Re: remote printing?

On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, peter tatischev wrote: > Hey, > i need a solution for a catering company that > would automatically print out the orders on their > kitchen printer. > They get their orders from web, and they're stored in several mySQL > tables. Somebody told me that the Kron module (for scheduled mySQL > queries) and JetDirect can be the solution, but I don't know anything > else about it? > Any suggestions? > Hi Peter, What is your configuration ? Are you using PHP on Windows by any chance ? If you are running it in some sort of UNIX, you could create a CRON job to run a php script, get all the new orders from the web, and execute an external command to print the orders. Maybe you would need to create temporary files with the orders taken out from the database to do this, but it's not so hard after all. Regards, Joao -- Joao Prado Maia Web Developer Kefta, Inc. T: (415) 391-6881 ext 8008 F: (415) 391-7079