Hyperterminal, wrappers and PHP

[Kurrel]

Hi everyone,

 

I have been given a receiver that (so far  ) outputs data to Hyperterminal (9600Bps 8bits) on Com port.  What I've been asked is whether I can make it so that PHP or, indeed, any workaround can be found so that  a system can read this as an ID and interact with a DB on a case-by-case reading.

 

The device reads the ID from the tag, then dumps it to Hyperterminal.  At best I'd like to have an applet or system running that dumps it to an HTTP reference that has the tag id inset (http://test.com/index.php?mode=test/index&action=test&id=1010101010).

 

I'm searching for wrappers and data feed tutorials but hope that someone here knows of such or even that PHP has commands for such a thing.

 

Any pointers, info, clue-by-fours?