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Adam Trachtenberg is the Senior Manager of Platform Evangelism at eBay, where he preaches the gospel of the eBay platform to developers and businessmen around the globe. Before eBay, Adam co-founded and served as vice president for development at two companies, Student.Com and TVGrid.Com. At both firms, he led the front- and middle-end web site design and development. Adam began using PHP in 1997, and is the author of Upgrading to PHP 5 and coauthor of PHP Cookbook, both published by O'Reilly Media. He lives in San Francisco, California, and has a B.A. and M.B.A. from Columbia University.

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PHP 5 + COM + Skype Help Wanted

September 12th, 2006 • Related • Filed Under

This is a help wanted ad. Any assistance would be much appreciated.

I’m trying to use PHP 5.2 to talk to Skype via the COM extension and Skype4COM interface.

I’m using this example from the Skype Forum, but I get a COM exception of “Skype client is not installed.”

However, I do have Skype on my machine and I’m not the only one with this problem, so I don’t think I’m completely crazy.

Unfortunately, I don’t normally develop on Windows or Skype, so it’s very hard for me to debug the COM extension. If anyone has some pointers on where I should start, it would be very useful. Thanks!

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  1. Comment by Eric Bartels on 13 September 2006:

    Have you tried to create a com-object of skype via the WSH, Visual Basic or C#?
    Perhaps the com-extension is not properly registered in the windows-registry?!

  2. Comment by Jaanus on 13 September 2006:

    Adam - I got it to work. Please see my comments here.

  3. Comment by Christopher on 6 October 2006:

    Hi Jaanus I am Christo. Please let me know how to integrate Skype chat with a PHP code. Our client needs Skype chat to be integrated with his website.
    Thanks

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