PHP 5.2.2 and COM variants

[smiggles]

Hi everyone,

 

I wonder if any of you brave souls can help with this problem...

 

I've want to call a COM function that has the following fingerprint:

 

        function Connect(

                /* VT_VARIANT [12] [in]                    */ $SecurityToken,

                /* VT_BSTR [8] [in]                          */ $Workstation,

                /* VT_BSTR [8] [in]                          */ $SecurityContext,

                /* VT_PTR [26] [out] --> VT_PTR [26]  */ &$Connection

                )

 

where the fourth parameter 'Connection' is a returned pointer to another com interface.

 

How do I go about calling this routine? - every thing i've tried passing as the fourth paramter always a gives a 'Parameter 0: Type mismatch' error.

 

Ideally i'd like to instantiate a variant of the correct type and pass that as the fourth parameter but the variant needs to be of type VT_PTR and php doesn't seem to want to allow me to do this. It doesn't recognise type VT_PTR as a valid variant type in the variant constructor.

 

Thanks in advance...

 

Paul.