Re: Re: can php control ActiveX ?

> > i have a ActiveX in client,but i can't control it. is it possible that php > > control ActiveX ? thanks. > > It seems unlikely... PHP lives on the server, and ActiveX kinda has to > live on the client, as I understand it... As the original poster mentioned, yes. However, ActiveX code can be instantiated and run on the server. Why? Because ActiveX is just a sexier name for COM (The Component Model Formerly Known As OLE, which itself was formerly known as NetDDE) and is just an API that allows one chunk of code to dynamically load and execute another. While ActiveX is more commonly associated with code executed in IE, it's much more commonly used on the server. As an example any time an ASP programmer queries a database, they're probably using ADO. ADO = ActiveX Data Objects. I believe you could perform the same work using PHP on Win32 and the new PHP4 COM functions, although in the case of ADO I doubt there's any reason to do so.