How can I obtain list of available printers?

[southbeach]

Other than keeping a MySQL table with list of known printers, how could I dynamically fill a select box with available printers in network?

Thanks to jpadie's much older post, I am able to print to any network printer by using

<?php
$filename = "c:\appl\forms\magnowr.pcl";
///////
ob_start();
include $filename;
$contents = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
///////
$handle = printer_open("\\\\print_server\SHARED_NAME");
printer_set_option($handle, PRINTER_MODE, "raw");
printer_write($handle,$contents);
printer_close($handle);
?>

I would like to fill in the target printer dynamically. Is this possible or am I stuck with maintaining a table?

Thanks!

 

[PaulTEG]

There is a list_printers function mentioned but abonded, have a google for printer_list which seems to be ont the PHP site

Paul
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Spend an hour a week on CPAN, helps cure all known programming ailments ;-)

 

[jpadie]

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.printer-list.php

 

[southbeach]

I searched for "list printer" in php.net and came back empty in both function and document ... This was before I posted the question here ...

Thank you guys!