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Can I migrate an application using IIS4 and ASP with calls to ActiveX and OCX controls to PHP?

Sep 6th, 2000 08:30
John Lim, Matt Gregory, Victor Alvarez, unknown unknown,

PHP 4 on Windows supports Microsoft's COM technology. However PHP does 
not have a graphical user interface. So ActiveX controls that do have a 
UI cannot be used. ActiveX controls with no user interface and do not 
require special callback event handling might be used.
You will need to try on a case-by-case basis.
Some examples are available at the PHP.net website, in their COM 
documentation. Also see http://php.weblogs.com/com_php
If you are running PHP on Linux, then you need an ActiveX migration 
strategy. Various options are explored at 
http://php.weblogs.com/com_linux 
Hope this helps.
====== Previous Answer
>PHP [on UNIX] does not support ActiveX or OCX controlls.  I would not 
recommend 
>porting a production applciation using these tools without careful 
>consideration by an experienced person.
>Most of the functionality could be duplicated by using Java with PHP4, 
>but you would need an expert to know what and how well.