Re: COM or dynamic libs supported in PHP ?

Yes COM is supported in the Win32 version of PHP4. There was preliminary support in PHP3, but I don't think it was any good. I don't know if there is any documentation on it yet but you should go to http://phpbuilder.com and search the mailing lists for COM or COM support or similiar. Also here is a post that deals with your question. http://www.zend.com/phorum/read.php?num=3&id=21&loc=0&thread=21 Michael Markus Geiger wrote: > 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 > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net