Re: [PHP4BETA] Question about COM objects for PHP4

> I've been working for a couple of years with M$ IIS 4.0 and ASP, and also > written > some COM objects that can be used from ASP pages. Since this could improve > performance, as well as make it easier to do some stuff, I wonder if PHP4 > (or later versions) might get some kind of interface to load shared > libraries > and execute code in them, just like COM objects. I've checked the PHP FAQ as > well as scanned the mailinglist archive without finding anything that looks > like that. From what I gathered from what I've read of the documentation, > you > can add shared libs to PHP, but isn't that at compile time? What I'd like to > do is for PHP to load the lib at runtime, even if it doesn't know what > functions the lib contains (something like an interface to get all > functions, parameters etc, and make them callable from PHP scripts). Both 3 and 4 can do this already. See the dl() function. And PHP 4 has full DCOM support. -Rasmus