Appears to be an abandoned PECL extension.

windows nt40 sp6
windows 2000 pro sp3 + pre-sp4 updates @ 20030609

PHP 4.3.2 / Apache 1.3.27 / php4apache.dll 
extension: php_printer.dll

The extension does appear to be in the category "who cares".

only crashes only the array keys "DESCRIPTION" and "COMMENT"

$list_printers = printer_list(PRINTER_ENUM_LOCAL | PRINTER_ENUM_SHARED);

// get the name of the first returned printer
$this_printer = $list_printers[0]["NAME"];

// open a connection to your printer
$my_printer = printer_open($this_printer);

.. blah blah


The output of var_dump (as an example)

var_dump( printer_list(PRINTER_ENUM_LOCAL | PRINTER_ENUM_SHARED) );

array(1) {
  [0]=> array(3) {
  ["NAME"]=> string(14) "Canon BJC-4550"
  ["DESCRIPTION"]=> string(30) "Canon BJC-4550,Canon BJC-4550,"
  ["COMMENT"]=> string(0) "This is my funky printer!" } }


As you can see var_dump (under variable functions in the manual) shows and/or retrieves the corrent information but if you try to place into a variable or read the variable it crashes with an "I am a windows product and cannot read the memory space correctly cause I sux" message.

so as long as you do not get the comment or description it will list your printers.

if you wish to specify a network printer you need lots more slashes.. example: \\\\my-network-computer\\my-printer-share

cher cher

You can use AJAX, and everything works fine...

PHP // lsprt.php
<?php
    $getprt=printer_list( PRINTER_ENUM_LOCAL );
    echo json_encode($getprt);
?>

HTML
<script>
$.post('lsprt.php', function(data) {
	value = JSON.parse(data);
	for (val in value) {
		$('#asd').append('<option value="'+ value[val]['NAME'] +'">'+ 
value[val]['NAME'] +'</option>');
	}
});
</script>

<select id="asd"></select>

Hello,

To whoever might still be using this i've come across the same issue.

For some reason using 

$printer_list = printer_list(PRINTER_ENUM_LOCAL); TWICE in the same page

seemed to be working fine for me and showing up all printers EXCEPT when i would add more lines to the code it would crash.
And by lines i mean a couple of more characters in an HTML text could be enough. (Not even php code).

Anyway I then moved from Mysql to Mysqli and boom.
Stopped working. I played around some more time and now i use

$printer_list = printer_list(PRINTER_ENUM_LOCAL |PRINTER_ENUM_SHARED);

once again TWICE. Problem is now it only shows me 1-2 printers.
I can access DESCRIPTION and COMMENT just fine the same way i'm accessing the NAME
    foreach ($printer_list as $printerAr)
    {
    	$name = $printerAr["NAME"];
    ... }
Hope it might save some time someone else in the future.
Lefteris

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