Reading Registry on IIS server with PHP com object not working

Question

I am trying to read a registry value on iis using the following script.

$shell = new COM("WScript.Shell") or die("Requires Windows Scripting Host");
$devenvpath=$shell->RegRead("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\App\\Pathsfirefox.exe");

It doesn't work. It keeps telling me "Unable to open registry key". I am assuming this is a permissions issue but not sure. How can I get this to work.

Thanks for the help.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 01 '13 at 01:37

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Perhaps its only a typo on your original post, but it looks to me as though there ought to be a "\" between "Paths" and "Firefox.exe" in that registry line.

$devenvpath=$shell->RegRead("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\App\\Paths\\firefox.exe");

answered Mar 01 '13 at 01:37

David W

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Nope still not working. It dies at the $shell line. I never get the echo statment below it to work try { $shell = new COM("WScript.Shell") or die("Requires Windows Scripting Host"); echo "Never gets past the line above"; $response = $shell->RegRead("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\App Paths\\firefox.exe\\Path"); var_dump( $response ); } catch (Exception $e) { echo 'Caught exception: ', $e->getMessage(), "\n"; } – joeb Apr 21 '13 at 14:21

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 22 '13 at 00:57

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Finally got this working. I had to add the php extension for php_com_dotnet.dll. I did this inside php manager in IIS manager. Hope it helps someone else.

answered Apr 22 '13 at 00:57

joeb

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Reading Registry on IIS server with PHP com object not working

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