Re: IIS and COM

On my phpinfo function call, I look into

Directive      Local Value      Master Value
allow_dcom     Off              Off
typelib_file   no value         no value

I have found nothing in my php.ini that would seem to indicate COM settings. Is there something in that phpinfo that is of some use? I have tried the code you sent and I have the same message: Loaded word version (8.0b) Warning: Invoke() failed: No description available in \webroot\lib\comtest.php on line 21 It is the Documents->Add(); function that it seems to have a problem with. Thanks! Matt Podwysocki

From: Andy Hoffman <andy.hoffman@bms.com> To: Matthew Podwysocki <gcprweb@hotmail.com>, php-windows@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] IIS and COM Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 14:50:38 -0400 Andy Hoffman wrote: com_invoke($word, "Document.Add"); com_invoke($word,"Documents[1].SaveAs","Usless_test.doc"); Mind you, I've never tried these, it's just a guess. Basing this on BASIC information on php.net - the COM methods are not well documented. OK, I hate it when I'm wrong... but I was wrong. The "COM_invoke" method isn't working on my php4. Matthew, your code (with a properly installed php4) should work... try commenting out lines starting from the end of the script and work your way backwards... find out where the error is occuring. The following script executes on my machine (Apache/php4.0.2dev): <?php

    $word = new COM("word.application");
    print "Loaded word version ($word->Version)\n";
    $word->Visible = 1;

    $res = $word->Documents->Add();

?> Of course, this isn't working PERFECTLY... while I don't get any php errors, the winword process that get's launched never terminates :( (can't even manually kill the process in task list under nt) Anyone else have more experience with the COM code??? -- Andy Hoffman Web Developer Bristol-Myers Squibb office: LVL G1.2607 email: andy.hoffman@bms.com phone: 609-252-5788

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