I am using 4.0.6.
I am using variant and it seems to be working.
Thanks For your help!
K
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Eynon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Josh Seward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Karen Siefken"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 10:59 AM
Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] Dlls
> I have done this... with some level of pain. This may be overkill for
some
> of you, but these are the tips I wish I had when I started this.
>
> First, I am a UNIX person, so having to do this in Windows was probably
> harder for me than for the rest of you.
>
> Since everything in PHP is a variant, it seemed to make the most sense to
> accomplish this by converting my dll to a com obj (that way I got ASP, VB,
> etc... for free). For a UNIX person, this work totally sucks... but you
can
> use the MS IDE to do most of the work for you. Once you do that, you can
> instantiate a new com obj in the php code and call member functions.
>
> ex.
>
> $onthComServer=new COM("OnthDB.SessionMgr");
> $iSessID = $onthComServer->CreateSession();
>
> From here you simply have to remember to convert the variant types to
normal
> C++ types in your C++ code. The only real gotcha came when I tried to
send
> in vars by ref... to do this you must first declare the vars in php to be
> reference vars before you use them.
>
> ex.
>
> iCellType=new Variant("0",VT_INT|VT_BYREF); // for int...
> sCellVal=new Variant("GonzoBreath",VT_BSTR|VT_BYREF); // for string
>
> Other areas of frustration come when trying to debug through to your dll
> while running php. The easiest way I have found is to use the PHP SAPI
> modules (W2k and IIS with ISAPI is what I am using). Run your app once
> without debugging, and then attach your debugger to the inetinfo process,
> create your breakpoints, and run again.
>
> You can debug with CGI, but that will involve adding a wait statement /
> infinite loop to your dll that will give you time to attach a debugger.
>
> Hopefully this helps.
>
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Seward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 4:53 PM
> To: Karen Siefken; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Dlls
>
>
> I am also looking for an answer to this question. I am using the fallowing
> JavaScript to call the .dll file.
>
> <script language="JavaScript"
src="http://server/Scripts/convert.dll?convert
>
src=C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\art\\$id.$type&dest=C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\movies\\$id">
> </script>
>
> Is there a way to call this for use in php?
>
> I believe this is a question of the same nature.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karen Siefken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 1:05 PM
> Subject: [PHP-WIN] Dlls
>
>
> Can you use user defined dlls in php? If so does anyone know where I can
> find info on how to create a dll to use in PHP?
>
> K
>
>
>
>
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