Re: COM - accessing pointer variables

Im afraid I dont know VB script so I cant tell you, to call it from C you would use: ITest *ptr = CoCreateObject( CLSID_Test...... ) char str[ 1024 ]; ITest->Get_Version_Str( str, sizeof( str ) ); // str contains the version string ITest->Release(); Last night I looked through the php source code and am pretty shure it needs calling something like $obj = new COM( "Test.test" ); $str = new VARIANT( "a very long string, so that sizeof string can handle returned string, is there a better way ?", VT_STR | VT_BYREF ); $obj->Get_Version_Str( $str ); $obj->Release(); Unfortunatly, whenever I try creating a variable of type VARIANT ( even if its just ) $o = new VARIANT(); My script hangs, forever!!! Also I cant call Release - Its a member of IUnknown so I thought I would be able to ? All help will be apreciated. Park "Alain Samoun" <alain@samoun.com> wrote in message news:NDBBKDPANIGMPIPILNBBEEKLDAAA.alain@samoun.com... > Do you have a VB script showing how it connects to your COM object? > Alain > > > -----Original Message----- > From: park [mailto:park99@freenet.co.uk] > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 3:18 AM > To: php-windows@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP-WIN] COM - accessing pointer variables > > > I have a method into my COM object specified as: > > HRESULT Get_Version_Str( [ in, out, size_is( size ) ] unsigned char *str, > [ in ] unsigned long size ); > > now how do I call this from PHP ? > I think that I need to create the arg's as VARIANT but I cant get it to work > :( > > please help > > park > > > > > > -- > 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 >