Skype4COM is an ActiveX component that represents the Skype API as objects, properties, commands, events and notifications. Skype4COM is used in ActiveX, Visual Studio, Delphi, PHP or JavaScript.

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PHP Skype API wrapper class is a PHP class library to access Skype (on Linux) via its API. With PHP DBus, this class library provides easy-to-use interfaces to manipulate Skype on Linux.

<?php
// Create a Skype4COM object:
$skype = new COM("Skype4COM.Skype");

// Create a sink object:
$sink =& new _ISkypeEvents ();
$sink->convert = $skype->convert();

// Connect to the sink:
com_event_sink($skype, $sink, "_ISkypeEvents");

// Create a conversion object:
$convert = $skype->convert;
$convert->language = "en";

// Start the Skype client, minimized and with no splash screen:
if (!$skype->client()->isRunning()) {
  $skype->client()->start(true, true);
}
?>

Skype Tracer is a Windows (.exe) console-based application that lets you issue text-based Skype Desktop API commands to a running Skype client.

COM is an acronym for Component Object Model; it is an object orientated layer defines a common calling convention that enables to call and interoperate with code written in any other language. Not only can the code be written in any language, but it need not even be part of the same executable; the code can be loaded from a DLL, be found in another process running on the same machine.

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