RE: [PHP] Controlling a scanner with PHP

At 11:33 AM 6/27/2006, Arno Kuhl wrote:

-----Original Message----- From: Stut [mailto:stuttle@gmail.com] Sent: 27 June 2006 03:11 To: Peter Lauri Cc: 'George Pitcher'; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Controlling a scanner with PHP Peter Lauri wrote: Probably nobody, as PHP is a Server Side Scripting Language. If there's one thing I hate it's needless pigeonholing. PHP is not a "Server Side Scripting Language". It is a scripting language for sure, but is by no means limited to being used on a server never mind on a web server. -Stut ------------------------------------- Stut, that's an interesting point you raised. I know it's moving off the original topic, but when you say "by no means limited to being used on a server never mind on a web server", what is it that interprets the code and where does the output go to, or the input come from? I also thought it always had to be run under a web server, and would be interested to know what the other options/opportunities are. Cheers Arno

Arno, You can do the cron job thing and call it from the command line. You can also write GUI apps using PHP-GTK+. It's sort of in transition now between version 1 and version 2. Did this for a client as there was some database work we wanted to do on the local machine, fetching information from time to time from the database on the web. Works quite well and is saving them a lot of time. By now we're way OT on the scanner question. <g> Cheers - Miles Thompson -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.5/376 - Release Date: 6/26/2006