Send Fax via PHP

can it be done?

[henry0]

I am working on an inventory script and wish sending fax orders from the script.
I would like figuring if sending a fax via a PHP script can be achieved

Doing some searches I found the following
There is a Co. that does it but charges $0.11 per pages (acceptable)
They seems to be pretty much the most important one to supply services for that market
if needed I can PM its URL

However it requires SOAP
<<<
* PEAR::SOAP class [http://pear.php.net/package/SOAP]
*/
require_once 'SOAP/Client.php';
>>>

Do you know of another mean to send fax via PHP?

If not I will need to consider hiring the services of that Co.

Further
Is SOAP hard to install?

Thanks
Regards

Henry

[ogletree]

What you should do is go to one of those programmer auction sites and get you some cheap labor. Post your problem and somebody will probably do the soap for you for about $20 or less.

[henry0]

Thanks that might be an option
but I need to know more about SOAP :)

[ogletree]

SOAP is just a language. You can use soap with the google api. It is a language that their server understands. You can use PHP to send and receive SOAP commands. PHP5 has native SOAP extensions. Do a search on G for "Native SOAP Extensions for PHP" that should help a lot.

[henry0]

Thank you
Appreciated

[thirdlight]

There are several outfits who will bridge email to fax, some for free, & php can mail....

It's a thought.

[henry0]

thirdlight
Welcome on WebMasterWorld
I found one of those
look at my first message

ogletree
the very first link is very good

ht//tp://www.devx.com/webdev/Article/22338/0/page/1
rem the xtra // to use it
I will try that and then will incorporate it with my PHP5 contrib in WebmasterWorld library
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