Problem with opening .doc with php using COM

[WillyTheFish]

Hey guys,

 

I've been searching the forum, but haven't found a post describing the following problem:

I want to Open and Manipulate a word document using the COM class. This is my code so far:

 

$Wrd = new COM("Word.Application");
$DocName = TEMPLATE_DIR.'template.doc';
$Wrd->Application->Visible = True;
$WrdDoc = $Wrd->Documents->Open(realpath($DocName));

# do something here

$WrdDoc->SaveAs(realpath($DocName));
$Wrd->ActiveDocument->Close(false);
$Wrd->Quit();	
$Wrd = NULL;

 

There's no problem creating the COM-object, but when i try

$WrdDoc = $Wrd->Documents->Open(realpath($DocName));

the browser is either complaining about insufficient memory or will chew on the code for ages...

I can see that a temporary word file is created, so it seems that the document has been opened... still, the browser is working and working....

 

can anyone tell me what's going on?

Many Thanks!

 

 

 

[WillyTheFish]

anyone... please? =(

[WillyTheFish]

yeah it's me again....

 

now I downloaded and tried this script/class and left it unchanged... still doesn't work:

http://www.phpclasses.org/package/3553-PHP-Edit-Microsoft-Word-documents-using-COM-objects.html

 

there must be something wrong with my php-settings or my ms Word installation i guess?

COM is enabled in phpinfo()!

 

Any suggestions....? I really need to get this to work

thanks!