Class 'COM' not found

Question

I've been trying to open a word document in my script, but I get receiving the same error.

 Fatal error: Class 'COM' not found in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/**/**.php on line 3 

My code:

<?php  $word = new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to instantiate Word");   $word->Visible = 1;    $word->Documents->Open("wordfile.docx"); $temp = $word->Dialogs->Item(228); // returns wdDialogToolsWordCount dialog object $temp->Execute();   //updates the word count $numwords = $temp->Words(); //gets the words out of it  echo 'Word count = '.$numwords;  $word->Quit();   ?> 

I've tried to change php.ini and remove the semicolons from COM section.

[com] path to a file containing GUIDs, IIDs or filenames of files with TypeLibs com.typelib_file =  allow Distributed-COM calls com.allow_dcom = true autoregister constants of a components typlib on com_load() com.autoregister_typelib = true register constants casesensitive com.autoregister_casesensitive = false show warnings on duplicate constat registrations com.autoregister_verbose = true  

and still getting the same error.

I'm using a XAMMP on mac, and a linux based web hosting.

Answer 1

From PHP 5.4.5, COM and DOTNET is no longer built into the php core.you have to add COM support in php.ini:

[COM_DOT_NET] extension=php_com_dotnet.dll 

Otherwise you will see this in your error log: Fatal error: Class 'COM' not found

The extension is included with php 5.4.5 for Windows.