On Nov 20, 2:00 am, David Gillen <bel...@RedBrick.DCU.IEwrote:
Quote:
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I've a dll which contains an API to a document server. The documentation
talk about in MS Visual studio adding a reference to the dll in the under
COM objects.
>
What I'm wondering is there anyway in PHP to load the DLL and make use
of it's API functionality?
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There's more than one way it can be done. First, if you are running
PHP
on a Windows server, you can call the COM objects directly:
http://php.net/COM
Alternatively, you may be able to wrap your DLL into a PHP extension,
which
will also require that PHP be running on a Windows machine.
If PHP must run on a non-Windows platform, you may be able to expose
the
API as a Web service, but that will have to be done in whatever
language
the server on which the DLL resides supports.
Cheers,
NC
