I am trying to use printer functions to send text directly to a printer rather than to the screen.
The PHP version I'm using is 4.3.something, so that should not be an issue. I have uncommented the correct extension in php.ini and made sure that php_printer.dll is in the extensions folder. All of this is running on a windows machine.
The problem is this: once I uncomment the extension in php.ini that should allow me to use printer functions, I cannot run ANY php file at all -- I get a blank white page that never finishes loading. html and other files are fine. Once I comment-out the extension in php.ini file again, everything is fine (except that anytime I try to use a printer function, I get the obvious error "unknown function"...which leaves me back at square one).
I've tried running these scripts on both Apache and IIS, no luck. Does anyone have an idea what the problem could be? Not only how I can fix it, but what actually is going on?
