Hi Jay, Monday, October 17, 2005, 4:15:58 PM, you wrote: > Unfortunately I may not be able to have the DLL re-built with the > COM interface. It is an older DLL containing engineering functions > and it is huge. The real dingle here is that I only need to access > some of the functionality of the DLL. I also do not want to compile > it into PHP as it (the DLL) is a moving target. If the resources allow, you could always write a small command-line driven Windows app that passes arguments through to the DLL functions and returns the results? Then exec() the app. It's a bit too messy for my liking, but it's certainly an option. Cheers, Rich -- Zend Certified Engineer http://www.launchcode.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php