Re: GPS Locator
| From: | Richard Lynch | Date: | Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:42:22 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: GPS Locator | ||
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Almost for sure, browser security will not let you do this in a web
browser.
You'll probably have to write a custom desktop C application, or get
the user to install some kind of glue widget...
PEAR|PECL *might* have some USB stuff in a library you could use to
write the PHP desktop widget and keep this on-topic, but I dunno...
On Tue, March 4, 2008 10:18 am, Jay Blanchard wrote:
> Howdy group!
>
> I know that this is not a PHP question (but it will work with a PHP
> app)
> but I thought I would ask the smartest group of people I know if they
> have any clue or would be familiar with a device I can use. I need to
> purchase a small GPS receiver/antenna that will plug into a USB port.
> Then I need to access the port (Ajax? Java?) while in my web
> application
> to deliver the coordinates to my PHP application. That will give me
> the
> physical location of the machine accessing the application.
>
> Any insight will be valuable.
>
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