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Top Forums Web Development Writing to a Serial Port Post 302923445 by Meow613 on Monday 3rd of November 2014 12:54:58 AM
Old 11-03-2014
I have tried to make it work w/ read and write and have not scceeded. [My ignorance and no disrespect to those who wish me to use reaad and write], hovwever, I hve to go with something that works for me, and then I will willingly take instruction from the read/write folks...So please excuse me at this point.

I have a C program [scale5.c] that will write to the scale and then read the weight. This runs perfectly from the command line.

Code:
/*
*Scale5  Write data to Serial Port and Read it
*
*/ 
#include <termios.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

#define MODEMDEVICE "/dev/ttyS0"


int main(void) 
{
        char buf[64];
        int pos=0, num, num2,num3;
		FILE *fp1, *fp2;   


        int fd, i, n3;

		fp2 = fopen("/var/www/testfile.txt", "w+");

		fp1 = fopen(MODEMDEVICE, "w+");

		if(fp1 == NULL)
		{
			printf("initiation error. \n");
	        return 1;
	    }
	


		fp2 = fopen("/var/www/testfile.txt", "r+");

		fprintf(fp1, "%s","W\r\n");
	

		fread(buf, 1, 7,fp1 );
		n3 =strlen(buf);
		printf("\n%s    %d", "stringn3  ", n3);
		printf("buffer elements\n");

		for(i= 0; i < strlen(buf) ; i++)
		printf("%c", buf[i]);

		printf("You entered the string %s\n",buf);

	
		rewind(fp2);

		fwrite(buf, 1, 7,fp2 );
		fclose(fp2);

}

I then have a PHP script [TestScale.php] that calls scale5.c and reads its output. scale5 as called by the the PHP script delets the data file and rewrites it. Hoever, the file is deleted and never rewritten. a
I cannot figure out why the file is never rewriten.

Here is the PHP script...

PHP Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<html>

    <head>
        <title>Test Scale</title>
    </head>
        <body>
        <strong>
            <div align='center'>
                  <h3>Test Scale</h3>
            </strong>
                    </div>

<?php
            error_reporting
(E_ALL E_NOTICE);
            
ini_set('display_errors','1');

            echo 
'hello';
            
$output = `/var/www/scale5`;
            
$fptr1=  fopen("/var/www/testfile.txt""r");
            
$bla fscanf($fptr1,"%f");
            
$weightfscanf($fptr1,"%f");
            
print_r($weight);
            
var_dump($weight);
            echo 
$weight[0]; 
?>

        </body>
</html>
Pardon me if the explanation above is not clear.
 

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