Problem with COM (of course in Win32)

[raldridg]

I setup COM support as specified in the PHP help files. I load my test page, but I get a parsing error, it seems as though the parser doesn't understand new COM()? Anyone know what I can do to fix this? I am using
Apache 2.0.47 and
PHP Version 5.0.0b2-dev.
Is there something special I need to setup in Apache? It seems as though I just needed to change php.ini and change some COM/DCOM options to get it to work?

CONTENTS OF PHP.INI:
[com]
; path to a file containing GUIDs, IIDs or filenames of files with TypeLibs
;com.typelib_file =
; allow Distributed-COM calls
com.allow_dcom = 1
; autoregister constants of a components typlib on com_load()
com.autoregister_typelib = 1
; register constants casesensitive
com.autoregister_casesensitive = 0
; show warnings on duplicate constat registrations
com.autoregister_verbose = 1

CONTENTS OF http://localhost/mycomtest_02.php:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_FUNCTION in F:\Apache2\htdocs\mycomtest_02.php on line 3

<?php
// starting word
$word = new COM("word.application") or die <function.die.html>("Unable to instanciate Word");
print <function.print.html> "Loaded Word, version {$word->Version}\n";

//bring it to front
$word->Visible = 1;

//open an empty document
$word->Documents->Add();

//do some weird stuff
$word->Selection->TypeText("This is a test...");
$word->Documents[1]->SaveAs("Useless test.doc");

//closing word
$word->Quit();

//free the object
$word->Release();
$word = null;
?>

[raldridg]

Um, the error that the webpage displays is not in the php file, I just accidentally pasted it in the wrong place, just visually place the error before where it says the contents of the php file...

DISPLAY IN BROWSER:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_FUNCTION in F:\Apache2\htdocs\mycomtest_02.php on line 3

[raldridg]

copying the simple example from the php help file copied some embedded style flags that I did not notice. So here is the fixed mycomtest_02.php and the new error:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'exception' with message 'Unknown exception' in F:\Apache2\htdocs\mycomtest_02.php:3 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in F:\Apache2\htdocs\mycomtest_02.php on line 3

<?php
// starting word
$word = new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to instanciate Word");
print "Loaded Word, version {$word->Version}\n";

//bring it to front
$word->Visible = 1;

//open an empty document
$word->Documents->Add();

//do some weird stuff
$word->Selection->TypeText("This is a test...");
$word->Documents[1]->SaveAs("Useless test.doc");

//closing word
$word->Quit();

//free the object
$word->Release();
$word = null;
?>