Re: php and local printing

On Wednesday 05 March 2003 13:20, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:45:54AM -0800, Mark wrote: > >It dopesn't seem like you got an answer to this. > > Spot on. Yours is the first reply. Not surprising as this question really does not belong here. > >To print locally, > >you'll need to use Jscript of something similar on the local end. > >I've only seen this work in IE, but I haven't looked into it too > >deeply. To print to the server, you'll probably need to shell out to > >the OS. > > Using javascript window.print() I get the print dialogue box. But what > I needed was I have got a text file which on server I can print using lp > <filename>. Similar thing but without any print dialogue box at the > client end. Exactly, this is a client-side problem (Javascript, ActiveX/script, etc). -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-db ------------------------------------------ /* Firmware update in the coffee machine */