Re: Closing Excel using DCOM and Release()

As it said, your COM connection is closed, in addition 'release' is not a member in the word object as well as in the excel object. Alain On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 02:20:35PM +0100, Jeff Waldock wrote: > I cannot seem to get PHP to recognise the Release function when tring to > close an instance of Excel or Word opened using DCOM. > > This is the error message returned.. > > Warning: Unable to lookup release: The object invoked has disconnected from > its clients. in d:\wwwroot\studentdata\word.php on line 21 > > The code on line 21 is just > $word->Release(); > > The full code is:: > <?php > > // starting word > $word = new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to instanciate Word"); > print "Loaded Word, version {$word->Version}\n"; > > //bring it to front > $word->Visible = 1; > > //open an empty document > $word->Documents->Add(); > > //do some weird stuff > $word->Selection->TypeText("This is a test..."); > $word->Documents[1]->SaveAs("Useless test.doc"); > > //closing word > $word->Quit(); > > //free the object > $word->Release(); > $word = null; > > ?> > > Where am I going wrong? > > Jeff Waldock > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net