Hello Michelle, this worked on my test system ..
win2k sp2, apache 1.2.34 php 4.2.2 dsig Monday, September 2, 2002, 10:03:50 AM, you wrote: M> I am new to COM and tried an example today (See bottom of post) M> When I execute the code, I get is an error message and if I look in the Task M> Manager, there is a WINWORD.EXE process running, which I can't end. Every M> time I reload the page, a new winword is started... M> How should PHP.ini be set for me to use COM Objects? M> --------------------------------- M> Error message: M> Warning: Unable to obtain IDispatch interface for CLSID M> {000209FF-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}: The message filter indicated that M> the application is busy. in d:\inetpub\wwwroot\incmill\ver2\readfile.php on M> line 2 M> Unable to instantiate word M> Setup: M> Windows 2000 Professional M> PHP 4.2.1 M> Office 2000 M> PHP.ini M> COM values: M> Directive, Local Value, Master Value M> com.allow_dcom, Off, Off M> com.autoregister_casesensitive, On, On M> com.autoregister_typelib, Off, Off M> com.autoregister_verbose, Off, Off M> com.typelib_file, no value, no value M> Code: M> $word = new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to instantiate Word"); M> print "Loaded Word, version {$word->Version}<BR>"; $word->>Visible = 1; $word->>Documents->Add(); $word->>Selection->TypeText("This is a test..."); $word->>Documents[1]->SaveAs("Useless test.doc"); $word->>Quit(); -- DSig ````` David Tod Sigafoos ( O O ) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______oOOo__( )__oOOo_______ Using 'The Bat' 1.61 Using 'OS' Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php