Re: [PHP] Direct output to printer

2001-04-05 Thread Tim Legg-Bagg
Thank you folks for your speed of light answer. I must get some new specs, I spent a long time searching through Greenspan and Bulgers book for that. No problem finding it now.. The output to printer problem can now be rested Thanks again I owe you one Tim LB ""Knut H. Hassel Nielsen"" <[EMAI

Re: [PHP] Direct output to printer

2001-04-05 Thread Knut H. Hassel Nielsen
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Plutarck wrote: > Ah, the joys of strlen(). > > That's your first question, but now for the second. > > Sending data directly to the printer is basically a client side function, > and as PHP is totally server side it just can't do it. Not technologically > possible. > > There

Re: [PHP] Direct output to printer

2001-04-05 Thread Plutarck
Ah, the joys of strlen(). That's your first question, but now for the second. Sending data directly to the printer is basically a client side function, and as PHP is totally server side it just can't do it. Not technologically possible. There are some "printer direct" type programs around, and

[PHP] Direct output to printer

2001-04-05 Thread Tim Legg-Bagg
Hi Can you help please. I have just started to experiment with PHP and I am impressed with the power of the language. But (isn't there always) 2 things: 1 Very minor and can be worked around very easily. I cannot find a PHP function to return the length of a string. Can MySql's LENGTH function