DLLs and PHP

[kia44]

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if anyone knew any ways to integrate DLL files in to PHP code. I have a DLL file accessible to me which has functions that I need to use for encyprtion and authentication for a PHP program I am writing. I haven't been able to find anything anywhere else. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Kia

[bastien]

[man]COM[/man] is what you are after

[MarkR]

Depends whether it's a COM DLL or not.

If it isn't, COM isn't going to help you.

You would then probably have to write (in C) a wrapper which sits between PHP and the native DLL you want to call methods of. You can then open that intermediate DLL with dl() and then call any functions it exposes directly from PHP

Mark