Bug #11658: COM passing by refrence

[2001-07-05 20:43:44] phanto@php.net but by definition every interface derived from IDispatch that should support references must expect VARIANT *var instead of <anothertype> *var . am i wrong ? [2001-07-23 13:50:06] phanto@php.net doesn't work with VBScript either and due to the provided typelib i assume that it is a user (component) error. -harald. Ive played around with this, and can tell you that a IDispatch interface can have ( pass by ref ) args that are of any type ( BSTR *, long *, etc ). These can be accesed without using a typelib from both VBScript and Perl but not php. For example, given an interface like this HRESULT test( [ out, ref ] unsigned char *n ); I can call that from PERL like use Win32::OLE; use Win32::OLE::Variant; $obj = Win32::OLE->new( "comobjectname" ); $n = Variant( VT_UI1 | VT_BYREF, 0 ); $obj->test( $n ); and in VBScript its called like this var obj = Server.CreateObject( "comobjectname" ) var n = 0 obj.test( n ) you dont need to have 'n' defined as a VARIANT, as in VBScript ALL variables are VARIANT's. Note that both these DONT use a typelib. Given that you would expect this to work in php $obj = new COM( "comobjectname" ); $n = new VARIANT( 0, VT_UI1 | VT_BYREF ); $obj->test( $n ); But you get this error: Warning: Invoke() failed: Type mismatch in <filename> on line <line> I understand from what Ive read that if the interface was defined with the arg as type VARIANT *, it would work..... BUT if you wish to be able to support existing interfaces ( which dont use type VARIANT * ) and to provide the same 'level' of COM support as VBScript and Perl. You should be able to call the above interface with the ( above ) php code. Rich P.S. when is php 4.0.7 due out ?