All,
I don't know if anyone could help me ... I am trying to set the default
printer for windows through PHP.
Let me explain - we have a number of reports, that exist in Cognos, we
access these reports through PHP and COM. However, various copies of these
reports need to go to different printers around the building.
Currently - we have two users and two scheduled jobs (one for each printer).
Since the number of reports and printers is about to explode (up to 10-15) I
don't want to have to set up 15 seperate users for each report/printer.
Cognos (via the COM interface) cannot select the printer it goes to. This
means that it will only ever print to the default printer.
SO - what I'd like to do is change the default printer. But the only way -
currently - I've found is to use the W32API functions - e.g.
$result=w32api_register_function("winspool.drv","SetDefaultPrinterA","long")
;
$output=SetDefaultPrinterA("testqueue");
This works ... but it's a bit of a long way round ... anyone have a better
way?
Cheers,
Michael.
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