PHP talking to VB

I need to make a connection from a webserver running php to
a NT Server running a VB Programm (it has to be VB because
its using a special VBX).
The Weberver has to send data to the VB Program and get its
answer.
Anybody can advice how to do this?

Chris

Lots of ways. We chose to do it with tcp sockets. From vb we use the winsock control, from php fsockopen.

You just need to come up with your own protocol so they can talk. Our's is quite simple, it just passes messages. We use it to convert html pages to .xls files.