COM and DOTNET are not available by default in PHP Core, php.ini. You have to manually add COM support to PHP if you face issue. Typically, you get an error message as
fatal error uncaught error class ‘com’ not found in php
Step 1.Copy php_com_dotnet.dll located in xampp\php\ext folder to c:/windows/system32/
Step 2.Add following to php.ini file located in xampp\php folder
[COM_DOT_NET]
extension=php_com_dotnet.dll
extension = c:/windows/system32/php_com_dotnet.dll
Step 3.Restart Apache Services
