PHP on Windows - Web based Accounting / COM

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Web based Accounting / COM

Jason Barnett

2005-04-27, 3:58 pm

The question: can anyone point me to a good howto for building COM
components? It would be great if there were open source tools for
building the actual COM object. It would be better if the howto was
geared towards building COM objects for web apps. Obviously the web
pages will be written in PHP so if there is a reference for PHP <-> COM
interoperability that would be the best!

The details:

My company is a longtime user of the the Peachtree Accounting software.
It's very cheap compared to all of the features it provides ($849
multi-user) and it meets most of our needs. However, my boss recently
told me that we need to be able to support a few features remotely.

- Our install guys need to be able to enter expense reports
- The boss wants to be able to get Cash Flow / Financial reports
- Sales wants to be able to do quotes
- Peachtree provides a free SDK (provided you understand COM ;)
http://www.peachtree.com/partners/addonpartners/

P.S. Yes we know about the web interface that is available from Best /
Peachtree. However, their pages require IE in order to function and
that is simply unacceptable.

P.P.S. If anyone out there knows of another program that is comparable
to Peachtree in features (and already has good web support) then feel
free to let me know about that alternative. We're looking to upgrade

Michael

2005-04-27, 3:58 pm

Sounds like your questions need to be directed to the Peachtree support
team. COM in terms of technology is a little dated to go learning (unless
it is essential), you should probably look to some software that provides
Web Service access. Depending on how big their (Peachtree) web interface is
(and or how it was developed) you may want to look at modifying that to suit
the browser you are using (unless they have loads of widgets that are i.e.
specific of course).

Jason Barnett writes:

> The question: can anyone point me to a good howto for building COM
> components? It would be great if there were open source tools for
> building the actual COM object. It would be better if the howto was
> geared towards building COM objects for web apps. Obviously the web pages
> will be written in PHP so if there is a reference for PHP <-> COM
> interoperability that would be the best!
>
>
>
> The details:
>
> My company is a longtime user of the the Peachtree Accounting software.
> It's very cheap compared to all of the features it provides ($849
> multi-user) and it meets most of our needs. However, my boss recently
> told me that we need to be able to support a few features remotely.
>
> - Our install guys need to be able to enter expense reports
> - The boss wants to be able to get Cash Flow / Financial reports
> - Sales wants to be able to do quotes
> - Peachtree provides a free SDK (provided you understand COM ;)
> http://www.peachtree.com/partners/addonpartners/
>
> P.S. Yes we know about the web interface that is available from Best /
> Peachtree. However, their pages require IE in order to function and that
> is simply unacceptable.
>
> P.P.S. If anyone out there knows of another program that is comparable to
> Peachtree in features (and already has good web support) then feel free to
> let me know about that alternative. We're looking to upgrade
>
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