COM and early binding

[J Overholt]

I have a COM object I am using and I am having some problems setting a
property, I get an "PropPut() failed: Member not found". The property
I am setting is another COM object. Here's is the sample code:

$m = new COM("comobj.obj");
$x = $m->Extent;
$x->Inflate(.5,.5);
$m->Extent = $x; // get error here
Is there anyway to use early binding? I tried this with python, and
got the same error when I used late binding. When I generated an
early binding wrapper, it worked. Does PHP have a similar mechanism?

I've looked at com_load_typelib, but that just seems to import
constants. I would greatly appreciate any help. I would hate to have
to make up some hacky ASP page to get this to work.

I've tried this on php 4.3.4, 4.3.7 and 5.0 to no avail.

Thanks,
Jason