I forgot to say, that PHP 5 is crashing with this example.

Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php5-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:
 
  http://snaps.php.net/win32/php5-win32-latest.zip

Are you using the latest CVS snapshot..?

No I was not. Now I tested it.
It is still crashing, also in function in which it did not crash before (without use of references)

Please try it without the reference flags:

try {
  $x = new Variant(0.0);
  $y = new Variant(0.0);
  $z = new Variant(0.0);
  $sphere->getPosition($x, $y, $z, false);
}
catch (exception $e) {
  print_r($e);
}

If that doesn't work, can you please be more specific
about what is going wrong (does it crash or does it
throw an exception?).

Please also include details about the "function that
did not crash before (without the use of references)".

Ideally, I want to be able to reproduce this on my
machine here so I can debug it; is the component
you are using publically available? (source preferred).

Hi.

try and catch does not work. It still crash.
I will now try to reduce the source as much as possible to a few lines of codes so you can reproduce it.
The source code of our module is not available but I could send you the needed dll, so you can test it. To which email should I send the dlls?

Please send the dll to wez@php.net along with appropriate installation instructions and the smallest reproducing script.

Here the easiest script I got:
DLLs and needed instrcutions were sent by email the 16th dec. at 11:58 European time. (Subject DLLs for Bug #26632)
Hope this help. Would be nice to see this bug solved!

<?php
try {
    $iQlib = new COM("iQvolution.iQLibIf");

    $iQlib->load("c:\\A.iQmod");

	$numScans = $iQlib->getNumScans();
	echo "Nb of scans:{$numScans}<BR>\r\n";

	for($i = 0; $i < $numScans; $i++)
	{
		$objIf = $iQlib->getScanObject($i);
		$scanName = $objIf->getName();
		echo "&nbsp;&nbsp;Scan {$i}:&nsp;{$scanName}<BR>\r\n";

		$x = VARIANT(0.0, VT_R8 | VT_BYREF);
		$y = VARIANT(0.0, VT_R8 | VT_BYREF);
		$z = VARIANT(0.0, VT_R8 | VT_BYREF);
		$scanIf = $objIf->getScanObjSpecificIf();
		$scanIf->getPosition($x, $y, $z, false);
	}

//    $iQlib->Release();
    $iQlib = null;
}
catch (exception $e)
{
	echo "<PRE>";
	print_r($e);
	echo "</PRE>";
}
?>

Is someone working on this very anoying bug? Did not here anything since a while!

Thanks

Sorry, this report slipped through the cracks.
I did however add automatic support for byref
parameters, so the code below *should* work
(no need to explicitly create variant objects
for $x, $y, $z).

Please let me know how you get on; try a recent PHP 5
snapshot (code was added a little while ago; beta 4
should work).

iQlib = new COM("iQvolution.iQLibIf");
$iQlib->load("c:\\A.iQmod");
$numScans = $iQlib->getNumScans();
for($i = 0; $i < $numScans; $i++) {
   $objIf = $iQlib->getScanObject($i);
   $scanIf = $objIf->getScanObjSpecificIf();
   $scanIf->getPosition($x, $y, $z, false);
}

Hi! Thanks for the answer.
Now I am using PHP 5 beta 4. I use the php-cgi.exe version.

I'm doing the following:
<?php 
	echo "Start";

try {
	$iQlib = new COM("iQvolution.iQLibIf");
}
catch (exception $e)
{
	echo "<PRE>";
	print_r($e);
	echo "</PRE>";
}

echo "End";
?>

It crashs echoing the following:
Start
com_exception Object
(
    [message:protected] => Failed to create COM object `iQvolution.iQLibIf': The specified module could not be found.

    [string:private] => 
    [code:protected] => -2147024770
    [file:protected] => C:\Documents and Settings\rd\My Documents\iQvolution\Develop\iQworks HTML\Debug\iQworks\ProjectManagement\COM.php
    [line:protected] => 5
    [trace:private] => Array
        (
        )

)

End


Of course, it seems as the iQworks COM Obj is not registered, but this is not true as for example Excel with a visual basic script is working correctly.

Do you want me to send you the dlls? Or do something that could help to debug the problem?

Thanks!

R?gis

Ok. Here the previous problem:
I registered the iQopen.dll (COM) using regsvr32 on a path defined with a subst. The dos "subst" command allows to define a virtual harddrive under windows. Interesting enough, if you register your COM using a path based on a subst, PHP is not able to find the module (error of the previous message). But other tools like Excel are able to do it.
So maybe you want to take a look on this.

Now I am able to load the initial script under PHP 5 beta 4. I am doing the following:
<?php 
try {
	$iQlib = new COM("iQvolution.iQLibIf");

	$iQlib->load("c:\\A.iQmod");

	$numScans = $iQlib->getNumScans();
	echo "Nb of scans:{$numScans}<BR>\r\n";

	for($i = 0; $i < $numScans; $i++)
	{
		$objIf = $iQlib->getScanObject($i);
		$scanName = $objIf->getName();
		echo "&nbsp;&nbsp;Scan {$i}:&nbsp;{$scanName}<BR>\r\n";

		$scanIf = $objIf->getScanObjSpecificIf();
		$scanIf->getPosition($x, $y, $z, false);
		echo "$x";
	}

//    $iQlib->Release();
    $iQlib = null;
}
catch (exception $e)
{
	echo "<PRE>";
	print_r($e);
	echo "</PRE>";
}
?>

It crashing with a "memory could not be written" message. It displays
-------
Nb of scans:3
  Scan 0: 
-------

So basically the same as beta 3. How can we solve the problem ??

I'll look into it, but don't have time to get stuck in
for a couple of weeks :/

Note: the subst thing is due to security privilieges that
your web server is using at runtime.

Ok for the subst.
For the rest of a problem, that is of course a bad news for me that you you do not have time now because I presume that it could then be not solved in PHP 5 release version. :-( 
Is there anything I can do to help you save time??

<?PHP

	$Vsheets1 = new VARIANT("", VT_BSTR); #No byRef - works
	$Vsheets2 = new VARIANT("", VT_BSTR|VT_BYREF); #Doesn't work
	
	
?>

Hi,

we found a bug in our COM-IF, which wrongly referenced one object. So in the most cases, unref was called on this object to early.
Sorry for that. You can close the case.

JFY, the following code does not work:
$scanIf->getPosition($x, $y, $z, false);

You have to define your vars before:
$x = 0.0;
$y = 0.0;
$z = 0.0;
$scanIf->getPosition($x, $y, $z, false);