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Printer Functions

Introduction

These functions are only available under Windows 9.x, ME, NT4 and 2000. They have been added in PHP 4.0.4.

Installation

This » PECL extension is not bundled with PHP.

Windows users must enable php_printer.dll inside of php.ini in order to use these functions. Unbundled PECL extensions may be downloaded from: » http://pecl4win.php.net/

Runtime Configuration

The behaviour of these functions is affected by settings in php.ini.

Table 270. Printer configuration options

NameDefaultChangeableChangelog
printer.default_printer""PHP_INI_ALLAvailable since PHP 4.0.6. Removed in PHP 4.1.1.


For further details and definitions of the PHP_INI_* constants, see the Appendix I, php.ini directives.

Resource Types

This extension defines handles to a printer connection, to a brush, to a font and to a pen.

Predefined Constants

Table of Contents

printer_abort — Deletes the printer's spool file
printer_close — Close an open printer connection
printer_create_brush — Create a new brush
printer_create_dc — Create a new device context
printer_create_font — Create a new font
printer_create_pen — Create a new pen
printer_delete_brush — Delete a brush
printer_delete_dc — Delete a device context
printer_delete_font — Delete a font
printer_delete_pen — Delete a pen
printer_draw_bmp — Draw a bmp
printer_draw_chord — Draw a chord
printer_draw_elipse — Draw an ellipse
printer_draw_line — Draw a line
printer_draw_pie — Draw a pie
printer_draw_rectangle — Draw a rectangle
printer_draw_roundrect — Draw a rectangle with rounded corners
printer_draw_text — Draw text
printer_end_doc — Close document
printer_end_page — Close active page
printer_get_option — Retrieve printer configuration data
printer_list — Return an array of printers attached to the server
printer_logical_fontheight — Get logical font height
printer_open — Opens a connection to a printer
printer_select_brush — Select a brush
printer_select_font — Select a font
printer_select_pen — Select a pen
printer_set_option — Configure the printer connection
printer_start_doc — Start a new document
printer_start_page — Start a new page
printer_write — Write data to the printer