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Question

I'm looking for a solution with POS printing.

The scenario is:

A restaurant currently has a POS system up and running, they take orders from iPads in store and have a network setup that processes the orders and automatically prints them out on the thermal printer in the kitchen (pretty cool, huh?). Anyway, this restaurant also has a website for online ordering (written in PHP) which have to be checked via email manually. The restaurant wants their online system to send each order to the printer, automatically.

I must add that I haven't been involved with the development of their site or their in-house ordering system. I haven't worked with PHP to POS systems before - is it even possible? What are the alternative solutions for sending data from website forms to a POS printer automatically?

Answer 1

Webservice on the php website with a status flag for processed or not. Query the webservice from the internal application/an internal application every x minutes (1 is probably sufficient) lists all unprocessed orders and flags them as processed when its retrieved (hack but will suffice)

c#/java/c++ etc will be best to avoid the issue of web based not able to access local printer interface/queue app simply takes result set back from web service and formats/prints it.

Fairly simple about 20 lines of php perhaps and probably less than 100k of c# would do it nicely.