Accessing Remote Com Components

[Anon]

Hi, How do I access Com components on a remote system.

I am just starting out with PHP Com, so am wondering (I have read some of the things here, but seem to be a bit confused on "DCOM" - about problems accessing Com Components on a remote system)

My Development workstation will be a Win 2K Pro / Apache / PHP 4 / MySQL and the components will be running on a Win2K Server + IIS

Any code samples will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[andrin]

Maybe :-)

http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/luis20010329.php3

[Anon]

Hi, Thanks for your reply.

I think http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/alain20001003.php3 is more relevant to what I am looking at as I will not be useing SOAP / XML, etc.

I have read / heard that there are some potential problems when you use PHP to access Com components on a remote system, and thats what I am more worried about.

If someone can tell me what are the things I have to watch out for, it will be very helpful.

Thanks :-)