Re: Re: Interfacing with the outside world.

On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 07:57, Aaron wrote: > Jason A. Borgmann wrote: > > > I have 2 questings actually. > > > > 1) Is there a way to spawn an external browser in response to a button > > click? I can get the browser to spawn and to the right page, but my PHP > > app locks up while the browser is in use and I have to close the browser > > to get control of the PHP app again. > I use this way to open my PDF Documents in Internet Explorer. $browser = new COM("InternetExplorer.Application"); $browser->Visible = true; $browser->Navigate("path_to_pdf"); This works fine for me > Use the "button-press-event" signal to detect button presses. To open an > external program without halting you're app you can use this method: > > $cmd='start "irrelevant string" "'.$fullpathtofile.'"'; > $fp=popen($cmd, "rb"); > fclose($fp); > > Note: Will only work for Windows (and possibly not for 95/98/ME, I > havn't tested it). >