RE: [PHP] runing com

I've been having some fun with COM myself recently ... so I can suggest a couple of things ... Firstly - that error would suggest to me that Word is not installed on your machine. Remember - in order to interface with an app - it has to be there. If it is ... try looking it up in the registry to confirm the registration for COM exists. Second ... why do you want to run media player to play a wave file on the server? I would have thought you'd want to activate the script on the client ... Another good idea is to check over the event viewer on the server - there are sometime some very revealing errors in there. Cheers, Michael. -----Original Message----- From: kai [mailto:kai_flash@hotmail.com] Sent: 14 November 2002 07:20 To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] runing com hi guy's I have a problem running com+ code and would appreciate any help. What I like to do is have the mediaplayer run a wave file triggert from php via com. but I can not run any example code from the help without errors. this code is from a the help and should work but doesn't on my mashine: // starting word $word = new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to instanciate Word"); print "Loaded Word, version {$word->Version}\n"; file://bring it to front $word->Visible = 1; file://open an empty document $word->Documents->Add(); file://do some weird stuff $word->Selection->TypeText("This is a test..."); $word->Documents[1]->SaveAs("Useless test.doc"); file://closing word $word->Quit(); file://free the object $word->Release(); $word = null; This is all very basic code and should run. I do not have word so I tried with other apps. like wordpad or painbrush but allways recieve this error: Warning: Invalid ProgID, GUID string, or Moniker: Invalid syntax in D:\Apache\htdocs\ring.php on line 7 Unable to instanciate .......... Now I tried to give the access right's on the particular apps in dcomcnfg and also edited php.ini to allow Distributed-COM calls com.allow_dcom = true Does anybody can give me a run down on what I have to do exactly to get this code running for let's say wordpad. Thank you KAi -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by the MessageLabs Virus Control Centre. This message has been checked for all known viruses by the MessageLabs Virus Control Centre. ********************************************************************* Notice: This email is confidential and may contain copyright material of Ocado Limited (the "Company"). Opinions and views expressed in this message may not necessarily reflect the opinions and views of the Company. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately and delete all copies of this message. Please note that it is your responsibility to scan this message for viruses. Company reg. no. 3875000. Swallowdale Lane, Hemel Hempstead HP2 7PY *********************************************************************