PHP and COM

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to call functionality from an executable (.exe) file from php. To make that work, I built a com shell around the application and while that seems to work fine when I call it from another executable, php times out when trying to create the com object.

[code=php]$MyApp = new COM(‘MyApplication.MyAppIntf’);
$Data = $MyApp->GetPersonData(‘JohnSmith’);
echo $Data;[/code]

Maybe I’m calling it wrong from php, or maybe you have a better idea. But it needs a form (so it can’t be a dll) and it has to be out-of-process (meaning only one instance of the application must be running at any given time and multiple clients can use it).

Any ideas?

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