COM
    (no version information, might be only in CVS)
COM -- COM class
Synopsis
| $obj = new COM("server.object") | 
Description
    The COM class provides a framework to integrate (D)COM components into
    your PHP scripts.
   
Methods
string 
COM::COM ( string module_name [, string server_name [, int codepage]])
    COM class constructor. Parameters:
    
- module_name
- 
      name or class-id of the requested component.
      
- server_name
- 
      name of the DCOM server from which the component should be fetched.
      If NULL, localhost is assumed.
      To allow DCOM com.allow_dcom has to be set to 
      TRUE in php.ini.
      
- codepage
- 
      specifies the codepage that is used to convert php-strings to
      unicode-strings and vice versa. Possible values are
      CP_ACP, CP_MACCP,
      CP_OEMCP, CP_SYMBOL,
      CP_THREAD_ACP, CP_UTF7
      and CP_UTF8.
      
    
| Example 1. COM example (1) | 
<?php// starting word
 $word = new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to instanciate Word");
 echo "Loaded Word, version {$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;
 ?>
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| Example 2. COM example (2) | 
<?php
 $conn = new COM("ADODB.Connection") or die("Cannot start ADO");
 $conn->Open("Provider=SQLOLEDB; Data Source=localhost;
 Initial Catalog=database; User ID=user; Password=password");
 
 $rs = $conn->Execute("SELECT * FROM sometable");    // Recordset
 
 $num_columns = $rs->Fields->Count();
 echo $num_columns . "\n";
 
 for ($i=0; $i < $num_columns; $i++) {
 $fld[$i] = $rs->Fields($i);
 }
 
 $rowcount = 0;
 while (!$rs->EOF) {
 for ($i=0; $i < $num_columns; $i++) {
 echo $fld[$i]->value . "\t";
 }
 echo "\n";
 $rowcount++;            // increments rowcount
 $rs->MoveNext();
 }
 
 $rs->Close();
 $conn->Close();
 
 $rs->Release();
 $conn->Release();
 
 $rs = null;
 $conn = null;
 
 ?>
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