Hey,
If anyone has any better solutions too, let me know, I'm open to anything.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fotwun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 5:32 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP] Mixing PHP with a FAX Gateway? HELP!!! IDEAS???
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>
>
>
> 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
>
>
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