note 89731 modified in function.printer-open by danbrown

I had been playing around with trying to get PHP to print to a network server off and on for quite some time, and I finally came across somebody who had the piece of the puzzle I've been missing. Like I said, the printer I've been trying to print to is a network printer, so I had been trying to open the printer as follows: <?php printer_open("\\\\servername\\printername"); ?> What I had been missing is that the function needed the internet host name of the server, which includes the domain name. So, let's say my print server was called "PServer" and my network's domain was called php.net: <?php printer_open("\\\\Pserver.php.net\\printername"); ?> This will more than likely work, then you can open and print a file as follows: <?php $printer = "\\\\Pserver.php.net\\printername"); if($ph = printer_open($printer)) { // Get file contents $fh = fopen("filename.ext", "rb"); $content = fread($fh, filesize("filename.ext")); fclose($fh); // Set print mode to RAW and send PDF to printer printer_set_option($ph, PRINTER_MODE, "RAW"); printer_write($ph, $content); printer_close($ph); } else "Couldn't connect..."; ?> --was-- I had been playing around with trying to get PHP to print to a network server off and on for quite some time, and I finally came across somebody who had the piece of the puzzle I've been missing. Like I said, the printer I've been trying to print to is a network printer, so I had been trying to open the printer as follows: printer_open("\\\\servername\\printername"); What I had been missing is that the function needed the internet host name of the server, which includes the domain name. So, let's say my print server was called "PServer" and my network's domain was called php.net: printer_open("\\\\Pserver.php.net\\printername"); This will more than likely work, then you can open and print a file as follows: $printer = "\\\\Pserver.php.net\\printername"); if($ph = printer_open($printer)) { // Get file contents $fh = fopen("filename.ext", "rb"); $content = fread($fh, filesize("filename.ext")); fclose($fh); // Set print mode to RAW and send PDF to printer printer_set_option($ph, PRINTER_MODE, "RAW"); printer_write($ph, $content); printer_close($ph); } else "Couldn't connect..."; http://php.net/manual/en/function.printer-open.php