PHP, COM, Apache, Windows 2000 Professional

psmshankar

hi
using VB, i developed a COMTest.dll that contains a class by name "clsTest". I put this dll in to my server running win 2000 professional, apache 1.3, php 4..3.1
I registered that the dll using "regsvr32". Fine.

I want to use this dll in my php program. so tested it with

$objTest = new COM("COMTest.clsTest") or die("Unable to instantiate clsTest component");

when i run this, a small pop-up window comes up with following error:

php.exe has generated errors..........

etc..
by saying, the page also shows error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request

All the normal php programs are working fine...only when i use COM its shoeing problem...i think it could not able to instantiate??
the COM settings in my php.ini file is

[com]
; path to a file containing GUIDs, IIDs or filenames of files with TypeLibs
;com.typelib_file =
; allow Distributed-COM calls
com.allow_dcom = true
; autoregister constants of a components typlib on com_load()
com.autoregister_typelib = true
; register constants casesensitive
com.autoregister_casesensitive = false
; show warnings on duplicate constat registrations
com.autoregister_verbose = true

to check whether my registered dll is working fine, i used the same dll in visual basic program in the server itself and it worked fine..

do i need to set anything... i am using win2k professional...
please help me out...

psmshankar

my clsDevice class Contains following properties
1.DeviceStatus
2.ErrorNumber
3.ErrorDesc

and the following function:
1.CheckDeviceStatus

<?php 
$objTest = new COM("COMTest.clsTest") or die("Unable to instantiate clsTest component"); 

$objTest->CheckDeviceStatus(); 
$DevStatus = $objTest->DeviceStatus; 
if($DevStatus==0) 
{ 
echo "The Nokia Card Phone has been removed.<br>"; 
echo "Cannot continue operation."; 
} 
unset($objTest); 
?>

still it returns the value 0 for the DevStatus

<?php 
$DevStatus = $objTest->DeviceStatus 
?>

meaning that no hardware found...
but i have plugged in the nokia hardware and its working fine.. in VB i get the DevStatus value as 1, which means it found the hardware...

Do i need to do any setting for the COM classes (or dll permission some thing like that ) so that the PHP can get correct values... even here i wonder as the PHP successfully able to instantiate the class.. but getting the wrong values from the property...
i really donno...not able to move up...

psmshankar

oh my god... i just copied the server vb program into the application server(running win2k) and started the debugger... i run the php sample file and to the surprise, i get the Devstatus value as 1 in the vb dll(when i step into each statement F8) and php gets the correct value and prints nokia found..

but if i don't run the debugger and just run the php script in the browser it shows DevStatus Value 0 and nokia NOT found...
how come???? :mad: 😕 :rolleyes: