RE: [PHP-DEV] A use for the COM module?

Now what would be pretty slick is a COM Automation wrapper that will drive non-COM-enabled programs -- could work that it spawns new programs and sends interface messages to them. Or uses just DDE, b/c many older programs will take DDE commands and not OLE (COM). -Troy Cobb Circle Net, Inc. http://www.circle.net > -----Original Message----- > From: Zeev Suraski [mailto:bourbon@netvision.net.il] > Sent: Saturday, August 22, 1998 5:39 AM > To: rasmus@lerdorf.on.ca; php-dev@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] A use for the COM module? > > > At 23:31 21/08/98 -0400, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > >I would love to be able to control WinAmp remotely. Could > this be done by > >sticking a web server on my Windows box and having PHP speak > to it via > >COM? Does WinAmp even support COM? It would certainly be a > cool demo app > >for the COM module if this was possible. > > I doubt it supports COM, and you need more than that too - > you need it to > support automation. I can't find any trace of information > about winamp in > the COM object viewer, so it seems like you're out of luck. > You can ask > them to include it in version 2.0... > > Zeev > -- > Zeev Suraski <zeev@php.net> > For a PGP public key, finger bourbon@netvision.net.il > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ > To unsubscribe send an empty message to > php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > > -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net