RE: [PHP] Is it possible to call an external client or server program?
Martina, If you mean, from within a browser, is it possible to invoke a program on a client's machine then...yes, with a caveat. If the OS is windows, and the program has a COM interface and the user has set the security settings to a moronically low level, it is possible to invoke COM objects via either VBScript or JavaScript. (JSrcipt). It's not a good idea. From your side, since you have little or no control over it. From the users side, they have to lower their security settings to allow you to do it. Users who know that means won't want to. Those who don't will require a lot of hand holding. My $.02 worth. Hope you found an answer somewhere among the rant. :) =C= * * Cal Evans * Journeyman Programmer * Techno-Mage * http://www.calevans.com * -Original Message- From: martinahingis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 6:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Is it possible to call an external client or server program? Is it possible to call an external program via PHP. The program will most probably be in server. My aim is to call a scanner input program and want the client to scan a paper and upload it. thanks for help. martina. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Is it possible to call an external client or server program?
hmm.. very thanks Cal. I don't have any problem with security settings or another client side setting. Because actually I'm using PHP for an application (but not a web application) just works for the machine which is the server or in the same LAN with the werver. And all settings of their browsers are made by me. So that i can make all settings proper to do so. Also OS is win98 or maybe win2000. Most scanner's user interfaces can absolutely do their job perfect on scanning and sending the output to the caller. But the only problem here I understand is that it's not possible to call an EXE file? Cal Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Martina, If you mean, from within a browser, is it possible to invoke a program on a client's machine then...yes, with a caveat. If the OS is windows, and the program has a COM interface and the user has set the security settings to a moronically low level, it is possible to invoke COM objects via either VBScript or JavaScript. (JSrcipt). It's not a good idea. From your side, since you have little or no control over it. From the users side, they have to lower their security settings to allow you to do it. Users who know that means won't want to. Those who don't will require a lot of hand holding. My $.02 worth. Hope you found an answer somewhere among the rant. :) =C= * * Cal Evans * Journeyman Programmer * Techno-Mage * http://www.calevans.com * -Original Message- From: martinahingis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 6:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Is it possible to call an external client or server program? Is it possible to call an external program via PHP. The program will most probably be in server. My aim is to call a scanner input program and want the client to scan a paper and upload it. thanks for help. martina. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Is it possible to call an external client or server program?
If you are running a PHP script (like a shell script or a batch file) then you can use the back tiks (`) to execute a command on the machine that the PHP script is running on. (On my keyboard the backtik is on the same key as the tilde.) But if you are running this out of a web server then not really. Since the PHP never gets executed on the client machine. The best you could hope for was a JavaScript/VBScript solution. Of the two, I'd look hardest at VBscript since M$ likes it better. =C= * * Cal Evans * Journeyman Programmer * Techno-Mage * http://www.calevans.com * -Original Message- From: martinahingis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 7:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Is it possible to call an external client or server program? hmm.. very thanks Cal. I don't have any problem with security settings or another client side setting. Because actually I'm using PHP for an application (but not a web application) just works for the machine which is the server or in the same LAN with the werver. And all settings of their browsers are made by me. So that i can make all settings proper to do so. Also OS is win98 or maybe win2000. Most scanner's user interfaces can absolutely do their job perfect on scanning and sending the output to the caller. But the only problem here I understand is that it's not possible to call an EXE file? Cal Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Martina, If you mean, from within a browser, is it possible to invoke a program on a client's machine then...yes, with a caveat. If the OS is windows, and the program has a COM interface and the user has set the security settings to a moronically low level, it is possible to invoke COM objects via either VBScript or JavaScript. (JSrcipt). It's not a good idea. From your side, since you have little or no control over it. From the users side, they have to lower their security settings to allow you to do it. Users who know that means won't want to. Those who don't will require a lot of hand holding. My $.02 worth. Hope you found an answer somewhere among the rant. :) =C= * * Cal Evans * Journeyman Programmer * Techno-Mage * http://www.calevans.com * -Original Message- From: martinahingis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 6:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Is it possible to call an external client or server program? Is it possible to call an external program via PHP. The program will most probably be in server. My aim is to call a scanner input program and want the client to scan a paper and upload it. thanks for help. martina. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
