Re: Direct output to printer

Ah, the joys of strlen(). That's your first question, but now for the second. Sending data directly to the printer is basically a client side function, and as PHP is totally server side it just can't do it. Not technologically possible. There are some "printer direct" type programs around, and you can certainly figure out a way to make PHP work with those, but that's about all you can do. -- Plutarck Should be working on something... ...but forgot what it was. ""Tim Legg-Bagg"" <tim@leggbagg.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message news:001001c0bdc7$e63a5ce0$f062893e@tim... Hi Can you help please. I have just started to experiment with PHP and I am impressed with the power of the language. But (isn't there always) 2 things: 1 Very minor and can be worked around very easily. I cannot find a PHP function to return the length of a string. Can MySql's LENGTH function be used. 2 This is causing me grief: I want to be able to send a text file directly to the printer without first displaying it and going through the print dialog. Your help will be much appreciated. TIA Tim Legg-Bagg