php-windows Digest 25 May 2009 07:08:51 -0000 Issue 3629
Topics (messages 29350 through 29354):
Re: vbscript not running in php but running as a vbs file
29350 by: Sascha Meyer
29351 by: Sascha Meyer
29352 by: Geoff Lane
29353 by: Rui
Re: Excel OLE Automation using COM: file access problem
29354 by: Faubry, Samuel
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Hi Rui,
Rui wrote:
hi
im having a problem with a vbscript that sends mail .
first of all, why do you try to send a mail through the use of a vbs
file? Consider switching to php's mail function
(http://www.php.net/mail), with your preferred mail server set up in
php.ini (or you can dynamically switch the server settings by using
ini_set()).
Let's get back to your initial problem:
if you are using Microsoft IIS, have a look at your webserver's
application event log. If the web server had any problems executing the
script (I bet on IUSR permissions problems), you'll have a good chance
to find the error here (if error reporting was set up to use syslog).
Otherwise enable error reporting before calling the vbs script from PHP:
[CODE]
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set ("display_errors", "1");
[/CODE]
Could you post the code of your php script calling the vbscript file?
That'll help a lot!
Regards, Sascha
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Doh!
Now I found the error:
if i add this to a php page with the tags
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBScript">
......
</SCRIPT>
these lines will not be rendered by the server, the will directly be
send to the browser, so the browser will try to execute this part of
code (and only IE will process vbscript tags).
If you want the server to process the code, switch to:
> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBScript" RUNAT="Server">
> ......
> </SCRIPT>
but to be honest, I don't know if these lines will be parsed if they are
part of a php script file (which will be handled by php-cgi.exe); if
they were part of an asp script file, they will likely work.
Regards,
Sascha
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On Saturday, May 23, 2009, Sascha Meyer wrote:
> Doh!
> Now I found the error:
>> if i add this to a php page with the tags
>> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBScript">
>> ......
>> </SCRIPT>
> these lines will not be rendered by the server, the will directly be
> send to the browser, so the browser will try to execute this part of
> code (and only IE will process vbscript tags).
> If you want the server to process the code, switch to:
> > <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBScript" RUNAT="Server">
> > ......
> > </SCRIPT>
> but to be honest, I don't know if these lines will be parsed if they are
> part of a php script file (which will be handled by php-cgi.exe); if
> they were part of an asp script file, they will likely work.
I suspect that the OP wants the script to run on the client. However,
a long, long time ago Microsoft recognised the security implications
of permitting the calling of objects in client-side scripts and just
about put a stop to it. FWIW, I fell foul of this in 1996/97 when the
parts of a web application I'd written to use Word and Excel
client-side to format data suddenly stopped working.
--
Geoff
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hi all
thks all for the pointers .
sascha for sure you are a PHP Most Value Professional :)
i was not aware that i could set the values dynamically with init_set
....that is way i didnt go for the php mail function as i didnt want to be
dependant on php configuration .
i will try both vbs and phpmail to keep my options open and of course just
for the fun of it .
thks again
rgds
rui
"Sascha Meyer" <harlequ...@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:4a17c09f.5010...@gmx.de...
Doh!
Now I found the error:
if i add this to a php page with the tags
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBScript">
......
</SCRIPT>
these lines will not be rendered by the server, the will directly be send
to the browser, so the browser will try to execute this part of code (and
only IE will process vbscript tags).
If you want the server to process the code, switch to:
> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBScript" RUNAT="Server">
> ......
> </SCRIPT>
but to be honest, I don't know if these lines will be parsed if they are
part of a php script file (which will be handled by php-cgi.exe); if they
were part of an asp script file, they will likely work.
Regards,
Sascha
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Hi Richard,
Sorry for not replying earlier, I've had other duties to take over.
Can you tell me from where you took the excerpts of documentation you
sent me in your last e-mail ? Because they are consistent with the
behaviour I observe, but not with the documentation on MSDN, so
apparently your documentation is more reliable.
Thanks,
Samuel
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Quadling [mailto:rquadl...@googlemail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 5:28 PM
> To: Faubry, Samuel
> Cc: php-wind...@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Excel OLE Automation using COM: file
> access problem
>
> 2009/5/19 Faubry, Samuel <samuel.fau...@parexel.com>:
> >> From: Richard Quadling
> >> 2009/5/18 Faubry, Samuel <samuel.fau...@parexel.com>:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I am interfacing PHP and Excel to build a web-based
> >> reporting tool. I am running IIS6.0 with PHP 5.2.5 on
> Windows Server
> >> 2003, with Office 2003 installed.
> >> >
> >> > For testing purpose, I wrote a script that just connects to
> >> Excel, opens a workbook, saves it under another name and
> closes Excel:
> >> >
> >> > $if_path = 'C:\if_test.xls';
> >> > $of_path = 'C:\of_test.xls';
> >> >
> >> > echo date('H:i:s') . " Launch Excel application \n"; $excelApp =
> >> > new COM("Excel.Application") or die("Cannot
> >> create an Excel object");
> >> > echo date('H:i:s') . " Loaded Excel, version
> >> {$excelApp->Version}\n";
> >> >
> >> > echo date('H:i:s') . " Open workbook at path $if_path\n";
> >> > $excelApp->Workbooks->Open($if_path, 2);
> >> >
> >> > echo date('H:i:s') . " Save changes to $of_path\n";
> >> > $excelApp->Workbooks[1]->SaveAs($of_path);
> >> >
> >> > echo date('H:i:s') . " Close Excel\n"; $excelApp->Quit();
> >> >
> >> > When I open the page in Internet Explorer, if I put
> >> "http://localhost/test.php";, everything works fine, but if I put
> >> "http://my_server_name.domain.int/test.php";, the script is blocked
> >> when trying to open the file, which means I can't access
> the script
> >> elsewhere than on the server.
> >> >
> >> > By "blocked", I mean no error is shown, but it doesn't
> >> react, and the excel.exe task keeps running and keeps the
> file locked.
> >> >
> >> > My guess is that Excel is run with different permissions in
> >> the second case, so it cannot access the file, but it might be
> >> completely something else...
> >> >
> >> > Does someone have any experience in that matter ?
> >> >
> >> > Thank you very much !
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >> If it is permissions, TEMPORARILY, allow IIS to interact with the
> >> desktop. Hopefully you can RDP to the server as the
> console and see
> >> what error message pops up (if any).
> >>
> >> As PHP and excel run on the server, you will need to see
> the server
> >> for any errors that can be displayed in this regard.
> >>
> >> I don't think you'll be able to do this on server 2008 as the
> >> "console" is no longer displayed (session 0 is purely for internal
> >> use only - services and the like - and no display is allowed).
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> -----
> >> Richard Quadling
> >> Zend Certified Engineer :
> >> http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731
> >> "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!"
> >>
> >
> > Hi, thanks for your reply, Richard.
> >
> > I RDP'd to the server console, but no error pops up. I
> allowed IIS to
> > interact with the desktop, but I didn't change anything.
> >
> > I might have found the problem: the file I am trying to open has
> > external links. With a "normal" file it works fine whatever
> way I run
> > the script.
> >
> > That's why I used the second argument (UpdateLinks) in the
> Open call
> > documented here (2 means "Never update links for this workbook on
> > opening"):
> >
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.office.interop.excel
> > .w
> > orkbooks.open(office.11).aspx
> >
> > Apparently, the argument I passed (2 of PHP type integer)
> is invalid.
> > Let me explain why I think so:
> > In the following, I am running everything from
> > http://localhost/test.php, which allows user interaction.
> > If I put $excelApp->Visible = 0 and use 2 as the
> UpdateLinks argument
> > to Open, everything runs fine without any interaction with the user.
> > If I put $excelApp->Visible = 1 and use 2 as the
> UpdateLinks argument
> > to Open, Excel shows up and tells me the links could not be
> updated,
> > which means it tried to update it, which is NOT the
> expected behaviour!
> > The values 1, 2 and 3 all give the same result, which is
> contradictory
> > with the documentation (1 is "ask", 2 is "do not update"
> and 3 is "do
> > update").
> > If I put 0, Excel shows up and closes without any
> interaction, but 0
> > is not an authorised value according to the documentation.
> > Any other value crashes the script.
> > If I don't specify this argument, Excel shows up and asks
> me if I want
> > to update, which is the expected behaviour.
> >
> > According to the documentation, this UpdateLinks argument is an
> > Object, maybe that's where the problem lies? If so, how can
> I create
> > the object to be passed as an argument to Open?
> >
> > By the way, just out of curiosity, I tried to use the value
> 0 and run
> > the script from a client computer, but it is still blocked
> in the way
> > described above.
> >
> > Thanks for your help !
> >
>
> A couple of things (taken as snippets from the online help
> and looking through the type library) ...
>
> AskToUpdateLinks Property
> See AlsoApplies ToExampleSpecificsTrue if Microsoft Excel
> asks the user to update links when opening files with links.
> False if links are automatically updated with no dialog box.
> Read/write Boolean.
>
> Example
> This example sets Microsoft Excel to ask the user to update
> links whenever a file that contains links is opened.
>
> Application.AskToUpdateLinks = True
>
>
>
> Do you have any macros as part of the file you open? If they
> present dialogs, maybe they need to be suppressed also?
>
> Application.DisplayAlerts = False
> Workbooks("BOOK1.XLS").Close
> Application.DisplayAlerts = True
>
>
>
> Application.Workbooks.Open
>
> UpdateLinks Optional Variant. Specifies the way links in the file
> are updated. If this argument is omitted, the user is
> prompted to specify how links will be updated. Otherwise,
> this argument is one of the values listed in the following table.
>
> Value Meaning
> 0 Doesn't update any references
> 1 Updates external references but not remote references
> 2 Updates remote references but not external references
> 3 Updates both remote and external references
>
>
> Hmm..
>
> Is it possible for you to run the PHP script from the command
> line on the server using the same credentials used by IIS (or
> the app pool used). I'm still not 100% uptodate with IIS+PHP
> security using FastCGI. If you can get the script running,
> make sure you turn on visibility within/for Excel so you can
> see what is happening.
>
> --
> -----
> Richard Quadling
> Zend Certified Engineer :
> http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731
> "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!"
>
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