PawCom Application Note 102: Referencing PawCom with PHP
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10/5/2005

NOTE: PawCom exposes several properties using standard COM array-style access.
In PHP4 you may use PHP array syntax to read/write such a property, but only
a single dimension is allowed.  Unfortunately this does not let you access the
PawCom multi-dimensional properties.  This deficiency in PHP4 has been resolved
in PHP5, which allows you to access multi-dimensional COM properties.  Therefore,
if you want to use PHP with PawCom you should use PHP5.
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Here is a simple example that illustrates accessing PawCom from PHP:

<?
// 0 is the value returned for success
$bStatusOK = 0; 
// create an instance of the btrieve object
$oBtrieve = new COM("PAW.Btrieve");
// Connect the test BCS data
$Status = $oBtrieve->Connect("I:\PEACHW\Bcs");
// check if connection was successful
if($Status==$bStatusOK)
{
  // create an instance of the CompanyInformation object
  $oInfo = new COM("PAW.CompanyInformation");
  // open the Company INformation file
  $Status = $oInfo->OpenFile();
  // check that open was successful
  if($Status==$bStatusOK)
  {
    // get the first and only record
    $oInfo->StepFirst();
    // read the company name into a variable for use by using the
function
    $CompanyName = $oInfo->CompanyName();
    echo "<br>The Company Name is $CompanyName";
    // you could change the company name like this by storing the new
name in the property
    $oInfo->CompanyName="Bellweather Garden Supplies";
    // use the update function to write the changed information to
btrieve
    $Status=$oInfo->Update();
    if($Status==$bStatusOK)
        echo "<br> Company name was changed to $oInfo->CompanyName";
    else 
        echo "<br>Status = $Status - Update not completed for Company
Information";
          
    // Close the company info file
    $oInfo->CloseFile();
    // remove the object
    unset($oInfo);
  } /* end of if */
  else /* openfile was not successful */
  {
      echo "<br> Status = $Status - Cannot Open Company Information";
  }


// disconnect from betrieve
$bstatus=$oBtrieve->Disconnect();
} /* end of if successful btrieve connection */
else
{
    echo "<br> Status = $Status - Cannot Connect to Peachtree data";
}
// remove the object
unset($oBtrieve);
?>