RE: php and local printing

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Have you looked into the exec() function?  Maybe exec("lpr something or
other") may work, though I haven't tried it myself ...

Regards,
    Matthew Moldvan

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-----Original Message-----
From: Rajesh Fowkar [mailto:Mail@dempos.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 12:21 AM
To: PHP-DB Mailing List
Subject: Re:  php and local printing


On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:45:54AM -0800, Mark wrote:

>It dopesn't seem like you got an answer to this. 

Spot on. Yours is the first reply.

>To print locally,
>you'll need to use Jscript of something similar on the local end.
>I've only seen this work in IE, but I haven't looked into it too
>deeply. To print to the server, you'll probably need to shell out to
>the OS.

Using javascript window.print() I get the print dialogue box. But what
I needed was I have got a text file which on server I can print using lp
<filename>. Similar thing but without any print dialogue box at the
client end.

>
>HTH or at least starts a discussion...

Hope so.

Thank you for the reply.

Peace

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