Kai, I've moved this to the Windows list because someone else here might be able to add something.
I'm afaid I didn't have to adjust anything within the PHP ini or anything - for me it worked pretty much "out of the box". With regards the registry - in order to check that you are using the appropriate application id - simply open up regedit and search for the name of the identifier you are using - if it's going to be used as a COM identifier - it has to be in there somewhere. Finding out what that identifier is though (if you don't already know it) ... is another matter ... the easiest way (I think) ... is to use "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT" in the registry ... browse through that list and look to see if there is something appropriate. In your case - for Media Player - I found "Mediaplayer.mediaplayer" in my Windows 2000 server registry. It might be the one - but I haven't tried that to see whether it works. Basically - if you don't have documentation on the functions contained within a COM object - you are a little shafted ... because it's going to be very hard to know what functions to access and how. Luckily - in my case - the application I interface with has full COM documentation. Sorry I can't be of more assistance. Michael. -----Original Message----- From: kai [mailto:kai_flash@;hotmail.com] Sent: 14 November 2002 19:05 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] runing com Hi Michael, thanks for your reply. > Firstly - that error would suggest to me that Word is not installed on your > machine. Thats true thats why i've been trying to start other applications like wordpad, just to see some funktionality. >... try looking it up in the registry to confirm the registration > for COM exists. Maybe you can give me a little hint on that. I've been creating some com components in vb some time ago, but as I remember I had to register them with regsvr.exe but that was for dll's and stuff. But hey I don't know exactly what you are suggesting, please help. > Second ... why do you want to run media player to play a wave file on the > server? I would have thought you'd want to activate the script on the client No, what I am trying to do is, if someone I know activates a button on my site, a sound file will play on my server, which is locate in my kitchen, to catch my attention. Further more I'd like to control outlook for different tasks. > Another good idea is to check over the event viewer on the server - there > are sometime some very revealing errors in there. I've tried that, but did not see any entries related to my problem. If your com code is running fine, maybe you can remember if you have some special settings in your php.ini, appache or win2k settings. Any suggestion is welcome. Thank you very much KAi "Michael Hazelden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:C1260EE72F22C44F833D033A17524AD702A4D159@;lhoexc1... > I've been having some fun with COM myself recently ... so I can suggest a > couple of things ... > > Firstly - that error would suggest to me that Word is not installed on your > machine. Remember - in order to interface with an app - it has to be there. > If it is ... try looking it up in the registry to confirm the registration > for COM exists. > > Second ... why do you want to run media player to play a wave file on the > server? I would have thought you'd want to activate the script on the client > ... > > Another good idea is to check over the event viewer on the server - there > are sometime some very revealing errors in there. > > Cheers, > > Michael. > > -----Original Message----- > From: kai [mailto:kai_flash@;hotmail.com] > Sent: 14 November 2002 07:20 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PHP] runing com > > > hi guy's I have a problem running com+ code and would appreciate any help. > > What I like to do is have the mediaplayer run a wave file triggert from php > via com. > but I can not run any example code from the help without errors. > > > this code is from a the help and should work but doesn't on my mashine: > > // starting word > $word = new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to instanciate Word"); > print "Loaded Word, version {$word->Version}\n"; > > file://bring it to front > $word->Visible = 1; > file://open an empty document > $word->Documents->Add(); > file://do some weird stuff > $word->Selection->TypeText("This is a test..."); > $word->Documents[1]->SaveAs("Useless test.doc"); > file://closing word > $word->Quit(); > file://free the object > $word->Release(); > $word = null; > > This is all very basic code and should run. > I do not have word so I tried with other apps. like wordpad or painbrush > but allways recieve this error: > > Warning: Invalid ProgID, GUID string, or Moniker: Invalid syntax in > D:\Apache\htdocs\ring.php on line 7 > Unable to instanciate .......... > > Now I tried to give the access right's on the particular apps in dcomcnfg > and > also edited php.ini to > allow Distributed-COM calls > com.allow_dcom = true > > > Does anybody can give me a run down on what I have to do exactly to get this > code running for > let's say wordpad. > > Thank you > > KAi > > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > This message has been checked for all known viruses by the > MessageLabs Virus Control Centre. > > This message has been checked for all known viruses by the MessageLabs Virus Control Centre. > > > ********************************************************************* > > Notice: This email is confidential and may contain copyright material of Ocado Limited (the "Company"). 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