note 46281 added to faq.com

It may be obvious to everyone else but... If you want to write your own COM DLL in MSVC++6 and you want to pass it a string, you need the following in your .idl file: HRESULT function_name([in] BSTR parameter_name, [retval, out] BSTR * retval); retval is the result of your function as a string to be passed back. BSTR is an unsigned short *, so if you want to use your string with STL string etc. you may need to convert parameters to and from char *. The burden of my message is that from PHP $comThing = new COM("comThing.comThing"); print $comThing->function_name("Jeremy"); Jeremy will be marshalled as wide chars, which match BSTR. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/faq.com.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+46281 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+46281&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+46281&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php