Re: COM and Word, how?

Well, this script works fine on my machine. Windows XP w/ Office XP, PHP 4.2.3. "Michelle" <michelledebeer@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:20020902171132.91711.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > I am new to COM and tried an example today (See bottom of post) > > When I execute the code, I get is an error message and if I look in the Task > Manager, there is a WINWORD.EXE process running, which I can't end. Every > time I reload the page, a new winword is started... > > How should PHP.ini be set for me to use COM Objects? > > --------------------------------- > Error message: > Warning: Unable to obtain IDispatch interface for CLSID > {000209FF-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}: The message filter indicated that > the application is busy. in d:\inetpub\wwwroot\incmill\ver2\readfile.php on > line 2 > Unable to instantiate word > > Setup: > Windows 2000 Professional > PHP 4.2.1 > Office 2000 > > PHP.ini > COM values: > Directive, Local Value, Master Value > com.allow_dcom, Off, Off > com.autoregister_casesensitive, On, On > com.autoregister_typelib, Off, Off > com.autoregister_verbose, Off, Off > com.typelib_file, no value, no value > > > Code: > $word = new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to instantiate Word"); > print "Loaded Word, version {$word->Version}<BR>"; > $word->Visible = 1; > $word->Documents->Add(); > $word->Selection->TypeText("This is a test..."); > $word->Documents[1]->SaveAs("Useless test.doc"); > $word->Quit(); > > > >