PHP Server Side Printing Ubuntu Server

Question

I have been all over stack looking at what is required to do this and have wound up being slightly confused.

Lets get one thing straight this is a local based intra-

Answer 1

Use PHP::PRINT::IPP

It is the most secure and easiest way for printing from Web using PHP. Here you don't have to enable exploitable php functions like exec(), shell_exec() etc.

Basic Usage

 setHost("localhost");
  $ipp->setPrinterURI("/printers/epson");
  $ipp->setData("./testfiles/test-utf8.txt"); // Path to file.
  $ipp->printJob();                                                          
?>

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