Posted by Alex on 11/14/07 16:28

"Steve" <no.one@example.com> wrote in message
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> as in, you're a beginner to VB or, a beginner to php?

to COM :) and I havent touched VB since..... Win 3.11. :) I've been coding
in PHP for almost 10 years, but never had to use COM.

> i'd create a component if you need to break this and other com objects
> apart like this.
>
> if you're using vb classic (the crusty old version), there are several
> free and well written libraries that can expose any com object's
> interfaces...including types, params, etc.
>
> if you're using vb.net, use it's reflection capabilities to do the same.
> give your vb app the path to the dll, let it create it, and then go about
> discovering its make-up.
>
> either way, compile it to a com object to make it accessible to php. btw,
> if using vb.net, you don't have to create in php the object being exposed.
> your reflection-enabled com object can not only break-down the interfaces
> for you, but you can also put 'invoke' methods on your object which defers
> to the interface of the child object being exposed to php. make sense?

The object is already compiled. It's from a software vendor. I meant to say
that I have doc with the object, but all the examples of object usage are in
VB, which I have long forgotten. They use lists, for example all around the
place, and I don't remember how to translate this to PHP :)

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