Comments on: Interfacing PHP with the Arduino (with a splash OS X)

By: Amy

Amy — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 02:00:41 +0000

hi .
im using arduino and online database. but i have problem on how to connect the db with arduino.i dont have idea how to pull data from online db to display at LCD via my arduino.

By: More Arduino + LCD + PHP fun « Arduinian Tales

More Arduino + LCD + PHP fun « Arduinian Tales — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:56:51 +0000

[...] http://www.mydarkmaterials.co.uk/2008/11/interfacing-php-with-the-arduino/ (this is an example of interfacing PHP Serial with Arduino, and I suspect old enough that many of the problems the author ran into aren’t there any longer … maybe it’s been silly of me to ignore PHP … I actually have a decent idea of what I’m doing there) [...]

By: Tinlad

Tinlad — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:11:36 +0000

Hi Jim,

I’ve uploaded the modified version of the php_serial class that I used here: php_serial_osx.zip.

I hope that it’s useful to you, and good luck with your project!

Cheers.

By: Jim W.

Jim W. — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:33:18 +0000

Tinlad, can you post your revised php_serial code with the changes for this to work under OS X? I’m just starting a project and would rather not reinvent the wheel.

By: Tinlad

Tinlad — Thu, 07 May 2009 08:42:51 +0000

To be honest, I don’t know. I haven’t tried this under Windows. I suspect it is possible, but that it’s just the PHP Serial class hasn’t implemented it (or implemented it correctly).

By: Gwinyai

Gwinyai — Thu, 07 May 2009 08:39:46 +0000

I have tried to use the php code in windows and it tells me that the reading of the serial port has not been implemented in windows, is it because windows xp does not allows direct access of the serial port.

By: MyDarkMaterials.co.uk » PHP and the Arduino - Followup

MyDarkMaterials.co.uk » PHP and the Arduino - Followup — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:31:34 +0000

[...] had a bit of interest on the original entry, asking for more detail on the code used in the video demonstation at the [...]

By: Tinlad

Tinlad — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:34:31 +0000

Hi Jeff,

I’ve emailed you with the Arduino code I used. I realise now that the PHP file I put up for download in my previous comment might not have been terribly useful without the Arduino code that interprets what it sends.

Cheers.

EDIT: I’ve added a follow-up post.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:16:49 +0000

That file was really useful for me in seeing how to send commands through arduino but since this is my first time using one I was wondering if you wanted to give me any pointers on what to do for the specific arduino code. I looked at the stuff on this page here and it only has two settings for 50% and 100% and I’m not sure what bytes the php page is outputting so I don’t know what else to add to the loop on that page.

By: Tinlad

Tinlad — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:13:34 +0000

Hi Jeff,

I used the PWM outputs to control the LED brightness. I’ve put the two main files for my implementation in this ZIP file: ArduinoAJAX.zip. I used the jQuery JavaScript library for the actual AJAXy part, along with the PHP Serial class as outlined in the main post – you’ll need to download those separately.

It’s not the most elegant code in the world – it was just a proof of concept for me – but I’ve added some comments so it’ll hopefully make sense to you.

Hope that helps.

Cheers.