COM on win2k ERROR...

[fahad]

Hi

I am running WIN 2K + IIS + PHP 4.0.6.

I am trying to run following script

<?

$word = new COM("word.application") 
	or die("Unable to instanciate Word");

$word->Visible = 0;

$word->Documents->Add();

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

$word->Quit();

$word->Release();
$word = null;

?>

  WHEN I try to execute this thing, application error comes. and following ERROR is shown in Browser...

Error

Warning: Invoke() failed: No description available in F:\my work\PHP\com\index.php on line 14
Error

Warning: Invoke() failed: Exception occurred. in F:\my work\PHP\com\index.php on line 17
Error

Warning: Unable to lookup saveas: Unknown name. in F:\my work\PHP\com\index.php on line 17

   Can somebody help???

             fahad
             www.fahadkhalil.f2s.com

[Anon]

Fahad,

we have the same problem with win2kServer/Office2k/IIS5/php 4.1.1 isapi

Did you get any help so far?
Any good resource?

Marc

[fahad]

Hi Marc,

So you are also in trouble? Welcome to COM Trouble Club 🙂

Nop, I am still unable to find any solutions 🙁

Since I have to do this, I found an alternative solution. I wrote php scripts (which deals with COM) and hosted them on Apache server, running on same machine (with same configration as yours) but on different port. Link was...

<a href="http://ghost:8080/projects/php/COM/word.php">
Click here to create word document
</a>

Clicking on this link results in leting the Apache to do something for us 🙂

Now about resources, Net is full of tutorials. Meanwhile, my problem was to Open a word template, put data (from data base) into specific points (book marks) and save it with another name. So that user can get formated report.

If you are inerested in source code, I will be glad to help you 🙂 Just throw an email me at [e-mail].

Now about problem, I think IIS does not allows us to interact with Application.word. Reason is a bad guy can create infinite instances of Word on server and hence eating up resources and memory. But this is my thinking...

Now thanks for listening to all this, as we call things like this in our language 'bukwaas'...

Regards
Fahad
www.fahadkhalil.f2s.com

[Anon]

Hi did you work this out? I'm getting a simular problem with PHP 4.0.5 runing as Apache module.

Warning: Unable to lookup add: Unknown name. in d:\apache group\apache\htdocs\test2.php on line 13

Michael