Php4 Com

[cako]

Here I have basic code that should write some text in word document and save it. It does that ok but it doesn't launch word it starts it in proccesses viewed by task manager. I want it to launch word that I can see it. As I understand $word->Visible = 1; should do this but it doesn't, any help is aprechiated

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

$word->Visible = 1;

$word->Documents->Add();

$word->Selection->TypeText("This is a test...");
$word->Documents[1]->SaveAs("d:/cako/php.doc");

$word->Quit();
?>

[thorpe]

the Visable property excepts a bool (True / False). try setting it to True.

[cako]

It's the same it works in both cases but it doesn't launch word window

[thorpe]

well, there are no other options. knowing MS, its probably a bug. have you at any stage set this Visable property to False. as far as i can tell from the docs, if you set Visable to False, and then dont set it back to True before the end of your script word will get stuck in a non visable state even when called from the desktop. this might be causing you issues, but surely you can reset it back to True.

you might want to try a restart.

[thorpe]

actually... ive had a bit more of a think about this. this application your working on. is it in a webpage (called from the browser) or are you using php from the command line interface?

if its running in a web app, im pretty sure its running in a process that doesnt have access to the desktop.

try running this same script through the command line and you may get a different result.

[cako]

It is working from command line, I am developing desktop app using WinBinder, but I was testing this through server, thanks