<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >COM</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="COM support functions for Windows" HREF="ref.com.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="COM support functions for Windows" HREF="ref.com.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="VARIANT" HREF="class.variant.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="ref.com.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="class.variant.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="class.com" ></A >COM</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN11196" ></A ><P > (no version information, might be only in CVS)</P >COM -- COM class</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsynopsisdiv" ><A NAME="AEN11199" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="synopsis" >$obj = new COM("server.object")</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="class.com.class" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P > The COM class provides a framework to integrate (D)COM components into your php scripts. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="class.com.constructor" ></A ><H2 >Methods</H2 >string <B CLASS="methodname" >COM::COM</B > ( string module_name [, string server_name [, int codepage]])<BR ></BR ><P > COM class constructor. Parameters: <P ></P ><DIV CLASS="variablelist" ><DL ><DT >module_name</DT ><DD ><P > name or class-id of the requested component. </P ></DD ><DT >server_name</DT ><DD ><P > name of the DCOM server from which the component should be fetched. If <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >NULL</B ></TT >, <TT CLASS="literal" >localhost</TT > is assumed. To allow DCOM <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >com.allow_dcom</B ></TT > has to be set to <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >TRUE</B ></TT > in <TT CLASS="filename" >php.ini</TT >. </P ></DD ><DT >codepage</DT ><DD ><P > specifies the codepage that is used to convert php-strings to unicode-strings and vice versa. Possible values are <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >CP_ACP</B ></TT >, <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >CP_MACCP</B ></TT >, <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >CP_OEMCP</B ></TT >, <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >CP_SYMBOL</B ></TT >, <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >CP_THREAD_ACP</B ></TT >, <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >CP_UTF7</B ></TT > and <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >CP_UTF8</B ></TT >. </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV > </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="example.com1" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. COM example (1)</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="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(); $word = null;</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="example.com2" ></A ><P ><B >Example 2. COM example (2)</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" >$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;</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.com.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="class.variant.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >COM support functions for Windows</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.com.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >VARIANT</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >