COM or dynamic libs supported in PHP ?

Hi Gurus ! I'm quite new to PHP, but what I've seen so far is really great. In the past, I've developed distributed multi-tier applications mainly on WinNT plattforms and I always used IIS/ASP, if there was a need for a plain HTML interface for the app. N-Tier programming on WinNT however relies heavily on COM/DCOM, 'cause all business logic operations are delegated to some COM-Object that (usually) runs in a transaction context (separating UI-stuff from logic and from persistance). As COM is also available on Linux and I have already a large codebase of DB-handling stuff written the "COM way", I'd really like to call those objects from inside a PHP script. That would open a door for linux boxes to be part of my distributed systems (I like linux ! :-)) ). Is there a way to call arbitrary functions in arbitrary dynamic libs sitting in an arbitrary place on my hard disc ? If not, is anybody out there working on something like that ? I'd offer my help if that would speed things up. Please, don't start a religous war about MS vs. Linux, I'm really fed up with this. Serious programmers face serious problems that need to be solved and my customers expect me to use the best combination of OS's and tools and that sometimes includes mixing Linux and WinNT, so please let's be constructive ;-) Thanks ! Markus ===== Markus Geiger ---- #define THE_QUESTION ((bb) || (!bb)) -- W. Shakespeare __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com