COM instance (invoked from PHP)

Question

$XL = new COM("Excel.Application");

...creates a new instance of Excel.

But I want to interact with an existing one. (In the olden days, Microsoft VB term of art was GetObject() vis-à-vis CreateObject().)

PHP is being instructed in the statement above to do the equivalent of CreateObject(). How can it be instructed to do GetObject() instead?

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

I think this could be what you are looking for, but this is hte function style code, not the OOP style code:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.com-get-active-object.php