Re: GPS Locator

On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 11:42 -0600, Richard Lynch wrote: > 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... DIO should let you do it, but that extension is pretty buggy last I used it (OK like 5 years back with PHP4). What I did was got high end barcode scanners to scan directly into a db through a long running PHP script with it, so that should work just fine. That being said, though, something like a Winders COM object will probably be a better bet (I have never used COM objects before as I don't use Windows at all, ever) so correct me if I am wrong please! --Paul