The DCOM (COM on a remote server) works fine but you still have to run PHP
on a windows machine. AFAIK there's no decent way to use COM from a unix
box.
Pavel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Niel Zeeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Paulson, Joseph V. "Jay"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "php gen list"
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Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 5:16 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] Calling a Windows Com object or an Extended Fetch?
> Try this article
> http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/alain20001003.php3
>
> it helped me allot, If you go deeper into the Com object you will find
that
> you can actually call an object from a
> remote server -- have not tried it myself yet : )
> Niel Zeeman
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Paulson, Joseph V. "Jay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: 'bard' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Miles Thompson
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 5:42 PM
> Subject: RE: [PHP] Calling a Windows Com object or an Extended Fetch?
>
>
> > Well the next problem I have found is that php has to be running on a
> > windows machine for the com objects to actually work and well we are
> running
> > it on a Unix box. So we can't use the com objects. Thanks for all the
> help
> > thought!
> > Jay
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 5:37 PM
> > To: Miles Thompson
> > Cc: Paulson, Joseph V. "Jay"; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [PHP] Calling a Windows Com object or an Extended Fetch?
> >
> >
> > Or you could just look at the phpbuilder.com column on using COM objects
> in
> > php, or you could RTFM at the php.net site. just type in php.net/com and
> see
> > what happens.
> >
> > We use php and com here a lot, and while the implementation lacks a few
> > features of the asp/vb implementation it's handy when migrating from
> NT/ASP
> > to NT/PHP.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Miles Thompson wrote:
> >
> > > I don't know, but I was glancing through an article on PHP in the
> current
> > > issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal last week. At the very end I *think* there
> was
> >
> > > an example of calling a COM object. It was a VbScript <-> PHP
> comparision.
> >
> > > Have a look, might help.
> > >
> > > Miles
> > >
> > > (Yes, I've been known to make notes while in the newsstand.)
> > >
> > > At 10:01 AM 01/09/2001 -0600, Paulson, Joseph V. \"Jay\" wrote:
> > > >Hello everyone--
> > > >I was wondering if PHP can call Windows COM objects in memory? If
PHP
> > can
> > > >do this does anyone know how to do it or can you point me in the
> > direction
> > > >were I can pissibly figure it out. Also, does anyone know if PHP can
> > call
> > > >an Extended Fetch?
> > > >Thanks,
> > > >Jay Paulson
> > > >
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