Kapitel 52 . PHP and COM

1. I have built a DLL to calculate something. Is there any way to run this DLL under PHP ?
2. What does 'Unsupported variant type: xxxx (0xxxxx)' mean ?
3. Is it possible manipulate visual objects in PHP ?
4. Can I store a COM object in a session ?
5. How can I trap COM errors ?
6. Can I generate DLL files from PHP scripts like i can in Perl ?
7. What does 'Unable to obtain IDispatch interface for CLSID {xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx}' mean ?
8. How can I run COM object from remote server ?
9. I get 'DCOM is disabled in C:\path...\scriptname.php on line 6', what can I do ?
10. Is it possible to load/manipulate an ActiveX object in a page with PHP ?
11. Is it possible to get a running instance of a component ?
12. Is there a way to handle an event sent from COM object ?
13. I'm having problems when trying to invoke a method of a COM object which exposes more than one interface. What can I do ?
14. So PHP works with COM, how about COM+ ?
15. If PHP can manipulate COM objects, can we imagine to use MTS to manage components resources, in conjunction with PHP ?

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