DDE and PHP; printing a spreadsheet with COM?

From: Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 21:31:46 +0000
Subject: DDE and PHP; printing a spreadsheet with COM?
Groups: php.windows 
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Does anyone here know if there are any plans to add DDE support to PHP (or is there already DDE support, but i stupidly overlooked it)? I ran into a snag while developing a project using PHP+COM+Excel; i couldn't find anyway to get Excel to send the currently opened spreadsheet to the printer... which is what i need to do after i work with the sheets. I found a way to do it with DDE, but then realized that PHP doesn't support DDE; so i resorted to writing a Perl script to loop through each of my files and send a DDE command to Excel telling it to print the file. But i'd really rather like to keep everything centered around PHP+COM, instead of now having to use two separate languages with two separate interfaces to manipulate and print spreadsheets. --- Scott Hurring Systems Programmer EAC Corporation ScottH@eac.com Voice: 201-462-2149 Fax: 201-288-1515

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