Re: Are calling COM applications a trojan?

Well, first off all, what I'm taking about has nothing to do with COM object. Word will format HTML very nicely, keep it simple with only <br>, <p>, <b> tags. All you need to do is put this on top of your page, that is, before you send anyting to the client. header("Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-word"); Now the client knows that the data will be a word document. (built in HTML but we don't care) IE will open word if it is on the client pc, netscape will open a download box of a word document. I beleive you could built a more sophiticated solution using COM, but this as always work fine for me and my user's, especially since I hate word so much :) py At 09:18 PM 4/11/01 +0800, you wrote:

download dialog? what will be in that dialog box? And, I read a book saying that you can open a word document on the client side and insert words in it. ----- Original Message ----- From: Pierre-Yves Lemaire <py@e-medhosting.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, 11 April, 2001 3:54 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Are calling COM applications a trojan? It can't. If you put the appropriate header type (ms-word in this case), IE will open word. Netscape and other browser will open a download dialog box of the document. py At 04:57 PM 4/11/01 +0800, you wrote:

Then, how can it open a words document on the client side? ----- Original Message ----- From: Delbono <delbono@dsc.it> To: Zeus <techzeus@pacific.net.sg> Sent: Wednesday, 11 April, 2001 4:32 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Are calling COM applications a trojan?

Com Apps, are not called on a client side. Actually, if you print out the version of the com application, it

displays

the version of the software installed on the server, not the one on

the

client. If I have Word2000 on m local PC and on the server I have Word97, a script taht prints App.Version, will print MSWord97. Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 10:26 AM Subject: [PHP] Are calling COM applications a trojan? I'm sure many of you seasoned developers have used COM before (not

necessary

with PHP) but if PHP is a server-side language, how can it call a

program

on

the client to open. Isn't it as deadly as a hacker opening your

computer?

Lets see some sides :) ------------------------------------------ David Chua aka. Zeus Founder, Frozened.com ------------------------------------------

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