[PHP-WIN] Comunication between php and a window service

Is there a way to comunicate between php and a window service? (by Sockets?) -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP-WIN] COM, DLL

I have this problem. I am running a php application , that calls a dll, through COM ($obj=new COM("foo.dll"), and this works fine. My problem is that each time i call from a php a function from this dll, the dll initialiazes again, which happens to be very time consuming because it reads a lot of