COM on the Cleint Side?

[andesa]

Hello,

I am working with COM (and enjoying it very much since I have got it working).

I am trying to use COM to produce a Word doc on the client machine. However, when

$word = new COM(Word.Application);

gets called, it instantiates Word on the SERVER. I want it instantiated on the CLEINT.

Is there a trick to this I am missing?

I thought about creating the doc, saving it and then opening it from disk which would force a client instance of Word but that's not really what I want to do.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Andesa

[diego25]

If you want to do something on the client side, then forget about PHP. PHP runs on the server, as you've noticed, so it's impossible for PHP to accomplish what you want. Check into JavaScript, JScript, VBScript, etc. They all run on the client, but I don't know if they support COM (Pretty sure JavaScript wont, maybe VBS).

Diego