Re: COM or dynamic libs supported in PHP ?

Michael, thanks for the hint ! It looks like the Win32 Versin uses monikers to create a COM object from the "ProgID.ClassID"-String, just like VBScript in ASP. Thats great, but my question goes further: Is it also possible in the UNIX (at least the Linux) version ? COM on Linux?, I hear everybody saying, but yes, its avaiable and it supports dual interfaces and monikers and about everything you need to call COM objects from scripting clients. For Linux, it's even freeware (although it's not open source) Why is the COM support only in the Win32-source tree of PHP4 ? It would also be possible on Linux and almost all other major Unix versions as well (although the COM runtime would cost extra money there). Any comments ? Any PHP4 developers listening ? ;-) Thanks ! Markus --- Michael Stearne <mstearne@eisolutions.com> wrote: > 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