Thanks for your replay i need to read a .doc file using php code
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how can i read a wordfile(.doc) using php . i had excel redear i can read form that all contant
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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":
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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.
/software/ catdoc/ net/
b/catdoc/c atdoc-0.94 .2.zip
* catdoc: http://wagner.pp.ru/~vitus
* word2x: http://word2x.sourceforge.
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/pu
(make sure you read the notes, for example: catdoc does not support long names, etc.)