Hey, I'm wondering if anyone here has any experiencing mixing webware with a FAX solution on the unix platform, particulary FreeBSD 4.2. I have 2 seperate possilble solutions here. The first involves faxing using software configured on the server. The 2nd is a PHP type solution, capturing HTML from a URL and assembling it into an attachment for email. Please give me any thoughts you can offer on these. What I currently have is a e-commerce solution I wrote in PHP. There are pages that are generated (sort of like a populated form) that need to be faxed. This is all theory I am talking right now, because I have never done anything like this, including just faxing from a server. Now, what would it entail to get our dedicated server preped to do faxing for starters. It's at our colo facility and gobs of bandwidth. Obviously we have no modem connected at this point, and I don't even know if an actual phone line would be available to us. So, what I am guessing is that there are services that offer dial-out gateways for faxing and such, over the Internet. Where, our software can send data to a faxing gateway, which in turn sends the fax through their lines. Anyone know of any services like this? Also, what type of faxing software is available on FreeBSD? How does it integrate with actual means of faxing (gateways/modem) etc. Basically, the whole fax over server thing is new to me, and I'm trying to see if anyone has any experience at all doing this. The goal is: when you are looking at this rendered HTML page, you have a button that says "Fax" and when you click on it, the web page you are looking at is faxed off, through the server, looking just as it appeared on the screen basically (which merely consists of text in tables, and a couple <HR>'s). The goal is to make this as seamless as possible. 2nd solution------------- Now, eFax offers you a service where you can send an email, containing an attachment, such as .html and it will render the email and attachments and fax them off like they look. This would not be such a bad idea, but we want to avoid people having to manually "Send Page By Email" through outlook each time. What I am thinking if I can capture the HTML that is generated from the script (ie- showdetails.php?order_id=432) and then create an attachment of that HTML (ie- my_attachment_to_fax.html) and then send it through email ( function mail(); ) that would be perfect. Anyone have any code on how capture the HTML from a URL (fopen(); ?) and then assemble that into an attachment (.html / correct mime type/headers) and send it off? Sound plausible? Please give me any insight to either of these methods. Thank you. Fotwun -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
