read a word document

[tecdesign]

I need to count the number of words in a microsoft word document. I have search the internet and so far no good. Anyone have any ideas?

[tecdesign]

This is suppose to be  a way

 

$word = new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to instantiate Word");
$word->Documents->Open($filename);
$new_filename = substr($filename,0,-4) . ".txt";
// the '2' parameter specifies saving in txt format
$word->Documents[1]->SaveAs($new_filename,2);
$word->Documents[1]->Close(false);
$word->Quit();
$word->Release();
$word = NULL;
unset($word);

$fh = fopen($new_filename, 'r');
// this is where we exit Hell
$contents = fread($fh, filesize($new_filename));
fclose($fh);
unlink($new_filename);

 

But I keep getting the error

 

Cannot instantiate non-existent class: com in public_html/editor/word_count.php on line 28

 

Anyone know how to use the above code.

[tecdesign]

Ok after reading the COM section on php.net. You need to run php on a windows server for the COM classes to work.