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Posted by Jay Blanchard on 10/11/58 11:29
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The DLL was built specifically with a COM interface which I accessed using
the PHP COM functions (as I'm sure you've seen already). The DLL authors had
to rejig their original code a little, but it was a far
less painful process than compiling the DLL into PHP. However for the next
revision we are likely to move the DLL code into the .NET framework, build a
SOAP interface to it (C#) and let PHP talk to it that way. Although that's
more of a political decision than a technical one, I'm just mentioning it
incase the idea is useful for you.
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Unfortunately I may not be able to have the DLL re-built with the COM
interface. It is an older DLL containing engineering functions and it is
huge. The real dingle here is that I only need to access some of the
functionality of the DLL. I also do not want to compile it into PHP as it
(the DLL) is a moving target. This may be one of those projects where I say,
"Give me some more development folks and we'll get it done right." otherwise
we may not be able to do the project as it exists.
I am researching the requirements for adding the COM interface now.
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