>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
KnowledgeStorm, Inc.
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