Last updated: Fri, 18 May 2012

printer_open

(PECL printer SVN)

printer_open — Erstellt eine Verbindung zu einem Drucker

Beschreibung

mixed printer_open ([ string $devicename ] )

Diese Funktion versucht eine Verbindung zum Drucker devicename herzustellen. Bei erfolgreichem Aufbau einer Verbindung wird ein Druckerhandler zurückgeliefert, ansonsten FALSE

Wenn keine Parameter übergeben werden, wird versucht eine Verbindung zum Standarddrucker herzustellen. (Falls kein Standarddrucker in php.ini als printer.default_printer angegeben ist, versucht PHP diesen zu ermitteln).

printer_open() startet auch einen Gerätekontext.

Beispiel #1 printer_open() Beispiel


<?php
$handle = printer_open("HP Deskjet 930c");
$handle = printer_open();
?>

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knightcon at bluebottle dot com
15-Dec-2006 02:04


If you are desperate to do server-side printing with PHP on a *nix machine then you can always use the fsockopen() function and send a pre-build PJL (Printer Job Language) string directly to the printer. As long as your printer supports PJL then there should be no problem. Just also bare in mind that unless you are doing something very special, like sending the print job to a remote printer and not the printer the client is at you should just make a report page generated by php and apply a css stylesheet which makes the page styled for printing.

philip
30-Mar-2005 12:39


This function may also return NULL on failure, instead of FALSE.

jt at jtis dot de
31-Aug-2004 12:39


Revision: Single quotes DO work, but with a triple slash, like

printer_open('\\\SERVERNAME\PRINTERNAME');



Weird.

jasonlam_ at hotmail dot com
05-Jun-2003 01:22


Connecting to Network Printers


<?php


   $handle = printer_open("\\\\DOMAIN_NAME\\Printer_Name");


?>


Similiar to how you would locate a domain on your network


you need to have 2 prefix slashes.  But as reminder 


you need to escape it.  So really you need 4 slashes.  It 


worked me. Hopefully this helps who is having problems 


connecting to network printer.

csammis at iastate dot edu
01-May-2002 04:38


As stated on the index page for all the printer functions, these are supported under Win32 *only*...in fact, they're frontends API calls. I'd go ahead and say that they would probably never be ported to *nix because of the many various ways of handling printers. Windows, for all its faults, at least has a unified printing system.



As to editing the php.ini, try it with no path at all, like the first example here

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Last updated: Fri, 18 May 2012