Read serial port with PHP is so simple in Linux machine for windows will write another article soon. Just download the read serial port with php script just below. And extract it to your /var/www/html/ folder.

Read Serial Port with PHP Post date: Category: Author: Comments: Tags:,, Read Serial Port with PHP Read serial port with PHP? Yea some time we may face such a requirement, reading serial devices from web browsers. Bit complicated right? Yea, there are few way to accomplish this with the technologies available now. Touchpad Driver For Acer Aspire E15. We all know that browser is Sanbox mode and its restricted to access system hard drives or any serial devices.

So How we can read the serial port using PHP (server side script executed with a client browser). Yea that bit crazy. We can check few other options available to do the things. • Java Applet.

• Active X components. The above two methods have its own advantages and limitations Active x only support with Windows platform, Java is cross platform so it can be used, there is also requirement like JDK should be installed on the client PC, the applet should be signed and verified. So if we can do that (install JDK on client PC) so we can install an apache server with PHP on client PC too right? So we can develop it with PHP itself. No need of struggling with applet signed process. Yep that is what I’m doing here, my requirement is to read the weigh machine out put on the web browser. So the PC connected to the serial port device.

I’m working on linux machine so I can do the serial port reading with PHP itself, In windows there is some issue with reading serial port using PHP, it can’t be achieved quick, have to work a lot, In my case its fine too, bcoz client PC’s are Linux so I’m good to go with PHP. If you’re using Windows, I will post another article soon with windows serial port reading using PHP and Perl mix. Ok lets check the code in PHP, also my plan to execute the code as follows. I will put the code in a folder called serialport inside /var/htm/ so I can access it like localhost/serialport/index. Hewlett-packard Hp Pavilion Dv7 Notebook Pc Manual. php it will return the data, In my web page I can use an Ajax call to the above url and return the result inside text box of my web apps.