LXXXVII. Funzioni per le Stampanti

Introduzione

Queste funzioni sono disponibili solo nei sistemi Windows 9.x, ME, NT4 e 2000. Sono state aggiunte in PHP 4.0.4.

Installazione

Aggiungere la linea extension=php_printer.dll al file php.ini .

Configurazione di Runtime

Il comportamento di queste funzioni � influenzato dalle impostazioni di php.ini.

Tabella 1. Parametri di configurazione per il modulo stampante

Nome	Default	Modificabile
printer.default_printer	""	PHP_INI_ALL

Per maggiori dettagli sulle costanti PHP_INI_* vedere ini_set().

Sommario
printer_abort -- Cancella il file di spool dalla stampante
printer_close -- Chiude una connessione aperta verso una stampante
printer_create_brush -- Crea un nuovo pennello
printer_create_dc -- Crea un nuovo device context
printer_create_font -- Crea un nuovo font
printer_create_pen -- Crea una nuova penna
printer_delete_brush -- Cancella un pennello
printer_delete_dc -- Cancella un device context
printer_delete_font -- Cancella un font
printer_delete_pen -- Cancella una penna
printer_draw_bmp -- Disegna una bitmap
printer_draw_chord -- Traccia una corda
printer_draw_elipse -- Traccia una ellisse
printer_draw_line -- Traccia una linea
printer_draw_pie -- Traccia una grafico a torta
printer_draw_rectangle -- Traccia un rettangolo
printer_draw_roundrect -- Traccia un rettangolo con gli angoli arrotondati
printer_draw_text -- Scrive un testo
printer_end_doc -- Chiude il documento
printer_end_page -- Chiude la pagina attiva
printer_get_option -- Recupera la configurazione della stampante
printer_list -- Restituisce un elenco delle stampanti collegate al server
printer_logical_fontheight -- Restituisce l'altezza logica del font
printer_open -- Apre la connessione ad una stampante
printer_select_brush -- Seleziona un pennello
printer_select_font -- Seleziona un font
printer_select_pen -- Seleziona una penna
printer_set_option -- Configura la connessione con la stampante
printer_start_doc -- Inizia un nuovo documento
printer_start_page -- Inizia una nuova pagina
printer_write -- Scrive dei dati sulla stampante

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Funzioni per le Stampanti

jason at matteson dot com
11-Mar-2004 09:01


You can print in XP. AND, you can print to a shared printer with XP. The drivers for the printer MUST be installed on ther server as well as on the computer you wish to print with. Also, the printer must be shared on the client computer.



I am using a Zebra LP2844 Thermal Barcode Printer in my application. I am running XP Pro,Apache 1.3.27, PHP 4.3+.



Here is a function I use in our churches checkin system.  I use this to print directly to our printer with out having to use any Javascript.



First, i give the function the name of the shared printer. 



Second, I get the client computers host name. You could use just REMOTE_ADDR too I suppose.



Then I return a correctly formatted Windows path to the shared printer for the 



function getPrinter($SharedPrinterName) {

    global $REMOTE_ADDR;

    $host  =  getHostByAddr($REMOTE_ADDR);

    return "\\\\".$host."\\".$SharedPrinterName;

}



$handle  =  printer_open(getPrinter("Eltron"));



So, as long as you KNOW the computers are suppose to have a shared printer called "Eltron", you're all set to start sending info to the printer with the other Printer functions.



-j

macagomez at yahoo dot com
27-Jul-2003 08:35


Please notice that what is printed is NOT measured in pixels, it is measured in pronter's dots.

Apply to fonts, coordinates and bit maps.

HW
04-May-2003 09:31


Should be pretty obvious, but in case there is any confusion...

The printer in question is one that is connected to the _server_, not the _client_.

jwlash at acm dot org
20-Feb-2003 05:40


I have noticed the for unix based systems you can also do this:



system("lp $filename") 



:)

surak at surak dot eti dot br
04-Feb-2003 04:30


[Editor's Note]


There is another free one available at http://www.fpdf.org/


[/Note]





As Bert said, a pdf generator wouldn't be bad. There is a free one at http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf/ , which can do the job. Inspite of the fact it is a little bit rough, it works fine and quite fast. It's just a matter of throwing the pdf file to ghostscript print it.

bertATnerdstockDOTorg
20-Jan-2003 10:22


If you want to address the printer from your PHP-application in a Un*x environment:

This is possible if you use a different method.

In Unix it would not be logical to address your printer directly from php, but you could for instance generate a PDF-file with PDFlib (or a textfile, or a PNG/JPEG image with GD or what have you) and write it from your php-script to a directory that you use as a "printer-outbox."



Next, you write a shellscript that calls some unix tool to print all pdf or other documents in your "outbox" directory and then deletes all files in that directory.



Then you use crontab to run this script every minute or as often as you think it's neccessary.



You could of course also call the shellscript from your php-application with exec() but you'll probably want to avoid using exec() and the like for security reasons.

kincaic at swbell dot net
22-May-2002 03:23


The X and Y co-ordinates are in dots.  



Get the printer resolution BEFORE printing anything and convert all co-orditantes to dots in the current resolution.  



Trying to change the resolution does NOT work in Win2000.



Anybody know where the source to php_printer.dll is kept?  I would like to fix some of the bugs that I have found.

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