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 --------------------------------------- System Administrator Trilogy International, Inc http://www.trilogyintl.com/ecommerce/ --------------------------------------- -----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 -- Rajesh : ####[ GNU/Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]####################### Sub : Linux Commands (#4) LOST #056 For a newbie introduction to Linux commands and shotcuts visit URL: http://sunsite.dk/linux-newbie/Linux_commands.htm ####<mithun.b@egurucool.com>################################## : -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php