I had some problems with a third-party Word-controlling code that is somewhat similar to Richard's example. (Word 2007 SP1, XP SP2.) Rewrote some parts according to that example, no luck. Error messages from Word were crazy:
"Bad parameter" -- it didn't like wdGoToBookmark but was ok with its numeric equivalent -1;
"Call to undefined method variant::SaveAs()" -- the same with Save() that was suitable in my case, so no options were remaining.
But then I ran the example via php.exe in the command line, and it worked! Eventually it turned out that Apache service must be run as some real user instead of SYSTEM.
com_load_typelib
(PHP 4 >= 4.1.0, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
com_load_typelib — Carica una Typelib
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tomas dot burba at softneta dot lt ¶
12 years ago
RQuadling at GMail dot com ¶
16 years ago
Some libraries load other libraries as part of their functionality. For example Crystal Reports Object Factory uses the CreateObject() method to create an instance of a Crystal Design RunTime Application. If you want to use constants defined in the newly loaded library, you will need to manually register the library - even with com.autoregister_typelib set to true.
<?php
echo 'com.autoregister_typelib = ', ini_get('com.autoregister_typelib'), PHP_EOL;
$o_CrObjectFactory = New COM('CrystalReports11.ObjectFactory.1');
$o_CrApplication = $o_CrObjectFactory->CreateObject("CrystalDesignRunTime.Application");
echo 'Will not be defined : ', crOpenReportByDefault, PHP_EOL;
com_load_typelib('CrystalDesignRunTime.Application');
echo 'Will now be defined : ', crOpenReportByDefault, PHP_EOL;
?>
outputs ...
com.autoregister_typelib = 1
Will not be defined :
Notice: Use of undefined constant crOpenReportByDefault - assumed 'crOpenReportByDefault' in C:\refl.php on line 8
crOpenReportByDefault
Will now be defined : 0
Anonymous ¶
20 years ago
In case any of you were wondering what com_load_typelib actually DOES, I have found that it loads constants\enums that the COM obeject has defined. The example below is using the Nero COM object (from Nero Burning rom, version 6+). The Nero object defines a bunch of constants, but they can not be used as PHP constants unless you use the mentioned function. So the example below will work just fine:
<?php
$aNero = new COM("Nero.Nero") or die ("Nero didn't load, too bad");
com_load_typelib("Nero.Nero");
$aNero->GetDrives(NERO_MEDIA_CD);
?>
But this one will not, since PHP will return a message saying that the constant is undefined:
<?php
$aNero = new COM("Nero.Nero") or die ("Nero didn't load, too bad");
$aNero->GetDrives(NERO_MEDIA_CD);
?>
This one took me a while to figure out, hope it helps.
Also, check out http://www.php.net/manual/en/faq.com.php to find out how to get COM events working in PHP.
ojpp at webdevfm dot com ¶
20 years ago
Hello PHP community, I want to help in a problem I found in this COM built-in function: com_load_typelib(), when I executed it in order to open a COM Server process (for example: Word, Excel, etc.) I was in trouble to release the object from memory, I figured it out, this is the solution:
Change a configuration in the php.ini:
; autoregister constants of a components typlib on com_load()
com.autoregister_typelib = true
When com.autoregister_typelib directive is true, PHP parser manage the COM server type library, I hope it helps.
richard dot quadling at carval dot co dot uk ¶
21 years ago
<?php
// Some servers may have an auto timeout, so take as long as you want.
set_time_limit(0);
// Show all errors, warnings and notices whilst developing.
error_reporting(E_ALL);
// Used as a placeholder in certain COM functions where no parameter is required.
$empty = new VARIANT();
// Load the appropriate type library.
com_load_typelib('Word.Application');
// Create an object to use.
$word = new COM('word.application') or die('Unable to load Word');
print "Loaded Word, version {$word->Version}\n";
// Open a new document with bookmarks of YourName and YourAge.
$word->Documents->Open('C:/Unfilled.DOC');
// Fill in the information from the form.
$word->Selection->GoTo(wdGoToBookmark,$empty,$empty,'YourName'); // Note use of wdGoToBookmark, from the typelibrary and the use of $empty.
$word->Selection->TypeText($_GET['YourName']);
$word->Selection->GoTo(wdGoToBookmark,$empty,$empty,'YourAge');
$word->Selection->TypeText($_GET['YourAge']);
// Save it, close word and finish.
$word->Documents[1]->SaveAs("C:/{$_GET['YourName']}.doc");
$word->Quit();
$word->Release();
$word = null;
print "Word closed.\n";
?>
The example document is ...
Hello [Bookmark of YourName], you are [Bookmark of YourAge] years old.
and it would be called ...
word.php?YourName=Richard%20Quadling&YourAge=35
Regards,
Richard.
