[PHP] PHP5 COM get/set property trouble
Hi, I'm having difficulty trying to use the com extension in php5.
Here's the asp equivalent of what I'm trying to do.
Set comobj = Server.CreateObject("MyComlib.ComLib")
comobj.FieldValue = "somedata"
myval = comobj.Property("Record")
comobj.Property("Record") = "otherdata"
My php code looks like this:
$comobj = &new COM('MyComlib.ComLib'); // Works
$comobj->FieldValue = "somedata"; // Works
$myval = $comobj->Property("Record");// Kind of
Works.throws an exception if the value doesn't exist
$comobj->Property("Record") = "otherdata"; // Doesn't Work
I'm able to initialize the object and assign the FieldValue property
some data. The last line however doesn't work and instead gives me:
PHP Fatal error: Can't use method return value in write context
It makes sense to me why that wouldn't work in php, but for the life of
me I can't figure out what would make it work. I've tried with both the
latest beta and the latest snaps release of php5 with the same results.
I can't find any bug reports or mention of this happening to anyone, is
this something that maybe just can't be done in php?
Thanks,
--Dan--
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Re: [PHP] PHP5 COM get/set property trouble
$comobj = &new COM('MyComlib.ComLib'); // Works
$comobj->FieldValue = "somedata"; // Works
$myval = $comobj->Property("Record");// Kind of
Works.throws an exception if the value doesn't exist
$comobj->Property("Record") = "otherdata"; // Doesn't Work
I'm able to initialize the object and assign the FieldValue property
some data. The last line however doesn't work and instead gives me:
PHP Fatal error: Can't use method return value in write context
Well, I was about to give up when I noticed the pecl extension php_perl.
It turns out perl has a method to set properties that take parameters. I
was able to successfully compile and install the extension and use the
Perl() object to do work on the com objects that had properties like
that. If anyone has any information about whetether setting properties
with arguments is possible with strictly php or if that's a feature
expected to be implemented I would still very much like to know.
Thanks,
--Dan--
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Re: [PHP] compress data before inserting into mysql record?
Christian Calloway wrote: I had a small question concerning how MySQL stores text and longtext fields. Long story short, I have to store a large amount of "textual" data, and was wondering if I should compress said data and then store it in the db, or does MySQL already concern itself with compression (which would make it pointless to pre-compress). Thank you As far as I know MySQL doesn't do any compression on any fields. If this is a static unchanging set of data mysql does allow you to compress entire tables with the myisampack command but the table become read-only. As of MySQL version 4.1.1 you can use the functions COMPRESS() and UNCOMPRESS() in an sql query if the server was compiled with zlib (it will return null if it wasn't). Other than that you would have to compress the data yourself using php functions before inserting it. You would want to store data in a BLOB/LONGBLOB column either way though since it is now binary data. --Dan-- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
