Problems generating word documents on server side for security reasons

[JonnySnakes]

I have a problem with word documentation generation when generating a word document (docx) with PHP. I am doing this for security reasons, as I do not want people to be able to directly access a file with urls, so I store the files above the web root and they are generated on the server side on demand. Here is my code for manually testing file generation of a .docx file ( a Word 2007 file ):

 

$path = "../../uploads_productionization/file_for_category_1_tab_2/adsfdafds.docx

 

// We'll be outputting a docx

header( 'Content-type: application/vnd.openxmlformats & -officedocument.wordprocessingml.document.main+xml');

 

// It will be called downloaded.docx

header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="downloaded.docx"');

 

// The word source is in adsfdafds.docx

readfile($path);

 

 

When I execute this code, ie when I manually generate a docx file, I get two error messages:

 

"The Open Office XML document cannot be opened because there are problems with the contents"

Details: "File is corrupt and cannot be opened"

 

Next message:

"Word found unreadable content in downloaded.docx. Do you want to recover the contents of this document? If so, please click Yes"

 

When I click Yes on the second message, the document opens. Sometimes the file is okay, sometimes it isn't when there are pictures and formatting and so on and so forth.

 

Anyone have a solution for this problem? Been trying to get around this for at least a week...

 

P.S. All other files, PDFs, text files, work fine.. I think it's just office documents.

:'( :-\

 

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[PFMaBiSmAd]

Open the file using an ASCII programming editor and see if there are any php generated error messages in it, either at the start or end of the file.

[JonnySnakes]

Thank you for your reply. Any recommendations for ASCII programming edtiors? Anything specific I should be searching for? No luck so far..

 

 

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Umm. What editor are you using to create php code?

 

I worded that the way it is so that you would not attempt to open the file with a native Word editor.

[JonnySnakes]

I am using JEdit to create PHP code.

 

I open the file in that editor, or other ASCII editors, I'm not sure how to look for an error when I'm looking at the contents on an ASCII file.

 

Any suggestions? Want the file?

 

Thanks!

 

[JonnySnakes]

Okay, I have posted this issue on a few forums and I haven't got any real response yet, so maybe it's a problem of phrasing the questions.. here goes nothing:

 

I want to store files in a directory above the web root, so that files are not directly accessible through urls. To do this, I put them in the htdocs folder and I generate the headers for the file when a user wishes to securely access a file. The problem is, I can't seem to figure out how to generate office 2007 documents. I've scoured the net, but to no avail... this must be fairly common, to want to have your files secure and not be url accessible. Anyone done this before?

 

Thank you in advance!