problems with COM object for reading MS word.

[epezhman]

Hi, I'm trying to read a MS word doc, I found these code on a blog which uses COM , but when I run this PHP code I get an exception :

 

"

com_exception Object ( [message:protected] => Source: Microsoft Word

Description: The requested member of the collection does not exist. [string:Exception:private] =>

[code:protected] => -2147352567 [file:protected] => C:\wamp\www\PhpProject1\index.php [line:protected] => 31 [trace:Exception:private] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [file] => C:\wamp\www\PhpProject1\index.php [line] => 31 [function] => unknown ) ) [previous:Exception:private] => )

"
here is the code

$filename="cv.doc";
$TXTfilename = $filename . ".txt";

$word = new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to instantiate Word object");
$word->Documents->Open($filename);

// the '2' parameter specifies saving in txt format
$word->Documents[1]->SaveAs($TXTfilename ,2);
$word->Documents[1]->Close(false);
$word->Quit();
$word->Release();
$word = NULL;
unset($word);

$content = file_get_contents($TXTfilename);
unlink($TXTfilename);

 

 

I read from here  " http://ir2.php.net/manual/en/com.installation.php " that I don't need to install COM but I need to install some COM objects like for MS word doc, but I don't know how to fix it, any idea? thanks in advance

 

[nafetski]

Unfortunately those error messages are a bit vague.  When you're debugging - can you pinpoint at which line of code is throwing the error? 

[epezhman]

here it is :

 

exception 'com_exception' with message 'Source: Microsoft Word

Description: The requested member of the collection does not exist.' in C:\wamp\www\PhpProject1\index.php:29 Stack trace: #0 C:\wamp\www\PhpProject1\index.php(29): unknown() #1 {main}

 

these line I guess :

$word->Documents[1]->SaveAs($TXTfilename ,2);

$word->Documents[1]->Close(false);

[lastkarrde]

Should it be Documents[0] ? Isn't there only one item in the array?

[epezhman]

I changed it yo zero, but still doesn't work.

[epezhman]

does it mean I don't have the word.application COM?

[lastkarrde]

Either that, or it can't find the file your trying to open.

[therob1]

i used similar coding to, but to add in some extra content to the word document using bookmarks. However, I commented out one line and it appeared to fix the problem for me - maybe it will work for you?

 

$word->Quit();

//$word->Release();

$word = null;

 

when i checked task manager afterwards I could see that word had exited correctly and ive not fully built a solution around what I intend to use this for so i dont know if there are any implications for doing this - maybe someone else will expand upon this?

[epezhman]

i used similar coding to, but to add in some extra content to the word document using bookmarks. However, I commented out one line and it appeared to fix the problem for me - maybe it will work for you?

 

$word->Quit();

//$word->Release();

$word = null;

 

when i checked task manager afterwards I could see that word had exited correctly and ive not fully built a solution around what I intend to use this for so i dont know if there are any implications for doing this - maybe someone else will expand upon this?

 

thanks for the reply .I tried it but it didn't work. I think it could't open the .doc file at all. when I write

echo count($word->Documents);

it just print 1, which means It doesn't open the doc file. I guess that create the COM application but can't open the the file. I tried it with different version of MS word and even windows OS but the same result. any more ideas? thanks

[lastkarrde]

Are you providing the full path to the file? (C:\\Users\\name\\file.doc sort of thing)

[epezhman]

Are you providing the full path to the file? (C:\\Users\\name\\file.doc sort of thing)

thanks for mentioning that but didn't working neither. I put the file in project folder so I guess that wouldn't be a problem.

[therob1]

i did read somewhere that its default location for word was somewhere weird, i maybe wrong, but it might be worth double checking the path, i hard coded my path to avoid any doubt during testing and i used forward slashes instead "c:/mydoc.doc"