Calling Access databases and COM programs through ADO_PHP tutorial

PHP4 already supports Microsoft's COM technology. However, there is very little mention in the COM part of the document. Here are a few examples I've tried. Hope this gives you some idea. Note that these only run on 32-bit Microsoft Windows platforms. Activate ADO with php ADO is Microsoft's database object technology. ADO includes objects that connect to the database, recordset objects that return data from query statements, and field objects that represent data elements. Many databases do not directly support ADO. Instead, many databases support two lower levels of Microsoft database technology: ODBC and OLEDB. Many databases support ODBC; but OLEDB has a reputation for being faster than ODBC. ADO is an API that wraps ODBC and OLEDB. This example opens a new ADO connection object and opens a traditional ACCESS database through ODBC. Then we execute a SQL query and a recordset object is returned. Then we display the first three fields of the recordset. $dbc = new COM("ADODB.Connection"); $dbc->Provider = "MSDASQL"; $dbc->Open("nwind"); $rs = $dbc->Execute("select * from products"); $i = 0; while (!$rs->EOF ) { $i += 1; $fld0 = $rs->Fields[0]; $fld1 = $rs->Fields[1]; $fld2 = $rs->Fields[2]; print "$fld0-> value $fld1->value $fld2->value
"; $rs->MoveNext(); } $rs->Close(); ?> Calling Microsoft Word with PHP Here is another example: $word=new COM("word.application") or die("Cannot start Microsoft Word"); print "Loaded word version ($word->Version ) "; $word->visible = 1 ; $word->Documents->Add(); $word->Selection->Typetext("This is a test"); ?>