php-windows Digest 24 Feb 2010 03:02:45 -0000 Issue 3767

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php-windows Digest 24 Feb 2010 03:02:45 -0000 Issue 3767

Topics (messages 29930 through 29937):


Re: PHP 5.12 and PDO OCI on Windows Server 2003 with IIS
        29930 by: José Moreira

Re: What about php 5.3 and printers or PHP_PRINTER.DLL ?
        29931 by: Venkat Raman Don
        29932 by: Venkat Raman Don
        29933 by: Keith Davis
        29936 by: Louis Solomon

Unable to load dynamic library php_ifx %1
        29934 by: Chris
        29935 by: Pierre Joye
        29937 by: Venkat Raman Don

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I already mentioned the reason of failure. It is strange that OpenPrinter 
function is passing but DocumentProperties is failing. Ideally once OpenPrinter 
passes, everything should go through. And the worst thing is that this is an 
abandoned package. I don't see any maintainer for it. Why don't use something 
else like FPDF or something else which is generally supported?

Thanks,
Don.

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Davis [mailto:keithda...@pridedallas.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 5:52 AM
To: Venkat Raman Don; Pierre Joye; Robert
Cc: php-wind...@lists.php.net
Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] What about php 5.3 and printers or PHP_PRINTER.DLL ?

Nope. I have an account called Test. It is not an Administrator account
(local or domain) and it can print to \\server05\Auth, but it fails here
too.

Keith Davis (214) 906-5183

-----Original Message-----
From: Venkat Raman Don [mailto:don.ra...@microsoft.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 4:30 PM
To: Keith Davis; Pierre Joye; Robert
Cc: php-wind...@lists.php.net
Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] What about php 5.3 and printers or
PHP_PRINTER.DLL ?

Hi,

I did some test on Windows7 as well as Windows Server 2008. I used
fastcgi.impersonate=1 in both the cases. On Windows 7 everything is
fine. From Windows Server 2008 I am getting below error:

Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 524288) (tried to allocate
4294967295 bytes) in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\phptest\print.php on line 2

The test file 'print.php' is a simple PHP file where I am making one
call to printer_open.

So went and debugged the code. In the function printer_open
implementation, we make call to OpenPrinter and later to
DocumentProperties. For some reason (I haven't figured it yet),
OpenPrinter call is success whereas DocumentProperties fails and returns
a negative number. Now look at the code below:

if (OpenPrinter(resource->name, &resource->handle, NULL) != 0) {

                resource->pi2 = (PRINTER_INFO_2
*)emalloc(sizeof(PRINTER_INFO_2));

                resource->pi2->pDevMode = (DEVMODE
*)emalloc(DocumentProperties(NULL, NULL, resource->name, NULL, NULL,
0));

                if (DocumentProperties(NULL, resource->handle,
resource->name, resource->pi2->pDevMode, NULL, DM_OUT_BUFFER) == IDOK) {

Above the code tries to use Zend allocator to allocate memory assuming
DocumentProperties returned a valid value (here the actual size).
However DocumentProperties returned a negative value meaning failure and
I believe this value is treated as unsigned integer leading to a huge
value and thus the above message.

Regarding why DocumentProperties fails, I am not very sure. And this
happens on Win2k3 too. Look at the bug reported at
http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=12293 long time back.

Keith, you can try accessing the printer under a normal account and
which is not part of administrator group and see if this helps. Ensure
that the normal user has permission to access the printer.

Thanks,
Don.

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Davis [mailto:keithda...@pridedallas.com]
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 6:14 AM
To: Pierre Joye; Robert
Cc: php-wind...@lists.php.net
Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] What about php 5.3 and printers or
PHP_PRINTER.DLL ?

Well, I'm on Server 2003, and I still cannot print. It only works with
impersonate turned off, and that is not a solution, as I need to connect
to remote files. 

Keith Davis (214) 906-5183

-----Original Message-----
From: Pierre Joye [mailto:pierre....@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 8:11 AM
To: Robert
Cc: php-wind...@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] What about php 5.3 and printers or
PHP_PRINTER.DLL ?

hi,

It works just fine here, did you install the print server?

Cheers,

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Robert <effe....@virgilio.it> wrote:
> About no chance to print on a shared printer from windows server 2008.
>
> Please note that for some unknown reason, it is either impossible to 
> mount a shared printer on windows server 2008. Maybe that errors and 
> issues printing from php are connected to this issue.
>
> The only chance we had found to print on a shared printer from windows

> 2008, is to mount the printer as local printer and as port, to give 
> the full tcp/ip path + the shared name for the shared printer.
>
> Hope this can help anybody that have the same issue.
>
> Kind regards
>
>
> ""Keith Davis"" <keithda...@pridedallas.com> ha scritto nel messaggio 
> news:b0baccaa54a7cc479fb67d9494fb018a8cc...@dc01.pridedallas.com...
> How is that user specified?
>
>
>
> Keith Davis (214) 906-5183
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pierre Joye [mailto:pierre....@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 3:26 PM
> To: Keith Davis
> Cc: Robert; php-wind...@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] What about php 5.3 and printers or 
> PHP_PRINTER.DLL ?
>
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Keith Davis 
> <keithda...@pridedallas.com> wrote:
>> I found a post that said to set fastcgi.impersonate = 0 to fix this 
>> problem. It did.
>>
>> Can someone clarify what that setting does?
>
> It allows a server to run php-cgi under a given user. But that should 
> not affect printer at all, except if the user does not have the 
> permission to use this printer.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Pierre
>
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Richard, I tried that. I passed handle returned by OpenPrinter to 
DocumentProperties but same result. It's not that function fails for any bad 
parameter reason. I am getting error number 5 while calling GetLastError() 
which means some sort of access denied. But then why OpenPrinter is going 
through I am not able to understand.

Thanks,
Don.

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Quadling [mailto:rquadl...@googlemail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 1:28 AM
To: Venkat Raman Don
Cc: Keith Davis; Pierre Joye; Robert; php-wind...@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] What about php 5.3 and printers or PHP_PRINTER.DLL ?

On 22 February 2010 22:30, Venkat Raman Don <don.ra...@microsoft.com> wrote:
> DocumentProperties

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd183576(VS.85).aspx

LONG DocumentProperties(
  __in   HWND hWnd,
  __in   HANDLE hPrinter,
  __in   LPTSTR pDeviceName,
  __out  PDEVMODE pDevModeOutput,
  __in   PDEVMODE pDevModeInput,
  __in   DWORD fMode
);

If the fMode parameter is zero, the return value is the size of the
buffer required to contain the printer driver initialization data.
Note that this buffer can be larger than a DEVMODE structure if the
printer driver appends private data to the structure.

If the function displays the property sheet, the return value is
either IDOK or IDCANCEL, depending on which button the user selects.

If the function does not display the property sheet and is successful,
the return value is IDOK.

If the function fails, the return value is less than zero.

---------------------------------

No indication upon what the failure is from the call to
DocumentProperties, but I wonder if supplying Null for the first 2
parameters is appropriate. The second parameter is probably going to
have to be the handle returned by OpenPrinter.

But this is just me reading the MSDN pages. I'm no expert! Sorry.

Richard.
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"Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!"
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I will take a look at FPDF, but having the users have to first open a
PDF document and then print that creates it's own set of problems. We
have a extremely complex and integrated Intranet site that does all
kinds of reporting, and the area that it completely sucks is when it
comes to printing. Not having simple control over things like Landscape
versus Portrait or better page breaking drives us crazy. 

Keith Davis (214) 906-5183

-----Original Message-----
From: Venkat Raman Don [mailto:don.ra...@microsoft.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 10:46 AM
To: Keith Davis; Pierre Joye; Robert
Cc: php-wind...@lists.php.net
Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] What about php 5.3 and printers or
PHP_PRINTER.DLL ?

I already mentioned the reason of failure. It is strange that
OpenPrinter function is passing but DocumentProperties is failing.
Ideally once OpenPrinter passes, everything should go through. And the
worst thing is that this is an abandoned package. I don't see any
maintainer for it. Why don't use something else like FPDF or something
else which is generally supported?

Thanks,
Don.

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Davis [mailto:keithda...@pridedallas.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 5:52 AM
To: Venkat Raman Don; Pierre Joye; Robert
Cc: php-wind...@lists.php.net
Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] What about php 5.3 and printers or
PHP_PRINTER.DLL ?

Nope. I have an account called Test. It is not an Administrator account
(local or domain) and it can print to \\server05\Auth, but it fails here
too.

Keith Davis (214) 906-5183

-----Original Message-----
From: Venkat Raman Don [mailto:don.ra...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 4:30 PM
To: Keith Davis; Pierre Joye; Robert
Cc: php-wind...@lists.php.net
Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] What about php 5.3 and printers or
PHP_PRINTER.DLL ?

Hi,

I did some test on Windows7 as well as Windows Server 2008. I used
fastcgi.impersonate=1 in both the cases. On Windows 7 everything is
fine. From Windows Server 2008 I am getting below error:

Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 524288) (tried to allocate
4294967295 bytes) in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\phptest\print.php on line 2

The test file 'print.php' is a simple PHP file where I am making one
call to printer_open.

So went and debugged the code. In the function printer_open
implementation, we make call to OpenPrinter and later to
DocumentProperties. For some reason (I haven't figured it yet),
OpenPrinter call is success whereas DocumentProperties fails and returns
a negative number. Now look at the code below:

if (OpenPrinter(resource->name, &resource->handle, NULL) != 0) {

                resource->pi2 = (PRINTER_INFO_2
*)emalloc(sizeof(PRINTER_INFO_2));

                resource->pi2->pDevMode = (DEVMODE
*)emalloc(DocumentProperties(NULL, NULL, resource->name, NULL, NULL,
0));

                if (DocumentProperties(NULL, resource->handle,
resource->name, resource->pi2->pDevMode, NULL, DM_OUT_BUFFER) == IDOK) {

Above the code tries to use Zend allocator to allocate memory assuming
DocumentProperties returned a valid value (here the actual size).
However DocumentProperties returned a negative value meaning failure and
I believe this value is treated as unsigned integer leading to a huge
value and thus the above message.

Regarding why DocumentProperties fails, I am not very sure. And this
happens on Win2k3 too. Look at the bug reported at
http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=12293 long time back.

Keith, you can try accessing the printer under a normal account and
which is not part of administrator group and see if this helps. Ensure
that the normal user has permission to access the printer.

Thanks,
Don.

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Davis [mailto:keithda...@pridedallas.com]
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 6:14 AM
To: Pierre Joye; Robert
Cc: php-wind...@lists.php.net
Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] What about php 5.3 and printers or
PHP_PRINTER.DLL ?

Well, I'm on Server 2003, and I still cannot print. It only works with
impersonate turned off, and that is not a solution, as I need to connect
to remote files. 

Keith Davis (214) 906-5183

-----Original Message-----
From: Pierre Joye [mailto:pierre....@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 8:11 AM
To: Robert
Cc: php-wind...@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] What about php 5.3 and printers or
PHP_PRINTER.DLL ?

hi,

It works just fine here, did you install the print server?

Cheers,

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Robert <effe....@virgilio.it> wrote:
> About no chance to print on a shared printer from windows server 2008.
>
> Please note that for some unknown reason, it is either impossible to 
> mount a shared printer on windows server 2008. Maybe that errors and 
> issues printing from php are connected to this issue.
>
> The only chance we had found to print on a shared printer from windows

> 2008, is to mount the printer as local printer and as port, to give 
> the full tcp/ip path + the shared name for the shared printer.
>
> Hope this can help anybody that have the same issue.
>
> Kind regards
>
>
> ""Keith Davis"" <keithda...@pridedallas.com> ha scritto nel messaggio 
> news:b0baccaa54a7cc479fb67d9494fb018a8cc...@dc01.pridedallas.com...
> How is that user specified?
>
>
>
> Keith Davis (214) 906-5183
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pierre Joye [mailto:pierre....@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 3:26 PM
> To: Keith Davis
> Cc: Robert; php-wind...@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] What about php 5.3 and printers or 
> PHP_PRINTER.DLL ?
>
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Keith Davis 
> <keithda...@pridedallas.com> wrote:
>> I found a post that said to set fastcgi.impersonate = 0 to fix this 
>> problem. It did.
>>
>> Can someone clarify what that setting does?
>
> It allows a server to run php-cgi under a given user. But that should 
> not affect printer at all, except if the user does not have the 
> permission to use this printer.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Pierre
>
> @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org
>
> This message (including any attachments) may contain confidential or 
> otherwise privileged information and is intended only for the
> individual(s) to which it is addressed. If you are not the named 
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> Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received 
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message or that arise as a result of e-mail transmission.
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>
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>
>
>
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DocumentProperties is probably trying to load some 3rd party printer dll 
extensions.  Suggest using procmon.exe and filter for access denied to see what 
is failing

Louis Solomon
www.SteelBytes.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Venkat Raman Don [mailto:don.ra...@microsoft.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, 24 February 2010 3:50 AM
To: rquadl...@googlemail.com
Cc: Keith Davis; Pierre Joye; Robert; php-wind...@lists.php.net
Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] What about php 5.3 and printers or PHP_PRINTER.DLL ?

Richard, I tried that. I passed handle returned by OpenPrinter to 
DocumentProperties but same result. It's not that function fails for any bad 
parameter reason. I am getting error number 5 while calling GetLastError() 
which means some sort of access denied. But then why OpenPrinter is going 
through I am not able to understand.

Thanks,
Don.

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Quadling [mailto:rquadl...@googlemail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 1:28 AM
To: Venkat Raman Don
Cc: Keith Davis; Pierre Joye; Robert; php-wind...@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] What about php 5.3 and printers or PHP_PRINTER.DLL ?

On 22 February 2010 22:30, Venkat Raman Don <don.ra...@microsoft.com> wrote:
> DocumentProperties

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd183576(VS.85).aspx

LONG DocumentProperties(
  __in   HWND hWnd,
  __in   HANDLE hPrinter,
  __in   LPTSTR pDeviceName,
  __out  PDEVMODE pDevModeOutput,
  __in   PDEVMODE pDevModeInput,
  __in   DWORD fMode
);

If the fMode parameter is zero, the return value is the size of the
buffer required to contain the printer driver initialization data.
Note that this buffer can be larger than a DEVMODE structure if the
printer driver appends private data to the structure.

If the function displays the property sheet, the return value is
either IDOK or IDCANCEL, depending on which button the user selects.

If the function does not display the property sheet and is successful,
the return value is IDOK.

If the function fails, the return value is less than zero.

---------------------------------

No indication upon what the failure is from the call to
DocumentProperties, but I wonder if supplying Null for the first 2
parameters is appropriate. The second parameter is probably going to
have to be the handle returned by OpenPrinter.

But this is just me reading the MSDN pages. I'm no expert! Sorry.

Richard.
-- 
-----
Richard Quadling
"Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!"
EE : http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_248814.html
EE4Free : http://www.experts-exchange.com/becomeAnExpert.jsp
Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731
ZOPA : http://uk.zopa.com/member/RQuadling

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--- Begin Message --- Hello, and thanks for your assistance in advance. I am using PHP 4.4.9 onWindows 2008 64 bit with informix and am reciving the following error:
PHP Warning: Unknown(): Unable to load dynamic library'D:\php\extensions\php_ifx.dll' - %1 is not a valid Win32 application inunknown on line 0.
On another server, I have the same setup but using the Sqlserver dll. AnySuggestions?
Thanks,
Chris
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hi,

PHP 4 is not maintained anymore. Please consider to migrate to php 5.2
or 5.3 as soon as possible.

Which DB do you want to use? Informix or sqlserver?

Cheers,
--
Pierre

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Chris <cjav...@bellatlantic.net> wrote:
> Hello, and thanks for your assistance in advance.  I am using PHP 4.4.9 on
> Windows 2008 64 bit with informix and am reciving the following error:
>
> PHP Warning: Unknown(): Unable to load dynamic library
> 'D:\php\extensions\php_ifx.dll' - %1 is not a valid Win32 application in
> unknown on line 0.
>
> On another server, I have the same setup but using the Sqlserver dll.  Any
> Suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
>
>
>
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Just for everyone's information, the problem was that the PHP Informix driver 
(php_ifx.dll) was dependent on Informix Client SDK (one particular dll named 
isqlt09a.dll) which was a 64 bit DLL as 64 bit client SDK for Informix was 
installed on the machine and that was getting picked up resulting in the error 
below. Installing the correct 32 bit Informix client SDK solved this particular 
error message.

Thanks,
Don.

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris [mailto:cjav...@bellatlantic.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 9:49 AM
To: php-wind...@lists.php.net
Subject: [PHP-WIN] Unable to load dynamic library php_ifx %1

Hello, and thanks for your assistance in advance.  I am using PHP 4.4.9 on 
Windows 2008 64 bit with informix and am reciving the following error:

PHP Warning: Unknown(): Unable to load dynamic library 
'D:\php\extensions\php_ifx.dll' - %1 is not a valid Win32 application in 
unknown on line 0.

On another server, I have the same setup but using the Sqlserver dll.  Any 
Suggestions?

Thanks,
Chris




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