How to handle Collections?

[Jon Grieve]

Hi,

I'm very new to PHP, and am toying with some COM samples... specifically
the Windows FileSystem object.

This object has a property Drives, which returns a collection of Drive
objects (one for each drive letter). How can I enumerate this collection?

Here's the very basics:

$fs = new COM("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
$drives = $fs->Drives;
echo("$drives->Count Drives");

This much works correctly (I get "4 Drives").

The next logical thing I'd like to do is something like:

foreach($drives as $drive)
{
echo $drive->VolumeName;
}

....however, I don't get the expected results. If I add a diagnostic
echo, it get's fired once (rather than 4 times) and the existing echo
neither returns anything or any error.

Thoughts?

Is this a syntax thing, or a fundamental "PHP isn't VB mate"
misunderstanding on my part? ;)

Ta,
Jon

[Ian.H]

On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 16:00:35 +0000, Jon Grieve wrote:

Hi,

I'm very new to PHP, and am toying with some COM samples... specifically
the Windows FileSystem object.

This object has a property Drives, which returns a collection of Drive
objects (one for each drive letter). How can I enumerate this collection?

Here's the very basics:

$fs = new COM("Scripting.FileSystemObject"); $drives = $fs->Drives;
echo("$drives->Count Drives");

This much works correctly (I get "4 Drives").

The next logical thing I'd like to do is something like:

foreach($drives as $drive)
{
echo $drive->VolumeName;
}
}
...however, I don't get the expected results. If I add a diagnostic echo,
it get's fired once (rather than 4 times) and the existing echo neither
returns anything or any error.

Thoughts?

Is this a syntax thing, or a fundamental "PHP isn't VB mate"
misunderstanding on my part? ;)

Ta,
Jon

Hi Jon,

Have you tried:
var_dump($drives);die;
for debugging? This should outline the exact contents and type of
$drives.. maybe there's an issue in the storage method (I've not tried
personally, so just guessing =) ).

Regards,

Ian

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[Chung Leong]

Yup, PHP isn't VB. You have to call methods of IEnumVariant to enumerate
through a collection.

$fs = new COM("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
$drives = $fs->Drives;
echo $drives->Count;
$drives->Reset();
while($drive = $drives->Next()) {
echo $drive->VolumeName;
}

If you need to use COM, stick with VB. COM support in PHP isn't terribly
stable.

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Hi,

I'm very new to PHP, and am toying with some COM samples... specifically
the Windows FileSystem object.

This object has a property Drives, which returns a collection of Drive
objects (one for each drive letter). How can I enumerate this collection?

Here's the very basics:

$fs = new COM("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
$drives = $fs->Drives;
echo("$drives->Count Drives");

This much works correctly (I get "4 Drives").

The next logical thing I'd like to do is something like:

foreach($drives as $drive)
{
echo $drive->VolumeName;
}

...however, I don't get the expected results. If I add a diagnostic
echo, it get's fired once (rather than 4 times) and the existing echo
neither returns anything or any error.

Thoughts?

Is this a syntax thing, or a fundamental "PHP isn't VB mate"
misunderstanding on my part? ;)

Ta,
Jon

[Jon Grieve]

Chung,

Thanks -- that works fine. That certainly wasn't obvious to me at
all... the Next() and Reset() functions seem to be built-in Array functions?

Jon

Chung Leong wrote:

Yup, PHP isn't VB. You have to call methods of IEnumVariant to enumerate
through a collection.

$fs = new COM("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
$drives = $fs->Drives;
echo $drives->Count;
$drives->Reset();
while($drive = $drives->Next()) {
echo $drive->VolumeName;
}

If you need to use COM, stick with VB. COM support in PHP isn't terribly
stable.

Uzytkownik "Jon Grieve" <jgrieve@southdown-co-uk> napisal w wiadomosci
news:vv************@corp.supernews.com...

Hi,

I'm very new to PHP, and am toying with some COM samples... specifically
the Windows FileSystem object.

This object has a property Drives, which returns a collection of Drive
objects (one for each drive letter). How can I enumerate this collection?

Here's the very basics:

$fs = new COM("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
$drives = $fs->Drives;
echo("$drives->Count Drives");

This much works correctly (I get "4 Drives").

The next logical thing I'd like to do is something like:

foreach($drives as $drive)
{
echo $drive->VolumeName;
}

...however, I don't get the expected results. If I add a diagnostic
echo, it get's fired once (rather than 4 times) and the existing echo
neither returns anything or any error.

Thoughts?

Is this a syntax thing, or a fundamental "PHP isn't VB mate"
misunderstanding on my part? ;)

Ta,
Jon

[Chung Leong]

COM support is not integrated into PHP as it's in VB. Next and Reset are
methods of the IEnumVariant interface, which is provided by the COM
collection object.

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Chung,

Thanks -- that works fine. That certainly wasn't obvious to me at
all... the Next() and Reset() functions seem to be built-in Array functions?
Jon

Chung Leong wrote:

Yup, PHP isn't VB. You have to call methods of IEnumVariant to enumerate
through a collection.

$fs = new COM("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
$drives = $fs->Drives;
echo $drives->Count;
$drives->Reset();
while($drive = $drives->Next()) {
echo $drive->VolumeName;
}

If you need to use COM, stick with VB. COM support in PHP isn't terribly
stable.

Uzytkownik "Jon Grieve" <jgrieve@southdown-co-uk> napisal w wiadomosci
news:vv************@corp.supernews.com...

Hi,

I'm very new to PHP, and am toying with some COM samples... specifically
the Windows FileSystem object.

This object has a property Drives, which returns a collection of Drive
objects (one for each drive letter). How can I enumerate this collection?
Here's the very basics:

$fs = new COM("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
$drives = $fs->Drives;
echo("$drives->Count Drives");

This much works correctly (I get "4 Drives").

The next logical thing I'd like to do is something like:

foreach($drives as $drive)
{
echo $drive->VolumeName;
}

...however, I don't get the expected results. If I add a diagnostic
echo, it get's fired once (rather than 4 times) and the existing echo
neither returns anything or any error.

Thoughts?

Is this a syntax thing, or a fundamental "PHP isn't VB mate"
misunderstanding on my part? ;)

Ta,
Jon