Msword Com issue

[Ken Traub]

When I run a test code for com object in php I am getting a fatal error of PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function TypeText() on a non-object in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\test.php on line 13. Here is the code I am using

<?php 
// starting word 
$word = new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to instanciate Word"); 
echo "Loaded Word, version {$word->Version}\n"; 
 
//bring it to front 
$word->Visible = 1; 
 
//open an empty document 
$word->Documents->Add(); 
 
//do some weird stuff 
$word->Selection->TypeText("This is a test..."); 
$word->Documents[1]->SaveAs("Useless test.doc"); 
 
//closing word 
$word->Quit(); 
 
//free the object 
$word->Release(); 
$word = null; 
 
header('Content-Type: application/msword'); 
?>
 

Can someone please help me on this

[Dormilich]

it seems that $word->Selection is not an object. judging from the name, I’m not sure how PHP should select something …

[Ken Traub]

@Dormilich
If I remove the selection and make it

$word->TypeText("This is a test..."); 

I get PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method com::TypeText() in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\test.php on line 13

[Dormilich]

according to tutorials your code should work, so the question is why it fails at that specific point.

first thing to do is enable error reporting and error display, so you know of any warnings PHP issues.
second, double-check all variables and the return values of functions to see if tere is a problem somewhere.

[ReedGrabne90]

Look forward to finding out more.

[Ken Traub]

It seems the issue overall is for some reason it does not understand typetext(). Is there a php extension I should have added that this is in?