Posted by Csaba Gabor on 07/24/06 15:21

Csaba Gabor wrote:
> If I do not have the indicated Word document open (on my Win XP Pro
> machine with PHP 5.2), the following will open and display it:
>
> <?php
> $path = "c:\\path\\to\\word\\document\\mydoc.doc";
> $doc = new COM($path);
> $doc->Application->visible = true;
> ?>
>
> However, there will be several identical warnings (14 in number)
> associated with line 3 (the new COM line):
>
> Warning: com::com(): Type library constant emptyenum is already defined
> in C:\test.php on line 3
>
> Am I getting lucky that the doc is opened at all (and hence the
> warnings are not bugs), or should this behaviour be reported? This
> type of functionality works fine in vbscript:
>
> Path = "c:\path\to\word\document\mydoc.doc"
> Set doc = CreateObject(Path)
> doc.Application.visible = true
>
> Thanks,
> Csaba Gabor from Vienna
>
> PS. Note that if the doc is already opened, the above scripts fail.

OK, this doesn't have anything to do with the specific document. It
also happens if you just do:
$word = new COM("Word.Application");


Initial indications are that the following will suppress the warnings:

$c_artext = "com.autoregister_typelib";
if ($c_ar_t=ini_get($c_artext)) ini_set($c_artext,0);
....
$word = new COM("Word.Application");
....
if ($c_ar_t) ini_set($c_artext, $c_ar_t);

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