Re: Serveside Printing w/ PHP

> 4 - And just found it. WordPad comes with Windows, so, maybe > PHP+COM+WordPad > (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/51y8h3tk(v=vs.80).aspx) could > be another option here. I think WordPad is just a visual wrapper for > the RichEdit20 ActiveX component which is controllable via COM. > > By using templates, you could create appropriate files manually in > WordPad and then just do a search/replace in PHP, load into RichEdit > and print. Theoretically, a simple process. This is the solution I'm working with except instead of WordPad I'm using Internet Explorer and letting it parse the HTML and print. Required a bit of fudging around with Apache permissions on the server, probably giving it more power than it should, but for this project it's a one-off local-only website so it shouldn't be a problem. I followed the first example in this article: http://thefrozenfire.com/2011/02/using-the-windows-com-in-php/ Marc