Sending fax with PHP?

i think its e-fax right, well actaully in my case i need it to go to fax

Oh, I’ve never heard of e-faxes before.

Actually its fax in your email
take a look here for definition
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&oi=defmore&q=define:Efax

If you have yahoo mail just login and see on the left bottom side text ads are displayed which says to get your free fax number just click on the link and get your free international fax number.

thanks, but i am not looking for a service which i can use,
i am looking for a method to send fax over PHP.

If you have yahoo mail just login and see on the left bottom side text ads are displayed which says to get your free fax number just click on the link and get your free international fax number.

I had a look but couldn’t see this.

Off Topic:

What is a good way to send a free fax using the internet?

You can upload a SOAP library without PEAR, it’s all just PHP code and it doesn’t really matter where it is as long as your application can find the classes it needs. NuSOAP is one option. Here’s an [url=http://promoxy.mirrors.phpclasses.org/browse.html/package/920.html]example of nusoap implementation with the Google API.

PEAR::SOAP has no dependencies, so you can also use the SOAP functions from PEAR::SOAP, just grab the archive and put the /SOAP directory somewhere in your path, or within your FAX application’s directory.

Thanks Danthies,
will try that for sure.

Is there any foreseeable way to sent/recieve an e-fax for free?

I dont think so, but i figured, that if you think you are going to use something like that a lot, then having your own fax server is probably the best idea

There had been an initiative for sending faxes all over the world using only internet and TCP/IP.

The initiators have developed a network, and it was free to use it.

If a find the link, I’ll post it here :slight_smile:

Here is the link to the free fax service:

http://www.tpc.int/

I have used it once, and my fax has arrived.

But as I didn’t have much work with fax machines, I haven’t used it lately.

Hope that helps :slight_smile:

what if the sender and the reciever of the fax both have a fax with thier own modems attached. we should be able to send a fax through the internet to the fax for free. né’ ce pa?

Note that it isn’t strictly necessary to have PEAR::SOAP installed on your hosting server to fax through InterFAX. [URL=http://sourceforge.net/projects/nusoap/]NuSOAP is a one-file download and will send faxes through InterFAX with just five lines of code:

<?php

require_once('nusoap.php');
$client = new soapclient("http://ws.interfax.net/dfs.asmx?wsdl", true);
$params[] = array('Username'        => '********',
                'Password'        => '********',
                'FaxNumber'        => '+1-212-555-9999',
                'Data'            => 'My text goes here',
                'FileType'        => 'TXT'
                );

$result = $client->call("SendCharFax", $params);

echo $result["SendCharFaxResult"];

?>

Check out the InterFAX Developer Forum for more, such as examples of how to fax a Word document or how to check the status of a fax.

thanks for the example :slight_smile:

I’m sure if you asked around on programming boards (like client side programming, c++ etc) you could find someone that knows where a freeware command line fax program is.

I think, the best tool is FaxCarrier.
It has an Xml based integration technology like that

<sendfax Phone=“2122323”>
<pages>
<page background=“DefaultTemplate.bmp”>
<annotation text=“Hello world” x=10 y=100>
<annotation text=“SendFax from PHP” x=10 y=200>
</page>
</pages>
</sendfax>

Can you prepare a xml like above ?
I you can, you can send faxes with FaxCarrier. :cool:

Send an email to info@intelligentSoftwares.com
They will send you a shareware version.
or you can visit www.intelligentsoftwares.com/FaxCarrierEn.asp

Best Regards

Thank you for taking time to mention that program. I sent them an email and hoping to get answer soon.