RE: [PHP] Calling some DLL functions from within PHP (no ASP)

Try to look at http://www.php.net/manual/ref.com.php Isn't it what you're looking for? --- Regards/Mvh. Lars Holm Nielsen <lars@hankat.dk> > -----Original Message----- > From: php@brazilinfo.com [mailto:php@brazilinfo.com] > Sent: 27. november 2000 21:00 > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Calling some DLL functions from within PHP (no ASP) > > > Hi! > > I need to call some functions that reside inside a .DLL supplied > by a third > party and which shall be used in our project (a web site mostly > built with > PHP but that will have to run on NT because of these .DLLs). We > will not have > access to the details of the implementations of DLL so that we > are not able > to port it to PHP. We shall call the functions from this DLL by > instantiating > an object and then calling the functions with the correct formatted > parameters. > > The code inside an ASP file would be something like: > > <% > ' --- activeX > Dim Xvar > Set Xvar = CreateObject("third_party_dll") > > ' --- vars parameter1, parameter2, etc. shall already > have values > ' as received from user input at a form or in a > hardcoded manner > output = Xvar.dll_function(parameter1, > parameter2, ...) > > Set Xvar = Nothing > %> > > > I can make a PHP form and when the user submits it I would call > the ASP file > with the above Visual Basic snippet, and then format the HTML output. > > But I would like to invoke the above DLL function from inside PHP > and have > the result available at my PHP script instead of generating the > HTML output > from inside the ASP script. This is because our system already uses a > complete architecture based in PHP (with templates and so on), so > that the > formatting of the output would be better built inside PHP. > > Any hints? > > TIA, > Paulo > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > >