Does anyone have any tuts on COM based programming with php? does com allow you to use pre-written dll's in your scripts??
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.com.php
If you don't already have experience with COM and DLLs you should read up on a phenomenom known as "DLL Hell". Php isn't the problem, it's Microsoft's half-baked implementations:
http://www.developerfusion.com/show/1719/9/