Use DLL in PHP?

Question

I\'m not going to lie. I\'m not all the familiar with Windows and COM objects. That\'s why i\'m here. First of all is it possible to access a DLL from within a PHP script runnin

Answer 1

You can run dll functions (from dlls which are not php extensions) with winbinder. http://winbinder.org/ Using it is simple. You have to download php_winbinder.dll and include it in php.ini as an extension. In the php script you have to use something similar:

function callDll($func, $param = "")
{
    static $dll = null;
    static $funcAddr = null;
    if ($dll === null)
    {
        $dll = wb_load_library();
    }
    $funcAddr = wb_get_function_address($func, $dll);
    if ($param != "")
    {
        return wb_call_function($funcAddr,array(mb_convert_encoding($param,"UTF-16LE")));
    }
    else
    {
        return wb_call_function($funcAddr);
    }
}