Help PHP-COM: reading Calendar events from Outlook

I haven't done any windows OLE/COM programming before, and frankly I'm having a difficult time with the COM extensions to PHP... What I would like to do is create a COM object to open Outlook and display some appointments from mine or someone elses data (the server is my desktop w/ Outlook on it). I've searched up and down the net for code and COM api's too and haven't come up with much (btw, COM is a terrible search term)... Trying to get something going with outlook is the first step I guess, so here is some not quite working code I stole from someone else and tried to get going: $outl = new COM("Outlook.Application") or die("Unable to instantiate Outlook"); $store = $outl->GetNameSpace("MAPI"); var_dump($outl, $store); var_dump($store->Items[6]); $t1 = "Mailbox - Dahlstrom, Garth - Outlook Today"; $t2 = "Outlook Today [Mailbox - Dahlstrom, Garth]"; $alinbox = $store->Folders[$t2]->Folders[6]; print "Box: $alinbox->Name <br>\n"; $messages = $alinbox->Items ; $length = $messages->count ; print "Messages: $length<br>\n"; Has anyone got any tips on how to do any type 'introspection' on API's each COM object allow? or know where I can find docs? Is what I am trying to do with the calendaring stuff in outlook even possible once I get the email stuff going? (I've seen some stuff using CDO and CDONTS and VB) Thanks -Garth (Ironstorm) Northern.CA ===-- http://www.northern.ca Canada's Search Engine