Marcus Whitney's Blog: Microsoft on PHP (podcast)
In this new blog entry, Marcus Whitney talks about the upcoming php|architect webcast he'll be hosting interviewing two people from Microsoft - Brian Goldfarb and Joe Stagner. I'm pretty excited about...
View ArticleJustin Silverton's Blog: Excel and php without COM
At times, working within the confines of a Microsoft world can be frustrating, especially when it comes to making more advanced versions of files (i.e. a "real" Excel file versus a CSV). In this...
View ArticleInformBank.com: How to create Microsoft Office documents on the fly using PHP
In this new tutorial from InformBank posted today, they show how to use PHP (and a few handy tricks) to create Microsoft Office documents on the fly. Sometimes you have to generate some MS Office...
View ArticleAdam Trachtenberg's Blog: PHP 5 + COM + Skype Help Wanted
Adam Trachtenberg is looking for some help in the COM department, specficially in using it with PHP5. I'm trying to use PHP 5.2 to talk to Skype via the COM extension and Skype4COM interface. I'm...
View ArticleJSLabs Blog: How to create Microsoft Office Documents with PHP
From the JSLabs blog today, there's a quick illustration of how to dynamically create three different types of Microsoft Office files - a Word document, Powerpoint and an Excel file. There are two...
View ArticleMilw0rm.com: Exploit - PHP5 COM Object Security Bypass (Windows)
An exploit for PHP's COM objects on the 5.x series has been reported by shinnai - an issue that allows for a bypass of safe_mode and disable_function settings. The exploit has been published as a PHP...
View ArticleDeveloper Tutorials Blog: Extracting text from Word Documents via PHP and COM
In a recent blog post Akash Mehta showed how to reach into a Microsoft document (a Word file) and pull out the content inside via a PHP script. Communicating via COM in PHP is easy as ever; especially...
View ArticleAn Phillips' Blog: COM/.NET Interop in Zero PHP
Ant Phillips looks a bit at some interoperability between the PHP and Project Zero when to comes to using the COM/.NET extension. Zero doesn't currently support the COM/.NET extension in PHP. No...
View ArticleJuozas Kaziukenas' Blog: How to use external libraries in PHP?
As a part of his work for the WinPHP Challenge Juozas Kaziukenas looks at some of the external library types that you can use with your (Windows) PHP applications. External libraries are useful for...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: PHP and WMI - Dig deep into Windows with PHP
On the SitePoint PHP blog they've posted a new tutorial that "digs deep" into PHP on Windows with WMI, the Windows Management Instrumentation functionality - a web-based architecture information...
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