PHP: Printing Nightmare PECL

[Pseudo_bot]

Hey,

Am busy developing a system that prints labels via a thermal printer.

I have installed the printer can print test pages.

I was told the best way to do this was to use the PECL Printer library/extension

Which I found at:

http://pecl.php.net/get/printer

But the "File was not found"

I spend most of yesterday trying to find a mirror or alternative.

Can anyone recomend anything that will work?

Thanks

 

[ColinR]

can confirm its not just you

File not found

How about pdf autoprint - I'm sure I read it somewhere along the line.

 

[Nod]

It seems that there had been no releases, according to this page: http://pecl.php.net/package/printer

Could find the "php_printer.dll" for the windows version of PHP: http://www.dlldll.com/php_printer.dll_download.html

 

[Pseudo_bot]

@ Nod

Thanks for that link, will be looking into that.

Is the use of Printers and PHP...Rare?

I would have thought more people would be making use of this.

But there seems to be very little out there.

 

[Nod]

@ Nod

Thanks for that link, will be looking into that.

Is the use of Printers and PHP...Rare?

I would have thought more people would be making use of this.

But there seems to be very little out there.

It seems so. I haven't used it for printing at all. Mostly web apps, and the occasional csv file processing / report generating.