count number of words in Doc ,Rtf file

[zohaib]

Hi all,

 

I want to count number of words in Doc ,rtf file

 

How can i do this with php?

 

any ideas?

 

[mtoynbee]

I believe you would need to use PHP COM.

 

#Instantiate the Word component.

$word = new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to instantiate Word");

$word->Visible = 1;

$word->Documents->Open("c:/anydocument.doc");
$temp = $word->Dialogs->Item(228);
$temp->Execute();
$numwords = $temp->Words();

echo $numwords;

$word->Quit();

 

Note that this is the only way to get the word count accurately:

$word->ActiveDocument->Words->Count;

Will see all carriage returns and punctuation as words so is wildy innaccurate.

 

http://php.chinaunix.net/manual/zh/ref.com.php