[SOLVED] word document decoding with php

[Ninjakreborn]

There is a way to take a text file and display it on a screen rather easily.

Is there anyway at all, to take a word document, and open it in the browser like you can do with a text file.  Like click on the file and it shows on the screen.

Same with php pages, and/or xhtml pages.  Is there a way to have them just output on the screen (mostly word documents).

 

Thanks.

 

[redarrow]

pdf i no of but nothink else my option.

[effigy]

You can open just about anything if you have the right headers. Notice the use of "application/msword" in this post.

[Ninjakreborn]

I didn't undertand what you meant, let me rephrase the question.

 

I know for a fact that .txt, .php, .htm, .html, .js, and .css files can be setup to where when someone clicks the filename, it comes up and displays all the text inside the file on the screen.  Like it was general text on a page.  I know this is possible nad have even done it.  However I was wondering about .doc files.  Can someone do the same thing with a .doc file, because using

fread

and just echoing the information (which works with the other filetypes) doesn't work with word document files.  Is there another method (even a long workaround) that does allow you to do this.

[Ninjakreborn]

Ah ok, so you just open the file, then you dynamically insert the header to have it display to the page.  That makes sense, thanks.