PHP COM Error

[mtoynbee]

I am trying to start learning PHP COM and have the following script:

 

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);

try {
$filename = "brief_synopsis.doc";
$word = new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to instantiate Word");
$word->Documents->Open($filename);
$new_filename = substr($filename,0,-4) . ".txt";

$word->Documents[1]->SaveAs($new_filename,2);
$word->Documents[1]->Close(false);
$word->Quit();
$word->Release();
$word = NULL;
unset($word);

$fh = fopen($new_filename, 'r');

$contents = fread($fh, filesize($new_filename));
fclose($fh);
unlink($new_filename);
} catch (com_exception $e) {
$err = array('errorCode' => $e->getCode(),
'errorMessage' => $e->getMessage(),
'errorFile' => $e->getFile(),
'errorLine' => $e->getLine());
var_dump($err);
}

?>

 

I get the exception error dump as:

 

array(4) { ["errorCode"]=>  int(-2147221020) ["errorMessage"]=>  string(64) "Failed to create COM object `word.application': Invalid syntax " ["errorFile"]=>  string(46) "E:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Intranet\phpcom.php" ["errorLine"]=>  int(6) }

 

I am using Windows Server 2003. IIS, PHP 5

 

Any ideas what is causing the error? Or if anyone has a working script for opening and view an MS Word file let me know. Thanks.

 

 

 

[mtoynbee]

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