifying word docs and sending the to the printer queue.
I do this elsewhere in *nix with direct lp -p.... command
Any ideas please.
TA
Si.
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peterr
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| Posted: 02/26/2005, 12:32 PM |
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Do you want to print Web pages or some other documents?
To a printer that is connected to a user's computer (which may not be possible), or to the server?
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Si Cranmer
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| Posted: 02/27/2005, 12:23 AM |
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Sorry that bit was vague. Its to the server side printers. It should not mater what the print is since I was planning to capture data/pages write them out to a text/doc file and then send that to a printer.
Si.
PS I did not think you could auto print on the client side even if you did know the printer name since windows always throws up the printer selection box.
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Triffid
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| Posted: 02/27/2005, 7:16 AM |
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Not sure if you checked it already, but have a look at http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/ref.printer.php
PHP Printer queue etc.
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peterr
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| Posted: 02/27/2005, 12:05 PM |
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So you probably just need to execute some Windows/shell command from your program. Possibly these would be useful:
http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/function.shell-exec.php
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/libr...mming/print.asp
http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=314499
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=print+printer+...line%22+windows
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Tuong Do
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| Posted: 02/27/2005, 2:28 PM |
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If you can create PDF then you can use Active PDF Spooler to print your Pdf
document to any (server side) Network Printer
Active PDF is good for ASP but with PHP you can use the Hot folder priting
option.
Ie Saving your PDF file to a Hot Folder, Active PDF spooler will take care
of it from there.
<SiCranmer@forum.codecharge (Si Cranmer)> wrote in message
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>I am creating an intranet application. The client would like several
>documents
> to automatically print on completion of a page. Can anyone point me in the
> direction (or know of the commands needed) of documentation to send data
> directly to a printer.
>
> Situation is PHP, Apache on Win2K or WinXp PC with several machines
> accessing
> the PC over a P2P network. I was thinking of having the printer/queue
> name
> being entered previously within the system setup, "shelling out" to
> windows
> creating/identifying word docs and sending the to the printer queue.
>
> I do this elsewhere in *nix with direct lp -p.... command
>
> Any ideas please.
>
> TA
>
> Si.
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