COM functions in PHP (making word document)

anyone done this? I am trying...but it's not working. I have word installed on the server.

here is the code i'm using

<?
// starting word
$word = new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to instantiate Word");
echo "Loaded Word, version {$word->Version}\n";

//bring it to front
$word->Visible = 1;

//open an empty document
$word->Documents->Add();

//do some weird stuff
$word->Selection->TypeText("This is a test...");
$word->Documents[1]->SaveAs("Useless test.doc");

//closing word
$word->Quit();

//free the object
$word = null;
?>

and this is the error message i get when i try and run it

Loaded Word, version 9.0
Warning: (null)(): Invoke() failed: Exception occurred. Source: Microsoft Word Description: Could not open macro storage. in D:\www\ranetweb\apps\word_test.php on line 10

Warning: (null)(): Invoke() failed: Exception occurred. Source: Microsoft Word Description: The requested member of the collection does not exist. in D:\www\ranetweb\apps\word_test.php on line 14

any idea how i can fix this? Something wrong with word macros or something?

10011100 1010110001111100 10010 100 0 00 11010101 10

Documents[0] ?

well the first error is before even that

$word->Documents->Add();
(thats line 10)

hmmm so i somehow need to change the user it is running under....not sure how to do that

halp!

or give the IUSER_IIS_SUCKS account permission to do whatever it is you want it to do.

yeah i tried that...didn't work...ugh

edit: Nevermind. I read further, and I see that you narrowed it down to something else.

i searched on google, and there are other people having that same problem - but no solution....argh.

worse comes to worse try RTF and wordpad...more compatible