<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >VARIANT</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" HREF="class.com.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="com_addref" HREF="function.com-addref.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="class.com.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.com-addref.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="class.variant" ></A >VARIANT</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN11254" ></A ><P > (no version information, might be only in CVS)</P >VARIANT -- VARIANT class</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsynopsisdiv" ><A NAME="AEN11257" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="synopsis" >$vVar = new VARIANT($var)</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="class.variant.class" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P > A simple container to wrap variables into VARIANT structures. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="class.variant.constructor" ></A ><H2 >Methods</H2 >string <B CLASS="methodname" >VARIANT::VARIANT</B > ( [mixed value [, int type [, int codepage]]])<BR ></BR ><P > VARIANT class constructor. Parameters: <P ></P ><DIV CLASS="variablelist" ><DL ><DT >value</DT ><DD ><P > initial value. if omitted an VT_EMPTY object is created. </P ></DD ><DT >type</DT ><DD ><P > specifies the content type of the VARIANT object. Possible values are <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >VT_UI1</B ></TT >, <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >VT_UI2</B ></TT >, <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >VT_UI4</B ></TT >, <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >VT_I1</B ></TT >, <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >VT_I2</B ></TT >, <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >VT_I4</B ></TT >, <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >VT_R4</B ></TT >, <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >VT_R8</B ></TT >, <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >VT_INT</B ></TT >, <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >VT_UINT</B ></TT >, <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >VT_BOOL</B ></TT >, <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >VT_ERROR</B ></TT >, <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >VT_CY</B ></TT >, <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >VT_DATE</B ></TT >, <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >VT_BSTR</B ></TT >, <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >VT_DECIMAL</B ></TT >, <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >VT_UNKNOWN</B ></TT >, <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >VT_DISPATCH</B ></TT > and <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >VT_VARIANT</B ></TT >. These values are mutual exclusive, but they can be combined with <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >VT_BYREF</B ></TT > to specify being a value. If omitted, the type of <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >value</I ></TT > is used. Consult the msdn library for additional information. </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 ></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="class.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="function.com-addref.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >COM</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" >com_addref</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >