open and get contents of a word document with PHP?

[ohdang888]

I am running PHP 5 on a linux server.

 

I want to be able to open a .doc or .docx file with PHP (or any way possible, for that matter) in order to grab the contents from it. How can i do this? I know COM classes work with windows for this, but i have linux.

 

Any ideas are greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks.

[Rifts]

I just googled this I have no idea if it works or not.

<?php

$filename = './12345.doc';
if ( file_exists($filename) ) {

if ( ($fh = fopen($filename, 'r')) !== false ) {

$headers = fread($fh, 0xA00);

# 1 = (ord(n)*1) ; Document has from 0 to 255 characters
$n1 = ( ord($headers[0x21C]) - 1 );

# 1 = ((ord(n)-*256) ; Document has from 256 to 63743 characters
$n2 = ( ( ord($headers[0x21D]) - 8 ) * 256 );

# 1 = ((ord(n)*256)*256) ; Document has from 63744 to 16775423 characters
$n3 = ( ( ord($headers[0x21E]) * 256 ) * 256 );

# (((ord(n)*256)*256)*256) ; Document has from 16775424 to 4294965504 characters
$n4 = ( ( ( ord($headers[0x21F]) * 256 ) * 256 ) * 256 );

# Total length of text in the document
$textLength = ($n1 + $n2 + $n3 + $n4);

$extracted_plaintext = fread($fh, $textLength);

# if you want the plain text with no formatting, do this
echo $extracted_plaintext;

# if you want to see your paragraphs in a web page, do this
echo nl2br($extracted_plaintext);

}

}

?>

 

[ohdang888]

thanks for responding!

 

That script works, but it doesn't preserve formatting (underlines, bold, etc.)

 

Any ideas?

[Rifts]

what happens if you remove this line from the code

 

echo $extracted_plaintext;

[ohdang888]

what happens if you remove this line from the code

 

echo $extracted_plaintext;

Ya i played around with it. It doesn't have the formatting at all.