com php-src: Remove outdated README from ext/com_dotnet: ext/com_dotnet/README

Commit: 978f53afa626525f7449139e70e3f96913130a96 Author: Peter Kokot <peterkokot@gmail.com> Sat, 7 Oct 2017 22:31:38 +0200 Committer: Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> Sun, 8 Oct 2017 14:41:52 +0200 Parents: 784917bd6430154317f8d0365ea9a1f2604c29aa Branches: master Link: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commitdiff;h=978f53afa626525f7449139e70e3f96913130a96 Log: Remove outdated README from ext/com_dotnet The PHP documentation includes updated and better com_dotnet information. Changed paths: D ext/com_dotnet/README Diff: diff --git a/ext/com_dotnet/README b/ext/com_dotnet/README deleted file mode 100644 index 0d9db40..0000000 --- a/ext/com_dotnet/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,71 +0,0 @@ -This is the new php5 COM module. - -It is not 100% backwards compatible with PHP 4 ext/com, but you should not miss -the "features" that have not been retained. - -This module exposes 3 classes: variant, com and dotnet(*). -com and dotnet classes are descendants of the variant class; the only -difference between the three are their constructors. Once instantiated, the -module doesn't make a distinction between them. - -COM errrors are mapped to exceptions; you should protect your COM code using -the try..catch construct if you want to be able to handle error conditions. - -Be warned that due to the way the ZE2 currently works, exceptions are only -"armed" at the time they are detected, but do not "detonate" until the end of -the statement.. So, code like this: - - $obj->foo[43]->bar(); - -Where the foo[43] access triggers an exception will continue to call the bar() -method on a null object and cause a fatal php error. - -Default properties and array access: - -$obj = new COM("..."); -$obj[1]->foo(); - -The code above will use the type information for the object to determine its -default property and then access it. In PHP 4, it was hard-coded to use the -"Items" member, which was wrong. - -The default property will also be used by the casting support to determine the -value for the object. - -Variants: - -This implementation of COM takes a simpler approach than the PHP 4 version; -we only map a few native types to COM and vice-versa, leaving the more complex -things as variants. This allows greater consistency of data when passing -parameters to and from COM objects (no data will be lost). In addition, a -large number of the variant API has been mapped to PHP space so that you can -use it for working with the special variant decimal, currency and date time -types. This could be used as a replacement for the bcmath extension, for -example. - -You can use the new object casting hook to for a php-native representation of -a variant object: - -$a = new variant(4); -$b = new variant(6); -$c = variant_add($a, $b); -echo $c; // outputs 10 as a string, instead of Object - -Sample Script: - -<?php -$word = new COM("word..application"); -print "Loaded Word, version {$word->Version}\n"; -$word->Visible = 1; -$word->Documents->Add(); -$word->Selection->TypeText("This is a test..."); -$word->Documents[1]->SaveAs("Useless test.doc"); -$word->Quit(); -?> - -TODO: - -- documentation - -* dotnet support requires that you have the mscoree.h header from the .net sdk - when you build the module.