While this has deteriorated way off topic from PHP, I will just mention that I've purchased several GPS from these cats and had great luck: http://www.buygpsnow.com You *might* be able to write a custom PHP extension that you compile into PHP that can access the USB/Serial port as well. (and if you did got this route, which would be the most beneficial to the PHP community, I hope you would FOSS the extension so other's could use it perhaps) http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/1021 Secondly, maybe you could have a little daemon written that simply spits out the coordinates (lat/long/altitude/etc.) to a socket or something, and then via PHP's socket functions you could continually read that in. Alternatively, perhaps JAVA will also let you access hardware layers if you're on a non Microsoft platform (which is generally the case for PHP users). Lastly, you could certainly do some low level hardware I/O with Ruby and then perhaps use Rails for the web portion. Chalk this all under the "best tool for the job" category, in this case I doubt PHP is. Daevid. Remember, when coding, php.net and google are friends. Everyone else hates you. It is not personal, it's just a fact. --Stephen Johnson (12/03/07) > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Scott [mailto:pscott@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 9:46 AM > To: ceo@xxxxxxxxx > Cc: Jay Blanchard; [php] PHP General List > Subject: Re: GPS Locator > > > On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 11:42 -0600, Richard Lynch wrote: > > Almost for sure, browser security will not let you do this in a web > > browser. > > > > You'll probably have to write a custom desktop C application, or get > > the user to install some kind of glue widget... > > > > PEAR|PECL *might* have some USB stuff in a library you could use to > > write the PHP desktop widget and keep this on-topic, but I dunno... > > DIO should let you do it, but that extension is pretty buggy > last I used > it (OK like 5 years back with PHP4). > > What I did was got high end barcode scanners to scan directly > into a db > through a long running PHP script with it, so that should work just > fine. > > That being said, though, something like a Winders COM object will > probably be a better bet (I have never used COM objects before as I > don't use Windows at all, ever) so correct me if I am wrong please! > > --Paul > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
