Calling Excel from PHP 5 through COM fails on Windows 7 when Apache started through Task Planner
- by Stefan Pantke
I currently write an application, which controls Excel through COM: The app creates a COM-based Excel instance, opens some XLS files and reads their contents.
Scenario I
On Windows 7, I start Apache and mySQL using xmapp-control with system administrator rights. All works as expected. The PHP-based controller script interacts with Excel as…