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FrancisV
FrancisV

Reputation: 1709

Printing solution for PHP web app

We're developing a web application (written in PHP) for a company and they have remote branches with a decent connectivity to the internet. I'm looking for a solution to allow the remote branch to:

  1. Print receipts using a thermal printer
  2. Print label for package using a barcode printer

Is there a single hardware solution that can do the 2 functions? Since the web app doesn't have any concept of a locally-attached printer, is it possible to send the data over the network and to the printer? What are the alternatives?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 791

Answers (1)

Dan Grossman
Dan Grossman

Reputation: 52372

PHP isn't really the right platform to talk to printers. Why don't you write a desktop application in a language with better OS API hooks (C/C++/C#/VB/Java/etc) that makes an HTTP/TCP request over the network to the PHP app, whose response tells it whatever it needs to print. The local app at the branch does the printing.

Upvotes: 2

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