RE: PHP, Windows and COM.

hi richard > The problem with some of the VBA functions is that the first and last > parameter need to be set and the ones in the middle have no > meaning and > cannot be present. This can only be achieved by using named > parameters. The > GoTo method, as a function, in VBA would be ... sooner or later everything ends up in a native c(++) function call and there are no such things as named parameters. therefore nonpresent parameters will be assigned a default value (iirc NULL if no explicit default value is specified.) so try calling GoTo(wdGoToBookmark, NULL, NULL, "BookmarkName"); or, if it doesn't work $empty = new VARIANT(); GoTo(wdGoToBookmark, $empty, $empty, "BookmarkName"); the difference is, that there exists two different variant types with nearly the same meaning, VT_NULL and VT_EMPTY. PHP's NULL will be marshalled to VT_NULL, VT_EMPTY has to be created by explicitly creating an empty variant container in php. ad. your previous question: there are two other ways of importing a type library, you can either com_load_typelib("Word.Application") which will search for the typelib assigned to that component or you can enable com.autoregister_typelib in your php.ini which will cause php to load the typelib for every component you instanciate. harald