COM
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COM -- COM class
Synopsis
| $obj = new COM("server.object") | 
Description
    The COM class provides a framework to integrate (D)COM components into
    your php scripts.
   
Methods
string 
COM::COM ( string module_name [, string server_name [, int codepage]])
    COM class constructor. Parameters:
    
- module_name
- 
      name or class-id of the requested component.
      
- server_name
- 
      name of the DCOM server from which the component should be fetched.
      If NULL, localhost is assumed.
      To allow DCOM com.allow_dcom has to be set to 
      TRUE in php.ini.
      
- codepage
- 
      specifies the codepage that is used to convert php-strings to
      unicode-strings and vice versa. Possible values are
      CP_ACP, CP_MACCP,
      CP_OEMCP, CP_SYMBOL,
      CP_THREAD_ACP, CP_UTF7
      and CP_UTF8.
      
    
| Example 1. COM example (1) | // starting word
$word = new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to instanciate Word");
print "Loaded Word, version {$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->Release();
$word = null; | 
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| Example 2. COM example (2) | $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->Release();
$conn->Release();
$rs = null;
$conn = null; | 
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