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RE: [PHP3] PHP3 and ActiveX From: Alex Belits (abelits <email protected>)
Date: 07/16/98

On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

> > That works fine on a client using Explorer. But, I believe that we are
> > talking about having PHP, itself, call ActiveX controls and manipulate their
> > functions. Rather than just pasting some code into the client and having
> > the client access a local control. This would be a server-side control.
>
> Hrm... But the ActiveX control runs on the client. PHP runs on the
> server. JavaScript, for example, can talk to an ActiveX control because
> they are on the same machine. The only way PHP would be able to talk to
> an ActiveX control would be if the control listened on a socket and a PHP
> script sent stuff to that socket, or if the ActiveX control itself made
> HTTP queries to talk to PHP. The latter case is more likely, I would
> think.

  There is a confusion (caused by Microsoft's own misuse of those names)
between COM and ActiveX. ActiveX control is COM component packaged to be
used on remote box, however people often call every COM component "ActiveX
control".

  My opinion about the need for special support of both things in PHP is
omitted as obvious. 

--
Alex

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