When it comes to doing things with the registry, PHP4 seems to be better than PHP5: <?php $registry = new COM('winmgmts:root/DEFAULT:StdRegProv'); $values = new VARIANT(); echo $registry->getBinaryValue(0x80000002, 'SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Cryptography\\RNG', 'Seed', $values); var_dump($values->value); ?> That works as expected on PHP4. On PHP5, it gives yet another "this variant has no properties" error. On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Thomas Anderson <zelnaga@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > <?php > $wscript = new COM('WScript.Shell'); > while (true) { > $random = $wscript->RegRead('HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Cryptography\\RNG\\Seed'); > var_dump($random->value); > sleep(1); > echo "\r\n"; > } > ?> > > That gives me a "this variant has no properties" error. My question > is... how on earth does it not have any properties? As the following > VBscript is testament to, it clearly does have properties: > > function bin2hex(values) > dim result > for each value in values > temp2 = hex(value) > select case len(temp2) > case 0: result = result & "00" > case 1: result = result & "0" & temp2 > case 2: result = result & temp2 > end select > next > bin2hex3 = result > end function > > Set WshShell = createObject("WScript.Shell") > > temp = WshShell.RegRead("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG\Seed") > MsgBox(bin2hex(temp)) > > Doing vartype on temp reveals that it's an array of variants (VT_ARRAY > | VT_VARIANT). Even variant_get_type agrees. But how do access the > elements of htat variant array? Can I? > -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php