Re: AW: [PHP] Sending the output of a web page to a printer
| From: | Vern | Date: | Wed, 21 Jul 2004 21:42:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: AW: [PHP] Sending the output of a web page to a printer | ||
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OK, but here's the rub:
I need to print a web page. Any ideas?
"Jan Tore Morken" <schabuda@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:ccaafd8a04072114315a7da5d6@mail.gmail.com...
> Yes, it's possible, I've done it myself.
>
> Here is a piece of example code:
> $handle = popen("lpr -P printer", "w");
> fwrite($handle, $message."\n");
> pclose($handle);
>
> Hope this can help you a bit. To see what I used it for, check this
> out: http://www.wobbled.org/printer/
>
> Regards,
> Jan Tore Morken
>
>
> On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:16:31 -0400, Vern <vernon@comp-wiz.com> wrote:
> > I need to send the output of a web page to a printer on a schedule
> > (obviously I'll use a cron job for scheduling) and am wondering if I can
do
> > this through php. I know you can use the command line lpr in SSH but can
I
> > use PHP do do it?