<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >com_invoke</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_get" HREF="function.com-get.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="com_isenum" HREF="function.com-isenum.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="function.com-get.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-isenum.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.com-invoke" ></A >com_invoke</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN11350" ></A ><P > (PHP 3>= 3.0.3)</P >com_invoke -- Calls a COM component's method. </DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN11353" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >mixed <B CLASS="methodname" >com_invoke</B > ( resource com_object, string function_name [, mixed function parameters, ...])<BR ></BR ><P > <B CLASS="function" >com_invoke()</B > invokes a method of the COM component referenced by <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >com_object</I ></TT >. Returns <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT > on error, returns the <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >function_name</I ></TT >'s return value on success. </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="function.com-get.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-isenum.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >com_get</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_isenum</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >