Re: PHP 4 Printing Question

Have a look at the printer extension, available on WinNT. The extension enables a PHP script to control a windows printer (local or remote). If you need binaries blease let me know. - Frank >My company is developing an application where we use a web browser to record >attendees at a group function and we want to use PHP 4 for the development. > >One of the application requirements is to print an ticket to go into a prize >drawing. We know how to use the html print function; but that doesn't really >give us the printing flexibility that we need. > >What we are envisioning is creating a PHP script, running on a WinNT server >(where PHP 4 lives), that runs every minute. The script would read a db >table looking for tickets to print, access another db table to select and >format the print file and write it to a networked windows printer. Is it >possible for a PHP script to write to a windows printer like this? > >Ron Woods/GAI >Sr. Software Engineer >1777 N.E. Loop 410 >Suite 600 >San Antonio, TX 78217 >Tel: 210-820-2615 >Fax: 210-832-0487 >http://www.gai-inc.com ><http://www.gai-inc.com> > > >