Re: Printing

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Jim Giner <jim.giner@albanyhandball.com> wrote: > My first attempt to print something to a printer. > I actually just went ahead and tried this from my website: > $hdl = printer_open(); > printer_write($hdl,"This is my printed page"); > printer_write($hdl,"This is line 1"); > printer_write($hdl,"This is line 2"); > printer_write($hdl,"This is line 3"); > printer_close($hdl); > > > The error I got was:  Fatal error: Call to undefined function printer_open() > in ..... > > Reading in the manual I find the following conflicting statements: >  1) These functions are only available under Windows 9.x, ME, NT4 and 2000. > They have been added in PHP 4.0.4. > 2) No external libraries are needed to build this extension. > > 3) This » PECL extension is not bundled with PHP. Windows users must enable > php_printer.dll inside of php.ini in order to use these functions. A DLL for > this PECL extension is currently unavailable. See also the building on > Windows section. > > ******** > > I'm not sure what all those tidbits of information are telling me.  Are they > outdated?  Is there some other chapter in the manual  I should read?  I only > looked in "Printer". > > FWIW - I'm running windows xp on my client.  My host runs Apache and 2.2.21 > and PHP 5.3.6. > > My question is:  Is there something I (me!) have to do to get printing to > function in my domain's PHP install? > It is PECL extension not bundled by default - www.php.net/manual/en/printer.installation.php -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com