RE: PHP 4 Printing Question

From: Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 07:07:29 +0000
Subject: RE: PHP 4 Printing Question
Groups: php.windows 
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>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. Internet Explorer should give you all the flexibility you need, such as Page breaks, Headers, Footers. Another option is generating a PDF Document or if you clients are Windows a MS Word dokument on the fly and sending it to the client. PDF is not hard at all with PHP. See the manual examples! > >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? -- Florian Clever fc@clever-soft.com http://www.Clever-Software-Solutions.de/ PGP Key @ ldap://certserver.pgp.net/ "I do not think," said Descartes, and promptly disappeared.

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