Re: PHP Automation
| From: | Richard Lynch | Date: | Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:33:06 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP Automation | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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On Mon, June 19, 2006 8:32 am, Jef Sullivan wrote:
> I have a situation that I'm not sure how it can be done with PHP. I
> have
> written a web-application that produces
>
> a monthly statement for our customers. Now, I need to automate the
> printing of these monthly statements.
>
> The way I was thinking of doing this was through Perl. However, I have
> discovered that a Perl script will not
> work.
Errrr. A Perl script would work if you could learn Perl...
> I know I can build the URL to the monthly statement. What I don't know
> how to do is automate this process
On Un*x, use "man 5 crontab" in the shell, or Google for it.
On Windows, set up a "Scheduled Task"
> and get it to print to a specific printer. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
You're on your own for getting a printer to work...
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