[thelist] PHP & COM on Windows

[Ken Schaefer]

Are you running PHP as a webpage? If so, why do you expect notepad.exe
to be visible to the interactive user? Unless you happen to be running
your webpage in the same security context as your interactive logon
-or- you enable that security context to interact with your desktop
(only do that for privileged processes), then the two processes will
have differing security contexts, and each context has it's own
desktop.

Cheers
Ken

On 8/1/05, Tim Massey <Tim.Massey at itrm.co.uk> wrote:
> I'm starting to get into COM scripting from PHP and have come across an
> annoying issue. I can start an instance of notepad.exe but the app never
> gets focus or is visible on screen.
> 
> It definitely runs - and is seen in Task Manager - but I can not see it!
> I have tried the appactivate() method without success.
> 
> Does anyone know of a good reference sites to learn more about using COM
> from PHP?
> 
> Many thanks.
> 
> Tim.