Re: [PHP] Till Drawers
This one time, at band camp, Oli Howson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm interested in the possibility of connecting a computer running A
> PHP server to a till drawer and have the server able to open the
> drawer. Anyone know how this would work?
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I simple wrote a small C program that basically sent a bell, 0x07
and it opened my cash drawer. In php I just did system('bell'); and
it worked fine.
Kevin
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Re: [PHP] Till Drawers
On Fri, February 3, 2006 5:25 am, Oli Howson wrote: > I'm interested in the possibility of connecting a computer running A > PHP server to a till drawer and have the server able to open the > drawer. Anyone know how this would work? I think there's a PHP extension to poke codes out the COM ports of a Windows PC, which would probably then have a standard connector and API for opening most cash registers... You're on your own finding the right extension, and DEFINITELY on your own finding the API for your model of cach register. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Till Drawers
Albert wrote: Oli Howson wrote: I'm interested in the possibility of connecting a computer running A PHP server to a till drawer and have the server able to open the drawer. Anyone know how this would work? That all depends on how your till drawer opens. The easiest would be to write a command line utility in C which opens your cash drawer. When you need to open the drawer you run the application from the PHP script using exec(). Albert yeah I think you would send through a serial command to the drawer, AFAIK you can get the commands from the manual of the till drawer. You also get till drawers that kick open when you print, that is if you want the till to open each time you print... Let us know if you come right and what you did to do it succsssfully. Angelo -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Till Drawers
Oli Howson wrote: > I'm interested in the possibility of connecting a computer running A > PHP server to a till drawer and have the server able to open the > drawer. Anyone know how this would work? That all depends on how your till drawer opens. The easiest would be to write a command line utility in C which opens your cash drawer. When you need to open the drawer you run the application from the PHP script using exec(). Albert -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.0/249 - Release Date: 2006/02/02 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
