PHP 7.0.6 Released

    COM Functions

    See Also

    For further information on COM read the » COM specification or perhaps take a look at Don Box's » Yet Another COM Library (YACL). You might find some additional useful information in our FAQ for PHP and COM. If you're thinking of using MS Office applications on the server side, you should read the information here: » Considerations for Server-Side Automation of Office.

    Table of Contents

    • com_create_guid — Generate a globally unique identifier (GUID)
    • com_event_sink — Connect events from a COM object to a PHP object
    • com_get_active_object — Returns a handle to an already running instance of a COM object
    • com_load_typelib — Loads a Typelib
    • com_message_pump — Process COM messages, sleeping for up to timeoutms milliseconds
    • com_print_typeinfo — Print out a PHP class definition for a dispatchable interface
    • variant_abs — Returns the absolute value of a variant
    • variant_add — "Adds" two variant values together and returns the result
    • variant_and — Performs a bitwise AND operation between two variants
    • variant_cast — Convert a variant into a new variant object of another type
    • variant_cat — concatenates two variant values together and returns the result
    • variant_cmp — Compares two variants
    • variant_date_from_timestamp — Returns a variant date representation of a Unix timestamp
    • variant_date_to_timestamp — Converts a variant date/time value to Unix timestamp
    • variant_div — Returns the result from dividing two variants
    • variant_eqv — Performs a bitwise equivalence on two variants
    • variant_fix — Returns the integer portion of a variant
    • variant_get_type — Returns the type of a variant object
    • variant_idiv — Converts variants to integers and then returns the result from dividing them
    • variant_imp — Performs a bitwise implication on two variants
    • variant_int — Returns the integer portion of a variant
    • variant_mod — Divides two variants and returns only the remainder
    • variant_mul — Multiplies the values of the two variants
    • variant_neg — Performs logical negation on a variant
    • variant_not — Performs bitwise not negation on a variant
    • variant_or — Performs a logical disjunction on two variants
    • variant_pow — Returns the result of performing the power function with two variants
    • variant_round — Rounds a variant to the specified number of decimal places
    • variant_set_type — Convert a variant into another type "in-place"
    • variant_set — Assigns a new value for a variant object
    • variant_sub — Subtracts the value of the right variant from the left variant value
    • variant_xor — Performs a logical exclusion on two variants

    User Contributed Notes

    ferozzahid [at] usa [dot] com
    11 years ago
    To pass a parameter by reference to a COM function, you need to pass VARIANT to it. Common data types like integers and strings will not work for it.

    As an example, calling a function that retrieves the name of a person will look like:

    <?php
    $Name     = new VARIANT;

    $comobj = new COM("MyCOMOBj.Component") or die("Couldn't create the COM Component");

    if(!    $comobj->GetName($Name)) {
        echo(    "Could not retrieve name");
    }
    else {
        echo(    "The name retrieved is : " . $Name->value);
    }
    ?>

    $Name->type will contain the type of the value stored in the VARIANT e.g. VT_BSTR.

    Note For PHP 5:

    Insted of '$Name->value', we can use only '$Name' for getting the value stored in the VARIANT. To get the type of the value stored in the VARIANT, use 'variant_get_type($Name)'.

    Feroz Zahid
    madon at cma-it dot com
    14 years ago
    I thought this excel chart example could be useful.

    Note the use of Excel.application vs Excel.sheet.

    <pre>
    <?php
            print "Hi";
    #Instantiate the spreadsheet component.
    #    $ex = new COM("Excel.sheet") or Die ("Did not connect");
    $exapp = new COM("Excel.application") or Die ("Did not connect");

    #Get the application name and version   
    print "Application name:{$ex->Application->value}<BR>" ;
    print     "Loaded version: {$ex->Application->version}<BR>";

    $wkb=$exapp->Workbooks->add();
    #$wkb = $ex->Application->ActiveWorkbook or Die ("Did not open workbook");
    print "we opened workbook<BR>";

    $ex->Application->Visible = 1; #Make Excel visible.
    print "we made excell visible<BR>";

    $sheets = $wkb->Worksheets(1); #Select the sheet
    print "selected a sheet<BR>";
    $sheets->activate; #Activate it
    print "activated sheet<BR>";

    #This is a new sheet
    $sheets2 = $wkb->Worksheets->add(); #Add a sheet
    print "added a new sheet<BR>";
    $sheets2->activate; #Activate it
    print "activated sheet<BR>";

    $sheets2->name="Report Second page";

    $sheets->name="Report First page";
    print     "We set a name to the sheet: $sheets->name<BR>";

    # fills a columns
    $maxi=20;
    for (    $i=1;$i<$maxi;$i++) {
            $cell = $sheets->Cells($i,5) ; #Select the cell (Row Column number)
            $cell->activate; #Activate the cell
            $cell->value = $i*$i; #Change it to 15000
    }

    $ch = $sheets->chartobjects->add(50, 40, 400, 100); # make a chartobject

    $chartje = $ch->chart; # place a chart in the chart object
    $chartje->activate; #activate chartobject
    $chartje->ChartType=63;
    $selected = $sheets->range("E1:E$maxi"); # set the data the chart uses
    $chartje->setsourcedata($selected); # set the data the chart uses
    print "set the data the chart uses <BR>";

    $file_name="D:/apache/Apache/htdocs/alm/tmp/final14.xls";
    if (    file_exists($file_name)) {unlink($file_name);}
    #$ex->Application->ActiveWorkbook->SaveAs($file_name); # saves sheet as final.xls
    $wkb->SaveAs($file_name); # saves sheet as final.xls
    print "saved<BR>";

    #$ex->Application->ActiveWorkbook->Close("False");   
    $exapp->Quit();
    unset(    $exapp);
    ?>

    </pre>

    Alex Madon
    alanraycom at el hogar dot net com
    12 years ago
    XSLT transformations using MSXML can be done with this code

    <?php
    function xsltransform1($xslpath,$xmlstring)
    {
          $xml= new COM("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
          $xml->async=false;
          // $xmlstring is an xml string
          $xml->load($xmlstring);
          $xsl = new COM("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
          $xsl->async=false;
          // $xslpath is path to an xsl file
          $xsl->load($xslpath);
          $response=$xml->transformNode($xsl);
      unset(    $xml);
      unset(    $xsl);
      return     $response;
    }
    ?>

    enjoy
    Alan Young
    tomfmason at nospam-gmail dot com
    8 years ago
    To get the cpu load percentage you can do something like this.

    <?php
    $wmi     = new COM('winmgmts://');
    $processor = $wmi->ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_Processor");
    foreach(    $processor as $obj){
            $cpu_load_time = $obj->LoadPercentage;
    }
    echo     $cpu_load_time;
    ?>

    reference http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394373.aspx

    To list current apache instances

    <?php
    $wmi     = new COM('winmgmts://');
    $processes = $wmi->ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_Process WHERE Name = 'httpd.exe'");
    foreach(    $processes as $process){
        echo     $process->CommandLine . "<br />";
        echo     $process->ProcessId . "<br />";
    }
    ?>

    reference http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394372.aspx

    To run a php script in a background process

    <?php
    $dir     = "C:\\path\\to\\dir";
    $php_path = "C:\\path\\to\\php.exe";
    $file = "somescript.php";
    //send time current timestamp
    $cmd_options = "-t " . time();
    $wscript = new COM('WScript.Shell');
    $wscript->Run("cmd /K CD $php_path $dir\\$file  &  ", 0, false);
    ?>

    Enjoy

    Tom
    naveed at php dot net
    9 years ago
    Here is a spell check implementation that displays the suggestion list for each misspelled word.

    <?php
    function SpellCheck($input)
    {
            $word=new COM("word.application") or die("Cannot create Word object");
            $word->Visible=false;
            $word->WindowState=2;
            $word->DisplayAlerts=false;
            $doc=$word->Documents->Add();
            $doc->Content=$input;
            $doc->CheckSpelling();
            $result= $doc->SpellingErrors->Count;
        if(    $result!=0)
        {
            echo     "Input text contains misspelled words.\n\n";
            for(    $i=1; $i <= $result; $i++)
            {       
                echo     "Original Word: " .$doc->SpellingErrors[$i]->Text."\n";
                    $list=$doc->SpellingErrors[$i]->GetSpellingSuggestions();
                echo     "Suggestions: ";
                for(    $j=1; $j <= $list->Count; $j++)
                {
                        $correct=$list->Item($j);
                    echo     $correct->Name.",";
                }
                echo     "\n\n";
            }
        }
        else
        {
            echo     "No spelling mistakes found.";
        }
            $word->ActiveDocument->Close(false);
            $word->Quit();
            $word->Release();
            $word=null;
    }

    $str="Hellu world. There is a spellling error in this sentence.";
    SpellCheck($str);
    ?>
    a dot kulikov at pool4tool dot com
    10 years ago
    In case you are wondering how to group rows or columns in the freshly created EXCEL files, then this may help you

    <?php
           /***
        * Grouping Rows optically in Excel Using a COM Object
        *
        * That was not easy, I have spent several hours of trial and error to get
        * this thing to work!!!
        *
        * @author Kulikov Alexey <a.kulikov@gmail.com>
        * @since  13.03.2006
        *
        * @see    Open Excel, Hit Alt+F11, thne Hit F2 -- this is your COM bible
        ***/

       //starting excel
           $excel = new COM("excel.application") or die("Unable to instanciate excel");
       print     "Loaded excel, version {$excel->Version}\n";

           //bring it to front
       #$excel->Visible = 1;//NOT

       //dont want alerts ... run silent
           $excel->DisplayAlerts = 0;

           //create a new workbook
           $wkb = $excel->Workbooks->Add();

           //select the default sheet
           $sheet=$wkb->Worksheets(1);

           //make it the active sheet
           $sheet->activate;

           //fill it with some bogus data
           for($row=1;$row<=7;$row++){
           for (    $col=1;$col<=5;$col++){

                  $sheet->activate;
                  $cell=$sheet->Cells($row,$col);
                  $cell->Activate;
                  $cell->value = 'pool4tool 4eva ' . $row . ' ' . $col . ' ak';
           }    //end of colcount for loop
           }

           ///////////
       // Select Rows 2 to 5
           $r = $sheet->Range("2:5")->Rows;

           // group them baby, yeah
           $r->Cells->Group;

           // save the new file
           $strPath = 'tfile.xls';
       if (    file_exists($strPath)) {unlink($strPath);}
           $wkb->SaveAs($strPath);

           //close the book
           $wkb->Close(false);
           $excel->Workbooks->Close();

           //free up the RAM
           unset($sheet);

           //closing excel
           $excel->Quit();

           //free the object
           $excel = null;
    ?>
    larrywalker at at chelseagroton dot com
    7 years ago
    To run a php script in a background process and pass it you var use

    <?php

    $WshShell     = new COM("WScript.Shell");
    $oExec = $WshShell->Run("c:\\xampp\\php\\php.exe

    c:\\xampp\\Not_on_Web\\ftptestback.php --user=    $username", 7, false);

    ?>

    Works for me.
    monica at digitaldesignservices dot com
    8 years ago
    Working with Word 2003 COM object. 

    Have you been trying to work with the Word.Application COM and the Word Document would crash and the PHP script would hang? 

    Turns out that there is an issue within the Office COM object that doesn't let the web application (IIS, Apache) scripting engine release the object after instancing the COM.  The Service Pack 3 office update claims to remedy this.  Will test and post findings.
    sk89q
    8 years ago
    The only way I've been able to call Win32 API functions with PHP5 has been through COM and DynamicWrapper.

    Here's an example to play a beep sound with your computer speaker:
    <?php
    $com     = new COM("DynamicWrapper");
    $com->Register("KERNEL32.DLL", "Beep", "i=ll", "f=s", "r=l");
    $com->Beep(5000, 100);
    ?>
    Francois-R dot Boyer at PolyMtl dot ca
    9 years ago
    I had the problem when trying to call Access VBA scripts from PHP; the call was working but Access would never quit.  The problem was that the Apache server is running as SYSTEM, and not a user we normally use to run Office.  And as the first time a user runs Office, it asked the SYSTEM user to enter its name and initials! ;-)

    To correct this problem: Stop Apache, go to Services, Apache, Properties, "Log On" tab, and check "Allow service to interact with desktop.  Restart Apache, then open your office application, in a page loaded by the Apache server, with a small PHP code like this, :

    <?php
    $app     = new COM("Access.Application"); // or Word.Application or Excel.Application ...
    $app->Visible = true; // so that we see the window on screen
    ?>

    Put the name you want and quit the application.  Now your Office application should terminate correctly the next time you load it with a COM object in PHP.  You can stop Apache uncheck the "Allow service to interact with desktop", and restart Apache if you like.  I don't even require a Quit or anything to be sent to Access, it quits automatically when PHP terminates.

    And for those who wish to know how I'm calling Access VBA scripts, instead of using ODBC or any other way to send SQL requests, which does not seem to work to call VBA scripts, I open the database as a COM object and it works fine:

    <?php
    $db_com     = new COM("pathname of the file.mdb");
    $result = $db_com->Application->Run("function_name", 'param1', 'param2', '...');
    ?>
    Anonymous
    9 years ago
    If someone want to get a COM object out of a DCOM object can do something like that:

    <?php
      $dcom_obj     = new COM('dacom.object','remotehost') or die("Unable to get DCOM object!");
          $com_obj = new Variant(NULL);
          $dcom_obj->Get_Module($com_obj); //user function which returns a custom IDispatch (casted as variant*)
    ?>

    Hopefully this will help someone, because it took me quite long to figure this out.
    kiotech at hotmail dot com
    9 years ago
    For use parameters with PHP this is a Code Example

    <?php
    $ObjectFactory    = New COM("CrystalReports11.ObjectFactory.1");
          $crapp = $ObjectFactory->CreateObject("CrystalDesignRunTime.Application");
          $creport = $crapp->OpenReport("//report1.rpt", 1);

      
              $z= $creport->ParameterFields(1)->SetCurrentValue("Mango");
              $z= $creport->ParameterFields(2)->SetCurrentValue(5000);

          $creport->ExportOptions->DiskFileName="reportin.pdf";
          $creport->ExportOptions->PDFExportAllPages=true;
          $creport->ExportOptions->DestinationType=1;   $creport->ExportOptions->FormatType=31;
          $creport->Export(false);

    $len = filesize("reportin.pdf");
    header("Content-type: application/pdf");
    header("Content-Length: $len");
    header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=reportin.pdf");
    readfile("reportin.pdf");
    ?>
    Pedro Heliodoro
    10 years ago
    Using the Windows Media Player OCX and the latest snap of PHP 5.1 i was able to eject a CD-ROM drive

    <?php
    //create an instance of Windows Media Player
    $mp = new COM("WMPlayer.OCX");
    //ejects the first cd-rom on the drive list
    $mp->cdromcollection->item(0)->eject();

    ?>
    sadi at unicornsoftbd dot com
    10 years ago
    There's no way to use static dlls in php. only way to use a dll in php is to make it a com object first and then using it in php like this

    <?php
    $NewCom    =new COM("uni.example");
    ?>

    once we created the COM object this can be used like any other php classes.
                           sadi
                           www.unicornsoftbd.com
    allan666 at gmail dot com
    10 years ago
    If you are using a COM object that opens windows or dialogs (like Office applications), those windows or dialogs will not appear and will stay invisible even if you use codes like    

    $word->visible = true;

    To solve this problem, go to the web service properties (Administrative Tools) and click (in the Logon TAB) "Allow the Service to Iterate with desktop".

    This explain lots of problems to close applications. When you try to close, the dialos asking to save the file must appear, but only in the option to iterate with desktop is on.

    Hope it helps.
    bruce at yourweb dot com dot au
    11 years ago
    Simple convert xls to csv
    <?php
    // starting excel
    $excel = new COM("excel.application") or die("Unable to instanciate excel");
    print     "Loaded excel, version {$excel->Version}\n";

    //bring it to front
    #$excel->Visible = 1;//NOT
    //dont want alerts ... run silent
    $excel->DisplayAlerts = 0;

    //open  document
    $excel->Workbooks->Open("C:\\mydir\\myfile.xls");
    //XlFileFormat.xlcsv file format is 6
    //saveas command (file,format ......)
    $excel->Workbooks[1]->SaveAs("c:\\mydir\\myfile.csv",6);

    //closing excel
    $excel->Quit();

    //free the object
    $excel->Release();
    $excel = null;
    ?>
    michael at example dot com
    11 years ago
    After alot of trouble with IIS 6/Windows 2003 and PHP 5.0.2 I figured out how to use Imagemagick COM+/OLE interface. Seems you have to recreate the COM object after each convert() otherwise it will sometimes fail with very strange errors, since the PHP COM interface is not as stable as the old ASP one apparently is.
    pelegk2 at walla DOT co DOT il
    11 years ago
    Printing to a network printer :
    read this note for :

    NOTE: Using COM with windows NT/2000/XP with apache as a service
    - Run dcomcnfg.exe
    - Find word application and click properties
    - Click the Security tab
    - Use Custom Access Permissions
    - Add the user who runs the web server service
    - Use Custom Launch permissions
    - Add the user who runs the web server service

    THEN

    <?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;
    //this is for example a printer on my network
    $word->ActivePrinter = "\\\\192.168.4.201\\printer1";

    // Open a word document, or anything else that word
    // can read
    $input ="c:\\test.html";
    $word->Documents->Open($input);

    $word->ActiveDocument->PrintOut();

    // closing word
    $word->Documents[1]->Close(false);
    $word->Quit();

    // free the object
    $word->Release();
    $word = null;
    unset(    $word);
    ?>
    Anonymous
    11 years ago
    if you want to add a new hyperlink with excel :

    <?php
    $cell    =$sheet->Range('O'.$j);
    $cell->Hyperlinks->Add($cell ,'here_your_file');
    ?>

    I write this note because is very difficult to find
    the good method to do that .

    Merci beaucoup
    sorin dot andrei at mymail dot ro
    11 years ago
    [Editor's Note:
    Serializing the object, storing it and then (on the next page) unserializing it WILL work.
    End Note]

    the big problem for PHP is it can't save in session an COM object

    an samples code is here. This works just first time, then give the error:
    Call to undefined method com::Refresh() on line  $mMap->Refresh();
    the reson is he can't save the object $mMap in session

    <?php
        session_start    ();
          if (isset(    $_SESSION['map'])) {
                    $mMap = $_SESSION['map'];
            }
            else
            {
                $ArcIMSConnector = new COM ("aims.ArcIMSConnector")  or die("can not create AIMS message object");
                echo     "Loaded ArcIMSConnector, <br>";
                    $ArcIMSConnector->ServerName = "map.sdsu.edu";
                    $ArcIMSConnector->ServerPort = 5300;

                    $mMap = new COM ("aims.Map")  or die("can not create aims.Map message object");
                echo     "Loaded aims.Map, <br>";
                print     "AIMS-ServerName= $ArcIMSConnector->ServerName <br>";

                    $resultInit= $mMap->InitMap($ArcIMSConnector,"Worldgeography");

                    $mMap->Width    = 400;            //                                'Width of the map in pixels
                    $mMap->Height   = 300;            //                                'Height of the map in pixels
                    $mMap->BackColor = 15130848;
                    $_SESSION['map'] = $mMap;
            }

            $resultRefresh = $mMap->Refresh();                                //Refresh the map
            $urlImage      = $mMap->GetImageAsUrl();
        print     "<br>urlImage=$urlImage<br>";

        print     "<br><IMG SRC='$urlImage'>";

    /*
        $ArcIMSConnector->Release();
        $ArcIMSConnector = null;

        $mMap->Release();
        $mMap = null;
    */

    ?>
    Shawn Coppock
    11 years ago
    For those of us that are not experts with object models, if you have Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Word available, go into the Visual Basic Editor (Alt+F11). Now you can open the object browser window (F2) and see what you find.

    If you select "Word" in the object browser, then the classes and members of that class are displayed below. For example, if you click on "Selection" in the classes column, and then "Font" in the members column, you will then see "Property Font As Font Member of Word.Selection" displayed at the bottom. Click on the "Font" link there.

    Click on Word "Selection" again in the classes column, and then "PageSetup" in the members column, you will then see "Property PageSetup As PageSetup Member of word.Selection" displayed at the bottom. Click on the "PageSetup" link there.

    Using the above examples, you can now formulate your Word Document from php. Here is a simple example that creates a 1 & 1/2" space for text based on the margin settings & with dark red text and an 8pt Helvetica font face:

    <?php
    $content     = "Insert Sample Text Here\n\nThis starts a new paragraph line.";
    $word= new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to create Word document");
    print     "Loaded Word, version {$word->Version}\n";
    $word->Visible = 0;
    $word->Documents->Add();
    $word->Selection->PageSetup->LeftMargin = '3"';
    $word->Selection->PageSetup->RightMargin = '4"';
    $word->Selection->Font->Name = 'Helvetica';
    $word->Selection->Font->Size = 8;
    $word->Selection->Font->ColorIndex= 13; //wdDarkRed = 13
    $word->Selection->TypeText("$content");
    $word->Documents[1]->SaveAs("some_tst.doc");
    $word->quit();
    echo     "done";
    ?>

    This example (and others) worked for me with Microsoft Word 10.0 Object Library (MS Word 2002), Apache & PHP on Windows XP. Experimenting using the Visual Basic editor will yield some amazing documents from PHP as it will help you see the relationships of the objects used and give you an idea as to how to construct your code. But be prepared for an occaisional PHP.exe crash if your code is way off base.

    Hope this helps!
    angelo [at] mandato <dot> com
    11 years ago
    Useful PHP functions I created (similar to other standard PHP database functions) for working with an ADO datasource:
    <?php
            // ado.inc.php
       
            $ADO_NUM = 1;
            $ADO_ASSOC = 2;
            $ADO_BOTH = 3;
       
        function     ado_connect( $dsn )
        {
                $link = new COM("ADODB.Connection");
                $link->Open($dsn);
            return     $link;
        }
       
        function     ado_close( $link )
        {
                $link->Close();
        }
       
        function     ado_num_fields( $rs )
        {
            return     $rs->Fields->Count;
        }
       
        function     ado_error($link)
        {
            return     $link->Errors[$link->Errors->Count-1]->Number;
        }
       
        function     ado_errormsg($link)
        {
            return     $link->Errors[$link->Errors->Count-1]->Description;
        }
       
        function     ado_fetch_array( $rs, $result_type,  $row_number = -1 )
        {
            global     $ADO_NUM, $ADO_ASSOC, $ADO_BOTH;
            if(     $row_number > -1 ) // Defined in adoint.h - adBookmarkFirst    = 1
                    $rs->Move( $row_number, 1 );
           
            if(     $rs->EOF )
                return     false;
           
                $ToReturn = array();
            for(     $x = 0; $x < ado_num_fields($rs); $x++ )
            {
                if(     $result_type == $ADO_NUM || $result_type == $ADO_BOTH )
                        $ToReturn[ $x ] = $rs->Fields[$x]->Value;
                if(     $result_type == $ADO_ASSOC || $result_type == $ADO_BOTH )
                        $ToReturn[ $rs->Fields[$x]->Name ] = $rs->Fields[$x]->Value;
            }
                $rs->MoveNext();
            return     $ToReturn;
        }
       
        function     ado_num_rows( $rs )
        {
            return     $rs->RecordCount;
        }
       
        function     ado_free_result( $rs )
        {
                $rs->Close();
        }
       
        function     ado_query( $link, $query )
        {
            return     $link->Execute($query);
        }
       
        function     ado_fetch_assoc( $rs,  $row_number = -1 )
        {
            global     $ADO_ASSOC;
            return      ado_fetch_array( $rs, $ADO_ASSOC, $row_number);
        }
       
        function     ado_fetch_row( $rs,  $row_number = -1 )
        {
            global     $ADO_NUM;
            return     ado_fetch_array( $rs, $ADO_NUM, $row_number);
        }
       
            // Extra functions:
            function ado_field_len( $rs, $field_number )
        {
            return     $rs->Fields[$field_number]->Precision;
        }
       
        function     ado_field_name( $rs, $field_number )
        {
            return     $rs->Fields[$field_number]->Name;
        }
       
        function     ado_field_scale( $rs, $field_number )
        {
            return     $rs->Fields[$field_number]->NumericScale;
        }
       
        function     ado_field_type( $rs, $field_number )
        {
            return     $rs->Fields[$field_number]->Type;
        }
       
    ?>

    The aod version was a typo.
    mark dickens at mindspring dot com
    12 years ago
    Just a note to those wanting to use COM to interface to printers under Windows 2000/XP.  If it doesn't work or seems to hang, try changing the logon identity under which the Apache (assuming you're using Apache) service is running from the System account to another account.  By default most services will install to run under the System account and although the System account has total authority on the computer it is running on, it has no authority outside of that realm as I understand it.  Apparently accessing printers is considered "outside the realm".  I used this technique to interface a Dymo thermal label printer to my server and it works now.
    chris at hitcatcher dot com
    12 years ago
    Many COM objects don't do well when passing long (win32) filenames as function parameters.  You can get the 8.3 name of the folder or file on *most* (some win platforms don't support it, and it can be toggled off in the registry for performance reasons) servers using the following:

    <?php
    //create FSO instance
    $exFSO = new COM("Scripting.FileSystemObject") or die ("Could not create Scripting.FileSystemObject");

    //set vars
    $myDir = "C:\\Program Files\\";
    $myFile = "a long file name.txt";

    //get folder & file objects
    $exDir = $exFSO->GetFolder($myDir);
    $exFile = $exFSO->GetFile($myDir . $myFile);
    echo     $exDir->ShortPath;
    echo     $exFile->ShortPath;
    ?>
    Anonymous
    12 years ago
    Here is an example of reading the custom properties like Author, Keywords, etc. which are stored in MS Office and other Windows files. You must install and register dsofile as described at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q224351. The .frm file in that distribution lists most of the available properties.

    <?php
    // the file you wish to access
    $fn = '/docs/MFA.xls';

    $oFilePropReader = new COM('DSOleFile.PropertyReader');
    $props = $oFilePropReader->GetDocumentProperties($fn);

    // one syntax
    $au = com_get($props, 'Author');
    print     "au: $au \n";

    //another syntax
    $str = 'LastEditedBy';
    $lsb = $props->$str;
    var_dump($lsb);

    // set a property if you wish
    if (!$props->IsReadOnly()) {
          $props->Subject = 'tlc';
    }
    ?>
    brana
    12 years ago
    How to send email via MAPI (works with Windows NT4, apache launched as a service)

    <?php
    #New MAPI session...
    $session = new COM("MAPI.Session");

    #Login
    $strProfileInfo = "exchange_server" . chr(10) . "exchange_user";
    $session->Logon("", "", 0, 1, 0, 1, $strProfileInfo);
               
    # New message...
    $msg = $session->Outbox->Messages->Add();
    $msg->Subject = "Subject";
    $msg->Text = "body";
           
    #set recipients...
    $rcpts = $msg->Recipients;
    $rcpts->AddMultiple("toto@toto.com", 1);   #To...
    $rcpts->AddMultiple("titi@titi.com", 2);   #Cc...
    $rcpts->AddMultiple("tutu@tutu.com", 3);   #Bcc...

    # Resolve senders
    $rcpts->Resolve();
                   
    #Send message
    $msg->Send();   

    #Logoff           
    $session->Logoff();   
           
    #Cleanup
    if($msg!=null) {
            $msg->Release();
            $msg = null;
    }       
    if(    $session!=null) {
            $session->Release();
            $session = null;
    }               
    ?>

    ps : NT account launching the service and exchange user must match !
    php at dictim dot com
    12 years ago
    This took me days to work out how to do so I gotta share it:

    How to get the word count from a MS Word Document:

    <?php
    #Instantiate the Word component.

    $word = new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to instantiate Word");

    $word->Visible = 1;

    $word->Documents->Open("c:/anydocument.doc");
    $temp = $word->Dialogs->Item(228);
    $temp->Execute();
    $numwords = $temp->Words();

    echo     $numwords;

    $word->Quit();
    ?>

    Note that this is the only way to get the word count accurately:
    $word->ActiveDocument->Words->Count;
    Will see all carriage returns and punctuation as words so is wildy innaccurate.
    tomas dot pacl at atlas dot cz
    12 years ago
    Passing parameters by reference in PHP 4.3.2 (and in a future releases of PHP )

    In PHP 4.3.2 allow_call_time_pass_reference option is set to "Off" by default and future versions may not support this option any longer.
    Some COM functions has by-reference parameters. VARIANT object must be used to call this functions, but it would be passed without an '&' before variable name.

    Example:

    <?php
    $myStringVariant     = new VARIANT("over-write me", VT_BSTR);

    /* works */
    $result = $comobj->DoSomethingTo($myStringVariant );

    /* works only with allow_call_time_pass_reference option set to "On" and may not work in a future release of PHP */
    $result = $comobj->DoSomethingTo(&$myStringVariant );

    /* The value in the variant can be retrieved by: */
    $theActualValue = $myStringVariant->value;
    ?>
    richard dot quadling at carval dot co dot uk
    13 years ago
    With thanks to Harald Radi and Wez Furlong.

    Some VBA functions have optional parameters. Sometimes the parameters you want to pass are not consecutive.

    e.g.

    GoTo What:=wdGoToBookmark, Name="BookMarkName"
    GoTo(wdGoToBookmark,,,"BookMarkName)

    In PHP, the "blank" parameters need to be empty.

    Which is ...

    <?php
    // Some servers may have an auto timeout, so take as long as you want.
    set_time_limit(0);

    // Show all errors, warnings and notices whilst developing.
    error_reporting(E_ALL);

    // Used as a placeholder in certain COM functions where no parameter is required.
    $empty = new VARIANT();

    // Load the appropriate type library.
    com_load_typelib('Word.Application');

    // Create an object to use.
    $word = new COM('word.application') or die('Unable to load Word');
    print     "Loaded Word, version {$word->Version}\n";

    // Open a new document with bookmarks of YourName and YourAge.
    $word->Documents->Open('C:/Unfilled.DOC');

    // Fill in the information from the form.
    $word->Selection->GoTo(wdGoToBookmark,$empty,$empty,'YourName'); // Note use of wdGoToBookmark, from the typelibrary and the use of $empty.
    $word->Selection->TypeText($_GET['YourName']);

    $word->Selection->GoTo(wdGoToBookmark,$empty,$empty,'YourAge');
    $word->Selection->TypeText($_GET['YourAge']);

    // Save it, close word and finish.
    $word->Documents[1]->SaveAs("C:/{$_GET['YourName']}.doc");
    $word->Quit();
    $word->Release();
    $word = null;
    print     "Word closed.\n";
    ?>

    The example document is ...

    Hello [Bookmark of YourName], you are [Bookmark of YourAge] years old.

    and it would be called ...

    word.php?YourName=Richard%20Quadling&YourAge=35

    Regards,

    Richard.
    pchason at juno dot com
    13 years ago
    Searched for days on how to set up a multi-column html output grid that didn't use an array when creating an ADODB connection. Couldn't find one so I figured it out myself. Pretty simple. Wish I would have tried it myself sooner. Commented code with database connection is below...

    <html>
    <body>
    <table>
    <?php
    //create the database connection
    $conn = new COM("ADODB.Connection");
    $dsn = "DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)}; DBQ=" . realpath("mydb.mdb");
    $conn->Open($dsn);
    //pull the data through SQL string
    $rs = $conn->Execute("select clients from web");
    $clients = $rs->Fields(1);
    //start the multicolumn data output
    $i = 0;
    $columns = 5;
    while (!    $rs->EOF){
    //if $i equals 0, start a row
    if($i == 0){
    echo     "<tr>";
    }
    //then start writing the cells in the row, increase $i by one, and move to the next record
    echo "<td>" . $clients->value . "</td>";
    $i++;
    $rs->movenext();
    //once $i increments to equal $columns, end the row,
    //and start the process over by setting $i to 0
    if($i == $columns || $rs->EOF) {
    echo     "</tr>";
    $i = 0;
        }
    }
    //end multicolumn data output

    //close the ADO connections and release resources
    $rs->Close();
    $conn->Close();
    $rs = null;
    $conn = null; ?>
    </table>
    </body>
    </html>
    tedknightusa at hotmail dot com
    13 years ago
    A Notes example:

    <?php
    $session     = new COM "Lotus.NotesSession" );
    $session->Initialize($password);
       
    $someDB = "C:\Lotus\Notes\Data\somedb.nsf";
    $db = $session->GetDatabase("", $someDB) or die("Cannot get someDB.nsf");
    $view = $db->GetView("some_view") or die("Some View not found");

    $doc = $view->GetFirstDocument() or die("Unable to get Initial Some Document");

    // loop through
    while($doc){
          $col_vals = $doc->ColumnValues();
      echo     $col_vals[0];
          $doc = $view->GetNextDocument($doc);
    }
    ?>
    dwt at myrealbox dot com
    13 years ago
    When first writing applications instancing COM objects I always faced the problem of the instanced program not terminating correctly although everything else worked fine. In fact the process had to be killed manually by using the task manager. When experimenting a bit I was able to isolate the cause for this peculiar behaviour to be illustrated by the sample code below:

    <?php

    //Accessing arrays by retrieving elements via function ArrayName(Index) works, but certainly is neither efficient nor good style
    $excel=new COM("Excel.Application");
    $excel->sheetsinnewworkbook=1;
    $excel->Workbooks->Add();

    $book=$excel->Workbooks(1);
    $sheet=$book->Worksheets(1);

    $sheet->Name="Debug-Test";
    $book->saveas("C:\\debug.xls");

    $book->Close(false);
    unset(    $sheet);
    unset(    $book);
    $excel->Workbooks->Close();
    $excel->Quit();
    unset(    $excel);

    //Accessing arrays as usual (using the [] operator) works, buts leads to the application not being able to terminate by itself
    $excel=new COM("Excel.Application");
    $excel->sheetsinnewworkbook=1;
    $excel->Workbooks->Add();

    $excel->Workbooks[1]->Worksheets[1]->Name="Debug-Test";
    $excel->Workbooks[1]->saveas("C:\\debug.xls");

    $excel->Workbooks[1]->Close(false);
    $excel->Workbooks->Close();
    $excel->Quit();
    unset(    $excel);

    ?>

    The sample code performs the same action twice and each time the file is properly created. Yet for some mysterious reason the instanced excel process won't terminate once you've accessed an array the way most programmers (especially those who do a lot of oop in c++) do! Therefore until the PHP developers become aware of this problem we'll have to use the inefficient coding style illustrated in the first example.
    vedanta dot barooah at gmail dot com
    10 years ago
    Microsoft provides two binaries to create windows services: INSTSRV.EXE and SRVANY.EXE, using these php scripts can be run as windows services.

    More information is available at: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=137890
    dazb@localhost
    10 years ago
    For permissions problems, etc. including "Could Not Open Macro Storage" with Word;
    How To Configure Office Applications to Run Under the Interactive User Account

    http://theether.net/download/Microsoft/kb/288366.html

    [EDITOR NOTE: As reported by "damir@example", the link originally provided in this note is dead. The note was updated with a new link sent from "damir". - Editor thiago AT php DOT net]
    mpg123 at thinstall dot com
    10 years ago
    I found the lack of good online docs about how to access a windows environment very frustrating.  I finally found something here: http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=92358 but it's a php4 way.  I cleaned up the code, added introspection for methods and voila.  Thanks and credit to the original posters.

    <?php
    // php translation of asp script by Bill Wooten from
    // http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/082802-1.shtml
    function showServices($vComputerName, $vClass)  {
            $objLocator = new COM("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator");

        if(    $vComputerName == "") $objService = $objLocator->ConnectServer();
        else                         $objService = $objLocator->ConnectServer($vComputerName);

            $objWEBM = $objService->Get($vClass);
            $objProp = $objWEBM->Properties_;
            $objMeth = $objWEBM->Methods_;

        foreach(    $objMeth as $methItem) echo "Method: " . $methItem->Name ."\r\n";

        echo     "\r\n";

            $objWEBMCol = $objWEBM->Instances_();

        foreach(    $objWEBMCol as $objItem) {

            echo     "[" . $objItem->Name . "]\r\n";

            foreach(    $objProp as $propItem) {
                   $tmp = $propItem->Name;
               echo     "$tmp: " . $objItem->$tmp . "\r\n";
            }

             echo     "\r\n";
        }
    }

    // Test the function:
    showServices("", "Win32_Processor");
    showServices("", "Win32_LogicalDisk");
    angelo [at] mandato <dot> com
    11 years ago
    ADO + PHP5 + SQL DATE FIELDS

    Using a COM("ADODB.Connection") object in PHP4 and PHP5 to return date fields in databases will have different results.

    In PHP4, the date is returned as a string as represented in the database.  In my case, '2005-04-11 11:35:44'.

    In PHP5, the date is returned as a VARIANT type, when printed or implicitly casted would result as '4/11/2005 11:35:44 AM'.

    For this example, the solution is to use the variant conversion function variant_date_to_timestamp() to convert the value to a Unix timestamp.

    Please refer to this as an example.  Other date types may be converted using one of the other variant_<convert> functions.
    Jack dot CHLiang at gmail dot com
    11 years ago
    If you want to search an Excel file and don't connect with ODBC, you can try the function I provide. It will search a keyword in the Excel find and return its sheet name, text, field and the row which found the keyword.

    <?php

    // The example of print out the result
    $result = array();
    searchEXL("C:/test.xls", "test", $result);

    foreach(    $result as $sheet => $rs){
        echo     "Found at $sheet";
       
        echo     "<table width=\"100%\" border=\"1\"><tr>";
       
        for(    $i = 0; $i < count($rs["FIELD"]); $i++)
            echo     "<th>" . $rs["FIELD"][$i] . "</th>";
       
        echo     "</tr>";
       
        for(    $i = 0; $i < count($rs["TEXT"]); $i++) {
            echo     "<tr>";
           
            for(    $j = 0; $j < count($rs["FIELD"]); $j++)
                echo     "<td>" . $rs["ROW"][$i][$j] . "</td>";
                   
            echo     "</tr>";
        }
        echo     "</table>";

    }

    /**
    * @param $file string The excel file path
    * @param $keyword string The keyword
    * @param $result array The search result
    */

    function searchEXL($file, $keyword, &$result) {
               $exlObj = new COM("Excel.Application") or Die ("Did not connect");
               $exlObj->Workbooks->Open($file);
               $exlBook = $exlObj->ActiveWorkBook;
               $exlSheets = $exlBook->Sheets;
      
           for(    $i = 1; $i <= $exlSheets->Count; $i++) {
                   $exlSheet = $exlBook->WorkSheets($i);
          
                   $sheetName = $exlSheet->Name;
          
               if(    $exlRange = $exlSheet->Cells->Find($keyword)) {
                    $col = 1;
                while(    $fields = $exlSheet->Cells(1, $col)) {
                            if(    $fields->Text == "")
                        break;
                       
                        $result[$sheetName]["FIELD"][] = $fields->Text;
                        $col++;           
                }
           
                    $firstAddress = $exlRange->Address;
                    $finding = 1;           
                    $result[$sheetName]["TEXT"][] = $exlRange->Text;
               
                for(    $j = 1; $j <= count($result[$sheetName]["FIELD"]); $j++) {
                        $cell = $exlSheet->Cells($exlRange->Row ,$j);
                        $result[$sheetName]["ROW"][$finding - 1][$j - 1] = $cell->Text;
                }

                while(    $exlRange = $exlRange->Cells->Find($keyword)) {
                       if(    $exlRange->Address == $firstAddress)
                        break;           
               
                        $finding++;
                        $result[$sheetName]["TEXT"][] = $exlRange->Text;
                   
                    for(    $j = 1; $j <= count($result[$sheetName]["FIELD"]); $j++) {
                            $cell = $exlSheet->Cells($exlRange->Row ,$j);
                            $result[$sheetName]["ROW"][$finding - 1][$j - 1] = $cell->Text;
                    }
                   
                }
                        
               }
          
        }
      
           $exlBook->Close(false);
       unset(    $exlSheets);
           $exlObj->Workbooks->Close();
       unset(    $exlBook);
           $exlObj->Quit;
       unset(    $exlObj);
    }
    ?>

    For more information, please visit my blog site (written in Chinese)
    http://www.microsmile.idv.tw/blog/index.php?p=77
    Jason Neal
    11 years ago
    If you are having issues with the outlook.application locking up when you try to access it, ensure that your apache server is running in the context of a user on the machine instead of the system account.
    kleontiv -at- combellga -dot- ru
    12 years ago
    I think some one wants to access to Microsoft Active Directory using ADSI with different credential by PHP. You can also do it via pure LDAP but using ADSI it is more simpler.

    On VB, VBS or ASP you can do like folowing (so not trivial):

    <%
    Set dso = GetObject("LDAP:")

    Set DsObj = dso.OpenDSObject( _
        "LDAP://DC=mydomain,DC=com", _
        "DOMAIN\login", _
        "password", _
        ADS_SECURE_AUTHENTICATION + ADS_SERVER_BIND + ADS_USE_ENCRYPTION)

    for each Obj in DsObj
        Response.Write Obj.name & " with class of: " & Obj.class & "<br>"
    next
    %>

    On PHP you can do like that:

    <?php
    $ADSI     = new COM("LDAP:") ;

    $DsObj = $ADSI->OpenDsObject("LDAP://DC=mydomain,DC=com",
                                     "DOMAIN\login",
                                     "password",
                                     515) ;

    while(    $Obj = $DsObj->Next())
    {
      echo     $Obj->name.' with class of: '.$Obj->class.'<br>' ;
    }
    ?>

    The access type enumeration you can use as ADS_AUTHENTICATION_ENUM.
    Anonymous
    12 years ago
    Convert Microsoft word document .DOC to adobe acrobat .PS or .PDF files:

    Drawback: if any dialog boxes pop up, the conversion will become non-automated.

    <?php
    // You must have word and adobe acrobat distiller on
    // your system, although theoretically any printer driver
    // that makes .PS files would work.

    // 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;

    // Select the acrobat distiller as the active printer.
    // I presume that you could also use the Acrobat PDF writer // driver that comes with Acrobat full version.
    $word->ActivePrinter = "Acrobat Distiller";

    // Open a word document, or anything else that word
    // can read
    $word->Documents->Open($input);

    // This will create a .PS file called $output
    $word->ActiveDocument->PrintOut(0, 0, 0, $output);

    // If you need a .pdf instead, use the acrobat
    // distiller's watched folder option.

    // closing word
    $word->Quit();

    // free the object
    $word->Release();
    $word = null;

    ?>
    angelo [at] mandato <dot> com
    11 years ago
    Useful PHP MSWord class I created to do some simple file conversions.  This class could have a lot more to it but I am not familiar with all the COM MS Word function calls.
    <?php
            // msword.inc.php
       
        // NOTE: Using COM with windows NT/2000/XP with apache as a service
        // - Run dcomcnfg.exe
        // - Find word application and click properties
        // - Click the Security tab
        // - Use Custom Access Permissions
        //      - Add the user who runs the web server service
        // - Use Custom Launch permissions
        //      - Add the user who runs the web server service
       
            $wdFormatDocument = 0;
            $wdFormatTemplate = 1;
            $wdFormatText = 2;
            $wdFormatTextLineBreaks = 3;
            $wdFormatDOSText = 4;
            $wdFormatDOSTextLineBreaks = 5;
            $wdFormatRTF = 6;
            $wdFormatUnicodeText = 7;
            $wdFormatHTML=8;

        class     MSWord
            {
                // Vars:
                var $handle;
           
                // Create COM instance to word
                function MSWord($Visible = false)
            {
                    $this->handle = new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to instanciate Word");
                    $this->handle->Visible = $Visible;
            }
           
                // Open existing document
                function Open($File)
            {
                    $this->handle->Documents->Open($File);
            }
           
                // Create new document
                function NewDocument()
            {
                    $this->handle->Documents->Add();
            }
           
                // Write text to active document
                function WriteText( $Text )
            {
                    $this->handle->Selection->Typetext( $Text );
            }
           
                // Number of documents open
                function DocumentCount()
            {
                return     $this->handle->Documents->Count;
            }
           
                // Save document as another file and/or format
                function SaveAs($File, $Format = 0 )
            {
                    $this->handle->ActiveDocument->SaveAs($File, $Format);
            }
           
                // Save active document
                function Save()
            {
                    $this->handle->ActiveDocument->Save();
            }
           
                // close active document.
                function Close()
            {
                    $this->handle->ActiveDocument->Close();
            }
           
                // Get word version
                function GetVersion()
            {
                return     $this->handle->Version;
            }
           
                // get handle to word
                function GetHandle()
            {
                return     $this->handle;
            }
       
                // Clean up instance with word
                function Quit()
            {
                if(     $this->handle )
                {
                        // close word
                        $this->handle->Quit();
       
                        // free the object
                        $this->handle->Release();
                        $this->handle = null;
                }
            }
        };

    ?>

    Example 1, opens an html file, writes text to it, then saves it as a document:
    <?php
        $input     = "C:\\test.htm";
            $output = "C:\\test.doc";

            $Word = new MSWord;
            $Word->Open($input);
            $Word->WriteText("This is a test ");
            $Word->SaveAs($output);
            $Word->Quit();
    ?>

    Example 2, opens an html file, then saves it as a rtf file:
    <?php
        $input     = "C:\\test.htm";
            $output = "C:\\test.rtf";

            $Word = new MSWord;
            $Word->Open($input);
            $Word->SaveAs($output, $wdFormatRTF);
            $Word->Quit();
    ?>
    platiumstar at canada dot com
    12 years ago
    I didn't found any working examples of PHP using the MSMQ COM object, so I made up one, thought I share it with everybody..it works ok.
    You have to create a local Public message queue named "TestQueue" first.

    <?php
    define    (MQ_SEND_ACCESS , 2);
    define(MQ_DENY_NONE , 0);

    $msgQueueInfo =  new COM("MSMQ.MSMQQueueInfo") or die("can not create MSMQ Info object");
    $msgQueueInfo->PathName = ".\TestQueue";
           
    $msgQueue =  new COM("MSMQ.MSMQQueue") or die("can not create MSMQ object");
    $msgQueue=$msgQueueInfo->Open(MQ_SEND_ACCESS, MQ_DENY_NONE );
           
    $msgOut = new COM("MSMQ.MSMQMessage") or die("can not create MSMQ message object");               
    $msgOut->Body = "Hello world!";
    $msgOut->Send($msgQueue);
           
    $msgQueue->Close();       
    unset(    $msgOut);
    unset(    $msgQueue);
    unset(    $msgQueueInfo);
    ?>

    enjoy
    PS
    kleontiv -at- combellga -dot- ru
    12 years ago
    And here is an example of using ADSI via ADODB. This sample is unique because only ADODB can provide recursive Active directory searching and listing. But ADODB can only READ Active directory. So you can find something by ADODB and then modify that directly by ADSI.

    With previos example this help build you PHP coded interface to Menaging and browsing Microsoft Active Directory.

    Also ADODB on ADSI helps you sort recordset and search on it.

    <?php

    $objConnection     = new COM ("ADODB.Connection") ;
    $objConnection->Open("Provider=ADsDSOObject;user id=DOMAIN\\login;password=your_passowrd;") ;

    $objCommand = new COM("ADODB.Command") ;
    $objCommand->ActiveConnection = $objConnection ;

    $Cmd  = "<LDAP://dc=mydomain,dc=com>;" ;
    $Cmd .= "(&(objectClass=user)(mail=*)(!cn=SystemMailbox*));" ;
    $Cmd .= "name,mail,telephoneNumber;subtree" ;

    $objCommand->Properties['Sort On']->Value = "name" ;

    $objCommand->CommandText = $Cmd ;
    $objRecordSet = $objCommand->Execute() ;

    $OrderNumber = 0 ;
    while(!    $objRecordSet->EOF())
    {
          $OrderNumber ++ ;
          $nn = $objRecordSet->Fields['name']->Value ;
          $mm = $objRecordSet->Fields['mail']->Value ;
          $ph = $objRecordSet->Fields['telephoneNumber']->Value ;
      echo     "$OrderNumber: $nn mail: $mm phone: $ph<br>" ;
          $objRecordSet->MoveNext() ;
    }

    Echo     "===========================<br>" ;
    Echo     "All MailBoxes: " ;
    Echo     $objRecordSet->RecordCount() ;
    $objRecordSet->Close() ;
    $objCommand->Close() ;
    $objConnection->Close() ;

    unset(    $objRecordSet) ;
    unset(    $objCommand) ;
    unset(    $objConnection) ;

    ?>
    court shrock
    12 years ago
    took me a while until I found out how to loop through COM objects in PHP.... in ASP, you use something like:

    <%
    set domainObject = GetObject("WinNT://Domain")

    for each obj in domainObject
      Response.write obj.Name & "<br>"
    next

    %>

    I finally found a note in a PHP bogus bug report that said you needed to do something like this (this is using ADSI):

    <?php
    $adsi     = new COM("WinNT://Domain");

    while(    $obj = $adsi->Next()) {
      echo     $obj->Name.'<br>';
    }    // while

    // will list all the names of all objects in the domain 'Domain'
    ?>

    Also, you can access the IIS metabase by doing something like the following:

    <?php
    $iis     = new COM("IIS://localhost/w3svc");

    while(    $obj = $iis->Next()) {
      if (    $obj->Class == 'IISWebServer') {
            $site = new COM("IIS://Localhost/w3svc/".$obj->Name);
        echo     'serviceID ('.$obj->Name.'): '.$site->ServerComment.'<br>';
            $bindings = $site->ServerBindings;
       
        echo     '<ul>';
        foreach(    $bindings as $binding) {
          list(    $ip, $port, $hostHeader) = explode(':', $binding);
          echo     "<li>$ip:$port -- $hostHeader</li>";
        }    // foreach
            echo '</ul>';

            // hint: ssl bindings are in $site->SecureBindings

            unset($site);

      }    // if
     
    }// while
    unset($iis);

    // will list all the sites and their bindings on 'localhost'
    ?>
    seidenberg at cf-mail dot net
    12 years ago
    open PDF Documents with Internet Explorer

    <?php
    $browser     = new COM("InternetExplorer.Application");
    $browser->Visible = true;
    $browser->Navigate("path_to_your_pdf_document");
    ?>

    this works for me with php-gtk
    php at racinghippo dot co dot uk
    13 years ago
    PASSING/RETURNING PARAMETERS BY REFERENCE
    =========================================

    Some COM functions not only return values through the return value, but also act upon a variable passed to it as a parameter *By Reference*:

    RetVal = DoSomethingTo (myVariable)

    Simply sticking an '&' in front of myVariable doesn't work - you need to pass it a variant of the correct type, as follows:

      $myStringVariant = new VARIANT("over-write me", VT_BSTR);
      $result = $comobj->DoSomethingTo( &$myStringVariant );

    The value in the variant can then be retrieved by:

      $theActualValue = $myStringVariant->value;

    Other types of variant can be created as your needs demand - see the preceding section on the VARIANT type.
    alex at domini dot net
    13 years ago
    To manage the Windows Register at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ use these functions:

    <?php

    /**
    * @return string
    * @param aplicacio string
    * @param nom string
    * @desc Retorna el valor del registre HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\aplicacio\nom
    */
    function rtv_registre($aplicacio, $nom)
    {
        Global     $WshShell;
            $registre =  "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\\" . $aplicacio . "\\"  . $nom;
            $valor = $WshShell->RegRead($registre);
        return(    $valor);
       
       
    }

    /**
    * @return string
    * @param aplicacio string
    * @param nom string
    * @param valor string
    * @param tipus string
    * @desc Actualitza el valor del registre HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\aplicacio\nom
    */
    function put_registre($aplicacio, $nom, $valor, $tipus="REG_SZ")
    {
        Global     $WshShell;
            $registre =  "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\\" . $aplicacio . "\\"  . $nom;
            $retorn = $WshShell->RegWrite($registre, $valor, $tipus);
        return(    $retorn);
       
       
    }

    //
    // Creem una inst�ncia del COM que ens serveix per
    // accedir al registre de Windows, i la mantenim.
    // D'aquesta manera millorem el rendiment.
    $WshShell = new COM("WScript.Shell");
    ?>
    nospam at bol dot com dot br
    13 years ago
    This is a sample to make a parametrized query using ADO via COM, this sample was used with Foxpro but will work's with most ADO complient databases. This was tested on IIS with WIN XP pro.

    <?php
    // Create the main connection
    $dbc = new COM("ADODB.Connection")  or die ("connection create fail");
    $dbc->Provider = "MSDASQL";
    $dbc->Open("FoxDatabase");
    // Creates a temporary record set
    $RSet = new COM("ADODB.Recordset");
    // Create one ADO command
    $cm   = new COM("ADODB.Command");
    $cm->Activeconnection = $dbc;
    // the ? inside values will be the parameters $par01 and $par02
    $cm->CommandText =  "Insert Into testtable ( mycharfield,mymemofield) VALUES (?,?)" ;
    $cm->Prepared = TRUE;
    // Creates and append 2 parameters
    $par01 = $cm->CreateParameter('ppar01',129,1,50,'ABCDEFGHIKL');
    $cm->Parameters->Append($par01);
    $par02 = $cm->CreateParameter('ppar01',129,1,50,'123456789012346789');
    $cm->Parameters->Append($par02);
    // Call 10 times the exec comand to show 10 different queries
    for ($i = 1; $i <= 10; $i++) {
          $par01->Value = 'Count '.$i;
          $par02->Value = 'Passing here'.$i.' times';
          $RSet = $cm->Execute;
    }
    $RSet = $dbc->Execute("select * from testtable");
    while (!    $RSet->EOF){
      echo     $RSet->fields["mycharfield"]->value.' ' ;
      echo     $RSet->fields["mymemofield"]->value ;
      echo     '<BR>';
          $RSet->movenext();
    }
    $RSet->close;
    $dbc->close;
    $cm->close;   
    $RSet = null;
    $dbc = null;
    $cm = null;
    ?>
    admin at purplerain dot org
    14 years ago
    an easy way to convert your file from .doc to .html

    <?php
    // starting word
    $word = new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to instanciate Word");

    // if you want see thw World interface the value must be '1' else '0'
    $word->Visible = 1;

    //doc file location
    $word->Documents->Open("E:\\first.doc");

    //html file location  '8' mean HTML format
    $word->Documents[1]->SaveAs("E:\\test_doc.html",8);

    //closing word
    $word->Quit();

    //free the object from the memory
    $word->Release();
    $word = null;
    ?>
    admin at purplerain dot org
    14 years ago
    An easy way to send e-mail using your default Outlook account:

    <?php
    $objApp     = new COM("Outlook.Application");
    $myItem = $objApp->CreateItem(olMailItem);
    $a=$myItem->Recipients->Add("admin@purplerain.org");
    $myItem->Subject="Subject";
    $myItem->Body="This is a Body Section now.....!";
    $myItem->Display();
    $myItem->Send();
    ?>
    david at wu-man dot com
    12 years ago
    After many hours of trial and error, I have finally discovered how to kill the notorious Word process.  I hope my solution works for everyone else.

    #1) $word->Quit() is perfectly fine.  Don't bother feeding in as parameter those empty variants.

    #2) Do NOT have com_load_typelib('Word.Application') anywhere in your script.

    #3) Make sure you have the following line before $word->Quit() :

    $word->Documents[1]->Close(false);

    #4) Add the following lines after $word->Quit() :

    <?php
    $word    ->Release();
    $word = null;
    unset(    $word);
    ?>

    If my solution indeed helped you with your problem, please email me and let me know.  I would like to see if the problem was indeed solved.
    wiliamfeijo at gmail dot com
    9 years ago
    This code use a Crystal Reports file with a connection on
    Oracle 9i Database, suports manipulate and refresh data
    and export to PDF file:

    ------ REMEMBER ------
    These functions are only available if you had instaled the
    Crystal Reports Developer Edition. Catch the trial on the
    http://www.businessobjects.com web site.

    <?php
    //------  Variables ------
    $my_report = "C:\\rel_apontamento.rpt";
    $my_pdf = "C:\\teste.pdf";

    //------ Create a new COM Object of Crytal Reports XI ------
    $ObjectFactory= new
    COM("CrystalReports11.ObjectFactory.1");

    //------ Create a instance of library Application -------
    $crapp
    =$ObjectFactory->
    CreateObject("CrystalDesignRunTime.Application.11");

    //------ Open your rpt file ------
    $creport = $crapp->OpenReport($my_report, 1);

    //------ Connect to Oracle 9i DataBase ------
    $crapp->LogOnServer('crdb_oracle.dll','YOUR_TNS',
    'YOUR_TABLE','YOUR_LOGIN','YOUR_PASSWORD');

    //------ Put the values that you want --------
    $creport->RecordSelectionFormula=
    "{YOUR_TABLE.FIELD}='ANY_VALUE'";

    //------ This is very important. DiscardSavedData make a
    Refresh in your data -------
    $creport->DiscardSavedData;

    //------ Read the records :-P -------
    $creport->ReadRecords();

    //------ Export to PDF -------
    $creport->ExportOptions->DiskFileName=$my_pdf;
    $creport->ExportOptions->FormatType=31;
    $creport->ExportOptions->DestinationType=1;
    $creport->Export(false);

    //------ Release the variables
    $creport = null;
    $crapp = null;
    $ObjectFactory = null;
    ?>

    It's functional and perfectly !!!!!!!

    Thanks.....
    codeslinger at compsalot dot com
    6 years ago
    it took me awhile to track this down, the website given below is long gone, and it was hard to find the new site, so thought I would post it here.

    Here is the current website for DynamicWrapper
    http://freenet-homepage.de/gborn/WSHBazaar/WSHDynaCall.htm

    DynamicWrapper and WinBinder are dlls which enable php to call windows api's directly.

    see notes below for an example of using DynamicWrapper.

    It is an interesting alternative to http://www.winbinder.org  which does similar things.
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