Honestly, I still don't get you.
How can the client's Word not open if the script didn't make it open with
COM.
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From: Hoover, Josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 'Pierre-Yves Lemaire' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, 11 April, 2001 10:31 PM
Subject: RE: [PHP] Are calling COM applications a trojan?
> >And, I read a book saying that you can open a word document on the client
> >side and insert words in it.
>
> Are you sure this was done on the client side and not on the server side?
> Here is a common example used to show a simple use of COM and PHP:
>
> $word=new COM("word.application") or die("Cannot start word for you");
> print "Loaded word version ($word->Version)\n";
> $word-visible =1 ;
> $word->Documents->Add();
> $word->Selection->Typetext("Dit is een test");
> $word->Documents[1]->SaveAs("burb ofzo.doc");
> $word->Quit();
>
> This does not work on the client. PHP is on the server side. COM is used
> to access local objects, not remote ones. So, in the example, PHP is
using
> word on the server and opening a document and saving it on the server.
This
> has nothing to do with a client. The use of COM and PHP would mainly be
for
> PHP to access COM objects that a business has currently in other
> applications. Many times it would be nice for PHP to utilize objects
> already written, and in the Windows world right now those objects are
> normally accessible via COM if they're accessible at all.
>
> Josh Hoover
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