(PHP 5, PHP 7) "Adds" two variant values together and returns the result mixed variant_add ( mixed $left, mixed $right ) Adds left to right using the following rules (taken from the MSDN library), which correspond to those of Visual Basic: Variant Addition Rules If Then Both expressions are of the string type Concatenation One expression is a string type and the other a character Addition One expression is numeric and the o

(PHP 5, PHP 7) Returns the absolute value of a variant mixed variant_abs ( mixed $val ) Returns the absolute value of a variant. Parameters: val The variant. Returns: Returns the absolute value of val. See also: abs() -

(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5, PHP 7) Print out a PHP class definition for a dispatchable interface bool com_print_typeinfo ( object $comobject [, string $dispinterface [, bool $wantsink = false ]] ) The purpose of this function is to help generate a skeleton class for use as an event sink. You may also use it to generate a dump of any COM object, provided that it supports enough of the introspection interfaces, and that you kn

(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5, PHP 7) Process COM messages, sleeping for up to timeoutms milliseconds bool com_message_pump ([ int $timeoutms = 0 ] ) This function will sleep for up to timeoutms milliseconds, or until a message arrives in the queue. The purpose of this function is to route COM calls between apartments and handle various synchronization issues. This allows your script to wait efficiently for events to be trigg

(PHP 4 >= 4.1.0, PHP 5, PHP 7) Loads a Typelib bool com_load_typelib ( string $typelib_name [, bool $case_insensitive = true ] ) Loads a type-library and registers its constants in the engine, as though they were defined using define(). Note that it is much more efficient to use the configuration setting to pre-load and register the constants, although not so flexible. If you have turned on , then PHP will attempt t

(PHP 5, PHP 7) Returns a handle to an already running instance of a COM object variant com_get_active_object ( string $progid [, int $code_page ] ) com_get_active_object() is similar to creating a new instance of a COM object, except that it will only return an object to your script if the object is already running. OLE applications use something known as the "Running Object Table" to allow well-known applications to be laun

(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5, PHP 7) Connect events from a COM object to a PHP object bool com_event_sink ( variant $comobject, object $sinkobject [, mixed $sinkinterface ] ) Instructs COM to sink events generated by comobject into the PHP object sinkobject. Be careful how you use this feature; if you are doing something similar to the example below, then it doesn't really make sense to run it in a web server context.

(PHP 5, PHP 7) Generate a globally unique identifier (GUID) string com_create_guid ( void ) Generates a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID). A GUID is generated in the same way as DCE UUID's, except that the Microsoft convention is to enclose a GUID in curly braces. Returns: Returns the GUID as a string.

(PHP 4 >= 4.1.0, PHP 5, PHP 7) Sets xmlrpc type, base64 or datetime, for a PHP string value bool xmlrpc_set_type ( string &$value, string $type ) Sets xmlrpc type, base64 or datetime, for a PHP string value. Parameters: value Value to set the type type 'base64' or 'datetime' Returns: Returns TRUE on succ

(PHP 4 >= 4.1.0, PHP 5, PHP 7) Register a PHP function to resource method matching method_name bool xmlrpc_server_register_method ( resource $server, string $method_name, string $function ) This function is EXPERIMENTAL. The behaviour of this function, its name, and surrounding documentation may change without notice in a future release of PHP. This function should be used at y