Slides: PHP and COM
25th June 2008 @ 22:29 EDT
updated 25th June 2008 @ 22:31 EDT
updated 25th June 2008 @ 22:31 EDT
This slide deck is from php|works 2004. There's a lot of material in the speaker notes, which I've painstakingly pasted into the comment on the slideshare representation (wouldn't it be cool if it could automatically do that?).
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PHP5 COM - Two Problems
I enjoyed your PHP/COM slideshow and have run into two particularly nasty problems with COM in PHP5 that do not seem to be covered anywhere on the web. Thought you would be the man to pass them by. (1) Running PHP 5.2.6 on Windows 2003 Server with IIS 6 appears to crash when running simple COM commands from the command-line (i.e. php -f file.php). Running the same script via an HTTP request in a browser doesn't. The crash is caught in DEP; (2) I have yet to find a single example on the net of a call to a COM object via PHP5 that uses ByRef parameters. Would be nice to have a working example of this. I'll see if I can get details on the crash and post it as a PHP bug. Again - enjoyed your slide show.