RE: Option for Serial or Comm port communication with PHP?

I don't about accessing a serial port directly from PHP, but you can control an X10 Firecracker on a Linix/BSD system by using the exec() command to run BottleRocket: http://mlug.missouri.edu/~tymm/ I threw together a script that would turn a lamp on and off from a web page without to much difficulty. As if that wasn't geeky enough, I pointed a webcam at it so that people could watch the light go on and off as they clicked the link. :) Having the light turn on and off without warning got old pretty quickly, so I took the script down... neat stuff, though! -Andy > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Lancaster [mailto:dlancast@bellsouth.net] > I was hoping to work on a hairbrained idea that would allow me to > use php to > control an X10 or other serial device (security system, irrigation > controller, etc,). I have read several hints at using the fopen > function to > do serial communications but these posts were a year old. Is it possbile > to do serial communications using php. What are the options? > > Thanks in advance for your help.