Php/docs/class.com
(PHP 4 >= 4.1.0, PHP 5, PHP 7)
Introduction
The com class allows you to instantiate an OLE compatible COM object and call its methods and access its properties.
Class synopsis
com extends variant {
public __construct
( string $module_name
[, array|string|null $server_name
= NULL
[, int $codepage
= CP_ACP
[, string $typelib
= ""
]]] )
}
Overloaded Methods
The returned object is an overloaded object, which means that PHP does not see any fixed methods as it does with regular classes; instead, any property or method accesses are passed through to COM.
PHP will automatically detect methods that accept parameters by reference, and will automatically convert regular PHP variables to a form that can be passed by reference. This means that you can call the method very naturally; you needn't go to any extra effort in your code.
com examples
Example #1 com example (1)
<?php// starting word$word = new com("word.application") or die("Unable to instantiate 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$word = null;?>
Example #2 com example (2)
<?php$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 = null;$conn = null;?>
Table of Contents
- com::__construct — com class constructor
/* Methods */