php application send mouse click

[n00b3]

hello freakz,

 

I am mostly familiar with php for serving up web pages; however, recently i have been writing a local command line script on my WinXP machine.  I have spent the better part of this last week and all of today trying to figure out a way to send a mouse click to a particular window on the screen.

 

I first saw w32api.dll on the php.net site.  However, I cannot find this dll, but this searching took me to winbinder and php-gtk2.  It seems that I can only get winbinder to get (not send) mouse information: event type and x,y positions.  I am not too familiar with php-gtk nor creating dlls.

 

I want to use my local php command line script on my winXP machine to send mouse events (click) to a window.  I am open to any ideas on how to do this. 

 

For C++ and VB there seems to be the SendMessage() function.  Is there a way to tap into that function from my php script?

 

winbinder has a function that wraps the SendMessage() function called wb_send_message, but after literally 9 hours i quit.

 

Possible ideas:

-Load a dll with the dl() function?  (Write the dll with VB or C++)

-use the w32api_register_function() in php somehow to 'tap' into windows api functions.

-use a project that can assist me in this like php-gtk2 or winbinder

-maybe someone has a copy of w32api.dll

-something about COM objects, though i am really not familiar

 

I am throwing out this question to the community and wondering what your suggestions would be for how to go about sending a mouse click event to my windows api from a php script.

 

I am not interested in writing javascript as this is not a web application.

 

Any thoughts, comments, suggestions, about how to do send mouse events from a php script will be much appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance,