Re: [PHP-WIN] Using .Net assemblies with PHP

2011-05-20 Thread Trevor
On 5/18/2011 5:51 PM, Richard Quadling wrote: Interesting. As I said earlier, I use PHP+COM to talk to Crystal Reports. One of the issues I have is that the COM interface is no longer part of the current version of Crystal. The last one was CR XI Release 2. Newer versions are only supporting .NE

Re: [PHP-WIN] Using .Net assemblies with PHP

2011-05-18 Thread Richard Quadling
On 18 May 2011 17:39, Trevor wrote: > On 5/18/2011 9:42 AM, Trevor wrote: > >>> Btw, which encryption algorithms were you looking for? Using the >>> native PHP versions would be even faster and easier :) >> >> True. Unfortunately, the native ones don't meet my needs. I needed >> something that was

Re: [PHP-WIN] Using .Net assemblies with PHP

2011-05-18 Thread Trevor
On 5/18/2011 9:42 AM, Trevor wrote: Btw, which encryption algorithms were you looking for? Using the native PHP versions would be even faster and easier :) True. Unfortunately, the native ones don't meet my needs. I needed something that was compatible with existing encrypted data that we use

Re: [PHP-WIN] Using .Net assemblies with PHP

2011-05-18 Thread Trevor
On 5/18/2011 2:00 AM, Pierre Joye wrote: On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Trevor wrote: In my testing, I can load a browser page with 1,000 encryption/decryption operations in less than 2 seconds. Since I really only need to do at most a couple at a time (which comes back instantly), I can't r

Re: [PHP-WIN] Using .Net assemblies with PHP

2011-05-18 Thread Pierre Joye
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Trevor wrote: > In my testing, I can load a browser page with 1,000 encryption/decryption > operations in less than 2 seconds. Since I really only need to do at most a > couple at a time (which comes back instantly), I can't really complain about > the performance

Re: [PHP-WIN] Using .Net assemblies with PHP

2011-05-17 Thread Trevor
In my testing, I can load a browser page with 1,000 encryption/decryption operations in less than 2 seconds. Since I really only need to do at most a couple at a time (which comes back instantly), I can't really complain about the performance. And it certainly beats my testing of dotnet (when i

Re: [PHP-WIN] Using .Net assemblies with PHP

2011-05-17 Thread Pierre Joye
hi, Interesting but it is somehow poor in term of performance (not very important in most cases). As a somehow cleaner alternative (COM is such a pain), I use C++/CLI. For example I wrote (early stage but works) an extension for the MS Chart module, you can see it here https://github.com/pierrejo

Re: [PHP-WIN] Using .Net assemblies with PHP

2011-05-17 Thread Trevor
On 5/17/2011 1:44 PM, Richard Quadling wrote: It would be really useful to know what isn't working? I don't use any .NET stuff, but I do use COM to talk to MS Word and Excel as well as Crystal Reports (I generate reports into these different document types all day - well, a process does). From

Re: [PHP-WIN] Using .Net assemblies with PHP

2011-05-17 Thread Richard Quadling
On 17 May 2011 18:42, Trevor wrote: > Just in case anyone else needs to do this, I just spent a frustrating week > figuring out how to make an assembly I created with PowerBuilder.Net work > with PHP. The dotnet class in PHP doesn't work very well, and has apparently > been abandoned. I ended up u