Re: Encrypt/decrypt compatibility with Microsoft Crypto API?

From	Trevor <trevorREMOVE@holyoak.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.php
Subject	Re: Encrypt/decrypt compatibility with Microsoft Crypto API?
Date	2011-05-17 11:38 -0600
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 5/13/2011 4:27 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

>> The Windows program was made with PowerBuilder, and since PowerBuilder
>> is able to create .Net assemblies, and PHP is supposed to be able to
>> use .Net assemblies, I thought it might be easiest to use the existing
>> code and put it in an assembly.
>>
>> Turns out PHP's support for .Net assemblies is not all that great.
>> Yes, the example at php.net for this functionality works, but as
>> stated in several stagnant bug reports, other objects within the same
>> mscorlib.dll assembly don't even work. Is is correct, as it appears,
>> that development on DOTNET has ceased, leaving it not very usable?
>>
>> This has been one long week, with nothing really to show for it. :(
>>
>> - Trevor
> I fear that is most peoples experience if trying to mix Microsoft with
> anything else. It nearly always curdles...;-)
>
>
> I spent a fruitless hour trying to get Word to understand any document I
> could produce 'cant open, out of memory'
>
> Gave up and installed open office on the wife's Mac..

I finally got it working. I used PowerBuilder.NET 12.1 to create the 
assembly, and used this library to call it from PHP: 
http://universalccw.sourceforge.net

- Trevor

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Encrypt/decrypt compatibility with Microsoft Crypto API? Trevor <trevor@holyoak.com> - 2011-05-11 15:03 -0600
  Re: Encrypt/decrypt compatibility with Microsoft Crypto API? JohnT <john@example.com> - 2011-05-11 22:15 +0000
    Re: Encrypt/decrypt compatibility with Microsoft Crypto API? Trevor <trevorREMOVE@holyoak.com> - 2011-05-13 16:20 -0600
      Re: Encrypt/decrypt compatibility with Microsoft Crypto API? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-13 23:27 +0100
        Re: Encrypt/decrypt compatibility with Microsoft Crypto API? Trevor <trevorREMOVE@holyoak.com> - 2011-05-17 11:38 -0600

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