Can Laravel Php be easily interact with hardware like Fingerscan, invoice printer ...etc?
I want to use Laravel as Backend for a system that has checkin process and also registering users. The user can get through access door by finger scanning. The old system and hardware already exist but broken and I don't think I can propose them a new hardware since all the fingerprint hardware is still function well. Also, the system will include invoice printing, listen for the trigger of a button ...etc
Well, The concern is, how well laravel can be integrate with all these hardware. I've google and learn that there are a lot of library that handle all of this. Is there a bridge between C#/Java -> PHP?
The purpose of me wanting to use laravel because this project is fit best using Web application. Since there'll be a pusher notification to the smart phone and secure database on the cloud, I think Laravel is the way to go for me. I could've go with Java but I don't know Spring MVC.
Laravel has nothing todo with hardware. Laravel is just a PHP Framework. So if you can do it in PHP you can do it with Laravel. But in general PHP is not a good language for communicating with external hardware unless that hardware has some web communication.
So in your case you should figure out if your existing fingerprint is able to communicate with a web application. Or maybe you need to write some custom code in a C# like language that acts like a bridge between the fingerprint scanner and your php application. Figuring this out has nothing to do with which PHP framework you pick and should be your first priority. If this is not even possible you can skip the whole process of choosing a php framework
