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i have a small problem to read word file using php

Asked by: srinut31

dear friends ,
                        how can i read a wordfile(.doc) using php . i had  excel redear i can read form that all contant

                  can any one help me

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by: den4bPosted on 2008-02-08 at 03:11:00ID: 20849151

There are few open source tools on the net which can extract pure text from most of the MS Office formats. You can use them from within PHP to parse *.doc files.

* catdoc: http://wagner.pp.ru/~vitus/software/catdoc/
* word2x: http://word2x.sourceforge.net/

Both of these come as C/C++ source code, but catdoc has a complied version for DOS Real-Time mode, which runs fine on Windows.

* catdoc for DOS: http://ftp.wagner.pp.ru/pub/catdoc/catdoc-0.94.2.zip

(make sure you read the notes, for example: catdoc does not support long names, etc.)

 

by: srinut31Posted on 2008-02-08 at 03:18:55ID: 20849189

Thanks for your replay  i need to read a .doc file using php code

 

by: GuanoFunPosted on 2008-02-08 at 04:42:43ID: 20849596

Pretty sure you can't do that, since php has no way of recognizing Microsoft document filies directly.

 

by: srinut31Posted on 2008-02-08 at 04:51:02ID: 20849632

is it possible to ajax to do

 

by: GuanoFunPosted on 2008-02-08 at 05:02:07ID: 20849678

well... you can always install something like den4b told you and execute it silently with php

 

by: den4bPosted on 2008-02-08 at 05:28:39ID: 20849849

You can use those tools (listed above) in PHP, via program execution functions:

http://php.net/exec

string exec ( string $command [, array &$output [, int &$return_var ]] )
string system ( string $command [, int &$return_var ] )
string shell_exec ( string $cmd )

Example below will print out the textual contents of "example.doc":

exec("catdoc.exe example.doc", $output);
echo $output;

                                              
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by: den4bPosted on 2008-02-08 at 05:35:34ID: 20849890

I use this exec method in PHP to index content of PDF, DOC, PPT files. Works perfectly. I doubt that you will ever find something pure-PHP based, that can extract content of *.doc files, because I've been looking for such code for a very long time without any luck.

 

by: logudotcomPosted on 2008-02-23 at 21:30:21ID: 20968831

You could not straight read and use the Ms-Word documents.... because you cannot identify the structure of the word document... better I would suggest to use XML way to read the data from the word file..   convert it into XML file then read the data ... that will give exact data to read ....

 

by: srinut31Posted on 2008-02-24 at 20:15:44ID: 20972866

hey logudotcom: can you explain  how can i do using XML .   So I can understand .

 

by: logudotcomPosted on 2008-02-24 at 20:47:27ID: 20972984

just save as the .doc ... into .xml ... then read the xml file through php...

 

by: logudotcomPosted on 2008-02-24 at 20:50:42ID: 20972994

if you don't have formatting in the .doc ... just save as .txt file... and read the contents.

 

by: logudotcomPosted on 2008-02-24 at 21:01:33ID: 20973028

It is better to consider do you really want to read the .doc file ... because it is very risky to read through php and process the .doc details... as php doesn't give full support functions to parse the .doc details... only read / open / close .doc file facility is  available...

 

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by: logudotcomPosted on 2008-03-19 at 23:26:19ID: 21168717

Possible solution was given to this question...

 

by: srinut31Posted on 2008-03-20 at 00:38:25ID: 21168925

Dear logudotcom,
                                There is problem with reading .doc format its supports COM+  services .Unix does not  have that services i think . still am searching  for that  only.  
                   

 

by: den4bPosted on 2008-03-20 at 08:14:21ID: 21172334

The only 100% working solution for extracting content of DOC files is to use command line tools, like catdoc.exe, as demonstrated in my previous posts.

 

by: GuanoFunPosted on 2008-03-20 at 08:19:21ID: 21172398

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