如何使用帮助PHP打印文件

Question

Is there any way to print out (to cups for example) html file with help PHP (linux server without X) ?

except shell_exec(), system() etc...

And when i mean print html file means print not source code, means print rendered result. is it possible with help PHP ?

I know thath there is some possibilities like, - run X server, - run browser, - exec terminal command which will ask browser open and print out html file

but without shell_exec is it possible ?

Answer 1

You'll need to render the file yourself into some sort of printable format such as a postscript or PDF file. There is a good PHP5 library to create PDFs from HTML called dompdf .

So generate the HTML output and store it into a string, you may want to use output buffering to do this. See the PHP manual .

Then you can use dompdf to render the HTML contents into a PDF file. Storing it into a temp directory probably makes sense if you don't need to keep the file.

Then, you can use the cups cli to print the file, see the cups documentation . eg

shell_exec('lp '.$filename);