RE: [PHP] Com Port Access - Take 2

Hi Chris, > Sorry about the double message. I was kindly reminded I left off some > valuable info (OS type etc) so here is the email again with the info > > __________________________________________________________________ > ___________ > > Ive been looking and have not been successful in finding any > answers, so I > figured I would see if anyone on the list has had any success. > > What I want to be able to do is, from a PHP script, access the > servers com > port. I have a unit attached to the com port of a FreeBSD 3.4 Stable box > running PHP 4.0b4, and want to be able to send it data, based on a php > script (and associated form). > > If anyone can point me in the right direction of where to start looking, > that would be great. there are two approaches to your problem. (1) the easy way You have a commandline tool to control the device on serialport, then you can simply use PHP's popen()-function (http://au.php.net:81/manual/function.popen.php). (2) the hard way You write your own php-extension. This needs a solid understanding of the Zend API and of course you should know how to program in C (http://www.zend.com/zend/api.php). Cheers, Matthias