keyboard shortcuts

Is there a way to use PHP to make keyboard shortcuts for buttons and other form inputs like with "e&nter" or something to that effect? Jerry Lake - jerryl@europa.com Web Designer Europa Communications - http://www.europa.com Pacifier Online - http://www.pacifier.com -----Original Message----- From: Matthias Endler [mailto:endler@upsys.de] Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 4:38 PM To: Chris Aitken Cc: PHP-GENERAL Subject: RE: [PHP] Com Port Access - Take 2 Hi Chris, > >(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). > > Okay, now my problem is, I dont know what applications I need to > install on > my unix box to have console access to the serial port. I have > used Minicom > to access it, but minicom is unable to be launched by popen() because its > not command line. > > Do you, or anyone else have any suggestions of a good tool to use that > works well with php so I can access the serial port ? if /dev/ttyS0 is your serialport, you could simply do a: system("echo -n 'hello' > /dev/ttyS0"); the only thing is that you need proper permissions set for /dev/ttyS0 (symlink), so your webserver user can write to it. I'm not sure how to read from it though. Cheers, Matthias -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net