Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class 'COM' not found with PHP 7.2.x

Question

Someone would tell me how to solve this problem?

When I access my local address of my website, it returns this message "Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class 'COM' not found". This message is only returned when I try to use PHP 7.2.1, as I am trying to update the PHP version.

When PHP version 7.1.x is working normally.

I already put the DLL "php_com_dotnet.dll" in PHP ext.

Answer 1

Things have changed in PHP7.2

Extensions in php.ini as

 extension=php_com_dotnet.dll

It was a used format up to PHP7.1, but from PHP7.2 all extensions now use a format like these:

extension=com_dotnet

Without the prefix php_ and without the extension .dll, of course in the folder ./ext should still be keep the names with the formats php_<extensão>.dll or on linux <extensão>.so, but in php.ini (from 7.2 onwards) this is already implicit, ie only the name will already recognize.

Just like in other extensions it must be something like:

extension=mysqli

Instead of:

extension=php_mysqli.dll

And instead of (on Linux and Mac)

extension=mysqli.so

This was probably done to make php.ini more "portable", as described in php.ini of PHP7.2 onwards:

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Dynamic Extensions ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

; If you wish to have an extension loaded automatically, use the following
; syntax:
;
;   extension=modulename
;
; For example:
;
;   extension=mysqli
; 

This PHP7.2 format is used on both Windows and Linux and Mac

Even I always guide in all my answers about the differences of Linux (and Mac), Windows and PHP7.2, for example:

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