[PHP-WIN] Using .Net assemblies with PHP

2011-05-17 Thread Trevor
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 using this instead: http://universalccw.so

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

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 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
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