RE: [PHP] Mixing PHP with a FAX Gateway? HELP!!! IDEAS???

Hey, If anyone has any better solutions too, let me know, I'm open to anything. > -----Original Message----- > From: Fotwun [mailto:fotwun@softhome.net] > Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 5:32 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Mixing PHP with a FAX Gateway? HELP!!! IDEAS??? > > > > > Hey, > > I'm wondering if anyone here has any experiencing mixing webware > with a FAX > solution on the unix platform, particulary FreeBSD 4.2. > > I have 2 seperate possilble solutions here. The first involves > faxing using > software configured on the server. The 2nd is a PHP type > solution, capturing > HTML from a URL and assembling it into an attachment for email. > Please give > me any thoughts you can offer on these. > > What I currently have is a e-commerce solution I wrote in PHP. There are > pages that are generated (sort of like a populated form) that need to be > faxed. This is all theory I am talking right now, because I have > never done > anything like this, including just faxing from a server. > > Now, what would it entail to get our dedicated server preped to do faxing > for starters. It's at our colo facility and gobs of bandwidth. > Obviously we > have no modem connected at this point, and I don't even know if an actual > phone line would be available to us. So, what I am guessing is that there > are services that offer dial-out gateways for faxing and such, over the > Internet. Where, our software can send data to a faxing gateway, which in > turn sends the fax through their lines. Anyone know of any services like > this? > > Also, what type of faxing software is available on FreeBSD? How does it > integrate with actual means of faxing (gateways/modem) etc. > > Basically, the whole fax over server thing is new to me, and I'm trying to > see if anyone has any experience at all doing this. The goal is: when you > are looking at this rendered HTML page, you have a button that says "Fax" > and when you click on it, the web page you are looking at is faxed off, > through the server, looking just as it appeared on the screen basically > (which merely consists of text in tables, and a couple <HR>'s). > The goal is > to make this as seamless as possible. > > 2nd solution------------- > Now, eFax offers you a service where you can send an email, containing an > attachment, such as .html and it will render the email and attachments and > fax them off like they look. This would not be such a bad idea, > but we want > to avoid people having to manually "Send Page By Email" through > outlook each > time. What I am thinking if I can capture the HTML that is generated from > the script (ie- showdetails.php?order_id=432) and then create an > attachment > of that HTML (ie- my_attachment_to_fax.html) and then send it > through email > ( function mail(); ) that would be perfect. Anyone have any code on how > capture the HTML from a URL (fopen(); ?) and then assemble that into an > attachment (.html / correct mime type/headers) and send it off? > > Sound plausible? > > Please give me any insight to either of these methods. Thank you. > > Fotwun > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >