Dear users, My apologize, but my knowledge in Internet Programming Technologies is very poor (actually it is realy very very poor). Anyway, I have a request to set up WIN CE Terminal Clients for my software product (Written in C/C++). The point is, I do not want to write the whole application on the CE. What I realy want to do is using a kind of Client / Server architecture to set up this software. For this reason in my thinking the best solution would be to use PHP because there should be an IE on each WIN CE System available.
So far so good, before I decide to go along this way I would need some informations and hopefully somebody could answer them. Nr 1: There is a lot of source code already available -> it is (unfortunaly) written in a C-Based DLL. Can I have access to those functions from PHP ? Can I integrate this DLL in my PHP Server application? Nr 2 (a realy tricky one): As my application is using scanners (for barcodes, ...) I have to check the validation of the barcode and the type of barcode. Usually for external scanners there is a kind of interface (DLL on the client, or Library) which I can use and attach, where I can switch the configuration of the scanner with each scan - it means I can send the scanner if I expect a barcode TYP1, or barcode TYP2 and how long the input will be, ....(in best case). One possibility in my thinking could be to write a "native CE Program" which does that transforming and communication for my WEB Based Client on the CE machine (the CE would only communicate with this program (for scanning)) - could that be working?! .... and how can I access this program from the PHP Application (Client Side)?! ... I hope anybody out there can here my questions and got some ideas if it is possible - and if it is possible, which way could be chosen. At least I hope somebody can understand my poor english too ;-)) Best regards Markus -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
