How do I control a serial port using PHP? PHP by default does not offer good COM port support however a PHP extension called Direct IO does offers low level.

News 2012, October 31st: PHP serial extension verified OK with PHP 5.3.18 and 5.4.8. 2012, September 25th: PHP serial extension verified with PHP 5.3.17 and 5.4.7. Montgomery County Pa Zip Code Map Downloads on this page. Safe to upgrade. 2012, August 21st: The works with the newest PHP 5.4.6 and 5.3.16 2012, August 12th: With a bit delay (vacation time!) the PHP serial extension is checked and verified to work with 5.4.5 and 5.3.15. 2012, June 15th: PHP serial extension verified to the yesterday released PHP 5.4.4 and 5.3.14. 2012, June 7th: PHP version jump to 5.4.3 and 5.3.13, the PHP serial extension verfied and runs fine.

2012, March 5th: On March 1st, the first day of the Spring, PHP 5.4. Download Tokyo Game Convention Columbus. 0 was released. The PHP serial extension needed re-compilation, runs OK on this new version. Is available as a separate package download.

Easy Control is a script engine intended to build small to medium Windows application targeted to serial communication (that talk with devices connected to PC serial ports ) and TCP/IP communications. Application examples can be human interfaces for serial devices like microcontroller boards, ham radios, alarms, sound systems. General purpose Windows application can be easyly built too.

The script language is Basic like, typeless, very easy to learn and use. Features a built-in editor with coloring syntax hilighting, autocompletition and parameter hints. Windows GUI interfaces for applications can be built the free Rack Designer application (see below) which include a nice set of controls from analog voltmeters buttons, sliders, LCDs to a scope like display, with input, output or just for design purpose. Applications can be built to run standalone, royalty free!

Platform: Win95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP.