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B.8 Updated COM Extension

The COM extension has undergone a rewrite to fix bugs and to take advantage of the new features in PHP 5. For example, COM errors now trigger exceptions. Additionally, the new extension supports .NET assemblies. This extension is available only on Windows.

For more information, see http://www.php.net/com and http://www.zend.com/php5/articles/php5-dotnet.php.



    		Upgrading to PHP 5
    		Preface
    		Chapter 1. Introduction
    		Chapter 2. Object-Oriented Programming
    		Chapter 3. MySQL
    		Chapter 4. SQLite
    		Chapter 5. XML
    		Chapter 6. Iterators and SPL
    		Chapter 7. Error Handling and Debugging
    		Chapter 8. Streams, Wrappers, and Filters
    		Chapter 9. Other Extensions
    		Chapter 10. PHP 5 in Action
    		Appendix A. Introduction to XML
    		Appendix B. Additional New Features and Minor Changes
    		B.1 Passing Optional Parameters by Reference
    		B.2 New E_STRICT Error Setting
    		B.3 Treating Strings as Arrays Causes Errors
    		B.4 CLI Now Allows Individual Line Processing
    		B.5 CLI Always Provides argv and argc
    		B.6 Oracle (oci8) Extension Functions Renamed
    		B.7 New Configuration Directives
    		B.8 Updated COM Extension
    		B.9 Apache 2 Correctly Sets PATH_TRANSLATED
    		B.10 strrpos( ) Uses the Entire Needle
    		B.11 Windows 95 Support Dropped
    		B.12 old_function Eliminated
    		Appendix C. Installing PHP 5 Alongside PHP 4
    		Colophon