creating emails through Outlook with PHP5

smartsley

I'm trying to use PHP5 to create new OUtlook email messages, add some recipients, subject, and message in body, and maybe attach a file. Has anyone had any success with this?

I found one person from Bulgaria that has some code for this.. However, it doesn't seem to work. I've pasted it below to see if you can get it to work..

$objApp = new COM("Outlook.Application") or die("Unable to instantiate Outlook");;
$myItem = $objApp->CreateItem(olMailItem);
$a=$myItem->Recipients->Add("michelle@smartsley.com");
$myItem->Subject="PHP5 This is a test";
$myItem->Body="This is a Body Section now.....!";
$myItem->Display();

$myItem->Send();

Any help is greatly appreciated..

flatpooks

why would u want to create an email thru outlook via php? do u have outlook running on the server? php running on the client?

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smartsley

I'm working with a client that has Active Directory, exchange 2003, and ASP web - access client side applications to handle several critical office functions. I've replaced the ASP app with a php web app that authenticates through Active Directory. Not my major task is migrating the microsoft access ( where word documents are created on the fly, and outlook sessions are started to drop names that are resolved by exchange) to a web application in a LAMP environment. I've setup 2 servers one linux, and another windows with the COM extension active. If possible I need to keep as much functionality from original application as possible.

I could probably use the PEAR Mail package to handle email messages , but then I would have to would have to abstract the email addresses through ldap calls to active directory. It would just be twice as much work, but I can alter an active directory class I wrote to potentially handle it.

I know I can handle the auto creation of word documents from rtf templates, but I've been searching for others doing COM interaction with Outlook and it's scarce.

Do you know anything about PHP5 and Outlook Com objects?

smartsley

outlook is running on the client computer.. they log into an Active Directory domain, php is running on the one of 2 servers.. Linux -- apache - mysql - php 5.0.2 and windows 2000 - IIS5 - php 5.0.1

flatpooks

maybe im mistaken but to create a com object on the client(?) from the server(?) is that possible? especially with sp2 (if they have that?)

migrating from access to mysql isnt hard at all except access has totally unstandard sql syntax and subqueries etc ... u might have to take a lot of that kind of logic out into ur app for now (when subqueries are released in mysql u could put them back in)

the com interop stuff i dont know about ... try asking at www.codeproject.com ... there are some very knowledgeable windows people there that would be able to at least explain how asp and iis can do what u want to do ... then u could see if its possible for php and apache

hth
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smartsley

Yea.. it's possible to use php5 server side code, whether your WAMP environment is running CGI or ISAPI to create com objects ..

The most popular usage is creating word documents or excel spreadsheets on the fly... Just recently I've seen people venture out by using PHPCOM to "imitate" ASP or .NET code functionality. I'm really not trying to get that deep into it..

But thanks, and I'll check codeproject.. I'll post my findings back to this forum..

thanks for your assistance..