Execution of vbscript inside php

[pirimor]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to execute a simple vbscript from php. It must convert a file '.doc' in a file '.htm' using Word.
It must work on server side.
It works if I execute it from command line with:
C:/cscript c:/script/doc_htm.vbs
but when I call it from php it doesn't work. The instruction that I use is:
exec("cscript c:/script/doc_htm.vbs"

The script is:

infile="D:\Word\index.doc"
outfile="D:\Word\word2"

Dim obj
Set obj = CreateObject("Word.Application&quot
obj.Visible = FALSE
obj.Documents.Open(infile)
obj.ActiveDocument.SaveAs outfile&"\index.htm", 8
obj.Quit

Could anyone help me?
Thank you.

 

[sleipnir214]

I notice that your invokation from the command line and your invokation from the PHP script are different -- in your PHP script, you do not seem to be referencing the absolute path of cscript

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[AnakinPt]

why don't you use COM inside PHP to solve your problem without VBScript?

$word = new COM("word.application"
$word->Visible = 0;
$word->Documents->Open($infile);
$word->ActiveDocument->SaveAs (&outfile."\index.htm", 8);
$word->Quit();

You can see more information in

http://pt.php.net/manual/en/class.com.php

Anikin
Hugo Alexandre Dias
Web-Programmer
anikin@anikin-skywalker.com

 

[pirimor]

I've tried using COM but it doesn't work.
It doesn't give me any error during execution, but it block the execution of the php script.
It blocks at the first istruction:

$word=new COM("word.application"

and I don't understand why.

Pietro

 

[AnakinPt]

You have to use the COM extension in php.ini.

Find the line
extension=php_com.dll
and uncomment it



Anikin
Hugo Alexandre Dias
Web-Programmer
anikin@anikin-skywalker.com

 

[pirimor]

I have no line like this in php.ini.
The PHP Manual says:

"...The windows version of PHP has built in support for this extension. You do not need to load any additional extension in order to use these functions."

I have installed php4.3.1 and it runs on apache2.0.4 on Win2K