Reading Writing a MS Word file in PHP

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Is it possible to read and write Word  2003 and 2007  files in PHP without using a COM object  I know that I can    file   fopen  c  file doc    w     fwrite  file   text   fclose      but Word will read it as an HTML file not a native  doc file

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Most probably you won t be able to read Word documents without COM   Writing was covered in this topic

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even i m working on same kind of project  An Onlinw Word Processor   But i ve choosen c  net and ASP net  But through the survey i did  i got to know that      By Using Open XML SDK and VSTO  Visual Studio Tools For Office    we may easily work with a word file manipulate them and even convert internally to different into several formats such as  odt  pdf  docx etc       So  goto msdn microsoft com and be thorough about the office development tab  Its the easiest way to do this as all functions we need to implement are already available in  net     But as u want to do ur project in PHP  u can do it in Visual Studio and  net as PHP is also one of the  net Compliant Language

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Reading binary Word documents would involve creating a parser according to the published file format specifications for the DOC format  I think this is no real feasible solution   You could use the Microsoft Office XML formats for reading and writing Word files - this is compatible with the 2003 and 2007 version of Word  For reading you have to ensure that the Word documents are saved in the correct format  it s called Word 2003 XML-Document in Word 2007   For writing you just have to follow the openly available XML schema  I ve never used this format for writing out Office documents from PHP  but I m using it for reading in an Excel worksheet  naturally saved as XML-Spreadsheet 2003  and displaying its data on a web page  As the files are plainly XML data it s no problem to navigate within and figure out how to extract the data you need   The other option - a Word 2007 only option  if the OpenXML file formats are not installed in your Word 2003  - would be to ressort to OpenXML  As databyss pointed out here the DOCX file format is just a ZIP archive with XML files included  There are a lot of resources on MSDN regarding the OpenXML file format  so you should be able to figure out how to read the data you want  Writing will be much more complicated I think - it just depends on how much time you ll invest   Perhaps you can have a look at PHPExcel which is a library able to write to Excel 2007 files and read from Excel 2007 files using the OpenXML standard  You could get an idea of the work involved when trying to read and write OpenXML Word documents

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Just updating the code   lt  php                                                                     This approach uses detection of NUL  chr 00   and end line  chr 13   to decide where the text is  - divide the file contents up by chr 13  - reject any slices containing a NUL - stitch the rest together again - clean up with a regular expression                                                                     function parseWord  userDoc          fileHandle   fopen  userDoc   r         word text    fread  fileHandle  filesize  userDoc         line            tam   filesize  userDoc        nulos   0       caracteres   0      for  i 1536   i lt  tam   i                   line     word text  i            if   word text  i     0                         nulos                      else                        nulos 0               caracteres                       if   nulos gt 1996                           break                           echo  caracteres        lines   explode chr 0x0D   line          outtext     lt pre gt          outtext           foreach  lines as  thisline                 tam   strlen  thisline           if    tam                         continue                      new line                for  i 0   i lt  tam   i                           onechar    thisline  i               if   onechar  gt  chr 240                                  continue                             if   onechar  gt   chr 0x20                                   caracteres                     new line     onechar                             if   onechar    chr 0x14                                   new line      lt  a gt                               if   onechar    chr 0x07                                   new line      t                   if  isset  thisline  i 1                                           if   thisline  i 1     chr 0x07                                                   new line      n                                                                             troca por hiperlink          new line   str replace  HYPERLINK     lt a href    new line             new line   str replace   o     gt    new line             new line      n              link de imagens          new line   str replace  INCLUDEPICTURE     lt br gt  lt img src    new line             new line   str replace         gt  lt br gt    new line             new line   str replace  MERGEFORMATINET       new line               outtext    nl2br  new line           return  outtext       userDoc    custo doc    userDoc    Cultura doc    text   parseWord  userDoc    echo  text      gt

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Just updating the code   lt  php                                                                     This approach uses detection of NUL  chr 00   and end line  chr 13   to decide where the text is  - divide the file contents up by chr 13  - reject any slices containing a NUL - stitch the rest together again - clean up with a regular expression                                                                     function parseWord  userDoc          fileHandle   fopen  userDoc   r         word text    fread  fileHandle  filesize  userDoc         line            tam   filesize  userDoc        nulos   0       caracteres   0      for  i 1536   i lt  tam   i                   line     word text  i            if   word text  i     0                         nulos                      else                        nulos 0               caracteres                       if   nulos gt 1996                           break                           echo  caracteres        lines   explode chr 0x0D   line          outtext     lt pre gt          outtext           foreach  lines as  thisline                 tam   strlen  thisline           if    tam                         continue                      new line                for  i 0   i lt  tam   i                           onechar    thisline  i               if   onechar  gt  chr 240                                  continue                             if   onechar  gt   chr 0x20                                   caracteres                     new line     onechar                             if   onechar    chr 0x14                                   new line      lt  a gt                               if   onechar    chr 0x07                                   new line      t                   if  isset  thisline  i 1                                           if   thisline  i 1     chr 0x07                                                   new line      n                                                                             troca por hiperlink          new line   str replace  HYPERLINK     lt a href    new line             new line   str replace   o     gt    new line             new line      n              link de imagens          new line   str replace  INCLUDEPICTURE     lt br gt  lt img src    new line             new line   str replace         gt  lt br gt    new line             new line   str replace  MERGEFORMATINET       new line               outtext    nl2br  new line           return  outtext       userDoc    custo doc    userDoc    Cultura doc    text   parseWord  userDoc    echo  text      gt

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I don t know what you are going to use it for  but I needed  doc support for search indexing  What I did was use a little commandline tool called  catdoc   This transfers the contents of the Word document to plain text so it can be indexed  If you need to keep formatting and stuff this is not your tool

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Most probably you won t be able to read Word documents without COM   Writing was covered in this topic

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You can use Antiword  it is a free MS Word reader for Linux and most popular OS    document file    c  file doc    text from doc   shell exec   usr local bin antiword    document file

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I don t know what you are going to use it for  but I needed  doc support for search indexing  What I did was use a little commandline tool called  catdoc   This transfers the contents of the Word document to plain text so it can be indexed  If you need to keep formatting and stuff this is not your tool

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www phplivedocx org is a SOAP based service that means that you always need to be online for testing the Files also does not have enough examples for its use   Strangely I found only after 2 days of downloading  requires additionaly zend framework too  that its a SOAP based program cursed me        I think without COM its just not possible on a Linux server and the only idea is to change the doc file in another usable file which PHP can parse

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2007 might be a bit complicated as well   The  docx format is a zip file that contains a few folders with other files in them for formatting and other stuff   Rename a  docx file to  zip and you ll see what I mean   So if you can work within zip files in PHP  you should be on the right path

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Would the  rtf format work for your purposes   rtf can easily be converted to and from  doc format  but it is written in plaintext  with control commands embedded   This is how I plan to integrate my application with Word documents

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One  way to manipulate Word files with PHP that you may find interesting is with the help of PHPDocX  You may see how it works having a look at its online tutorial  You can insert or extract contents or even merge multiple Word files into a asingle one

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Office 2007  docx should be possible since it s an XML standard   Word 2003 most likely requires COM to read  even with the standards now published by MS  since those standards are huge   I haven t seen many libraries written to match them yet

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2007 might be a bit complicated as well   The  docx format is a zip file that contains a few folders with other files in them for formatting and other stuff   Rename a  docx file to  zip and you ll see what I mean   So if you can work within zip files in PHP  you should be on the right path

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Source gotten from     Use following class directly to read word document   class DocxConversion      private  filename       public function   construct  filePath             this- gt filename    filePath             private function read doc              fileHandle   fopen  this- gt filename   r             line    fread  fileHandle  filesize  this- gt filename                lines   explode chr 0x0D   line            outtext               foreach  lines as  thisline                           pos   strpos  thisline  chr 0x00                if    pos     FALSE    strlen  thisline   0                                   else                    outtext     thisline                                            outtext   preg replace     a-zA-Z0-9 s     - n r t                 outtext           return  outtext             private function read docx              striped content                content                 zip   zip open  this- gt filename            if    zip    is numeric  zip   return false           while   zip entry   zip read  zip                  if  zip entry open  zip   zip entry     FALSE  continue               if  zip entry name  zip entry      word document xml   continue                content    zip entry read  zip entry  zip entry filesize  zip entry                 zip entry close  zip entry               end while          zip close  zip             content   str replace   lt  w r gt  lt  w p gt  lt  w tc gt  lt w tc gt          content            content   str replace   lt  w r gt  lt  w p gt      r n    content            striped content   strip tags  content            return  striped content                                   excel sheet                                       function xlsx to text  input file        xml filename    xl sharedStrings xml     content file name      zip handle   new ZipArchive       output text           if true      zip handle- gt open  input file            if   xml index    zip handle- gt locateName  xml filename       false                xml datas    zip handle- gt getFromIndex  xml index                xml handle   DOMDocument  loadXML  xml datas  LIBXML NOENT   LIBXML XINCLUDE   LIBXML NOERROR   LIBXML NOWARNING                output text   strip tags  xml handle- gt saveXML              else               output text                          zip handle- gt close         else       output text                 return  output text                               power point files                               function pptx to text  input file        zip handle   new ZipArchive       output text           if true      zip handle- gt open  input file             slide number   1    loop through slide files         while   xml index    zip handle- gt locateName  ppt slides slide   slide number   xml        false                xml datas    zip handle- gt getFromIndex  xml index                xml handle   DOMDocument  loadXML  xml datas  LIBXML NOENT   LIBXML XINCLUDE   LIBXML NOERROR   LIBXML NOWARNING                output text    strip tags  xml handle- gt saveXML                  slide number                      if  slide number    1                output text                          zip handle- gt close         else       output text                 return  output text          public function convertToText              if isset  this- gt filename   amp  amp   file exists  this- gt filename                 return  File Not exists                       fileArray   pathinfo  this- gt filename            file ext     fileArray  extension            if  file ext     doc      file ext     docx      file ext     xlsx      file ext     pptx                         if  file ext     doc                     return  this- gt read doc                  elseif  file ext     docx                     return  this- gt read docx                  elseif  file ext     xlsx                     return  this- gt xlsx to text                 elseif  file ext     pptx                     return  this- gt pptx to text                            else               return  Invalid File Type                        docObj   new DocxConversion  test docx      replace your document name with correct extension doc or docx  echo  docText   docObj- gt convertToText

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this works with vs   lt  office 2007 and its pure PHP  no COM crap  still trying to figure 2007   lt  php                                                                       This approach uses detection of NUL  chr 00   and end line  chr 13   to decide where the text is  - divide the file contents up by chr 13  - reject any slices containing a NUL - stitch the rest together again - clean up with a regular expression                                                                     function parseWord  userDoc          fileHandle   fopen  userDoc   r         line    fread  fileHandle  filesize  userDoc            lines   explode chr 0x0D   line        outtext           foreach  lines as  thisline                   pos   strpos  thisline  chr 0x00            if    pos     FALSE    strlen  thisline   0                           else                outtext     thisline                                outtext   preg replace     a-zA-Z0-9 s     - n r t                 outtext       return  outtext       userDoc    cv doc     text   parseWord  userDoc   echo  text      gt

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phpLiveDocx is a Zend Framework component and can read and write DOC and DOCX files in PHP on Linux  Windows and Mac   See the project web site at   http   www phplivedocx org

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I don t know what you are going to use it for  but I needed  doc support for search indexing  What I did was use a little commandline tool called  catdoc   This transfers the contents of the Word document to plain text so it can be indexed  If you need to keep formatting and stuff this is not your tool

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this works with vs   lt  office 2007 and its pure PHP  no COM crap  still trying to figure 2007   lt  php                                                                       This approach uses detection of NUL  chr 00   and end line  chr 13   to decide where the text is  - divide the file contents up by chr 13  - reject any slices containing a NUL - stitch the rest together again - clean up with a regular expression                                                                     function parseWord  userDoc          fileHandle   fopen  userDoc   r         line    fread  fileHandle  filesize  userDoc            lines   explode chr 0x0D   line        outtext           foreach  lines as  thisline                   pos   strpos  thisline  chr 0x00            if    pos     FALSE    strlen  thisline   0                           else                outtext     thisline                                outtext   preg replace     a-zA-Z0-9 s     - n r t                 outtext       return  outtext       userDoc    cv doc     text   parseWord  userDoc   echo  text      gt

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Office 2007  docx should be possible since it s an XML standard   Word 2003 most likely requires COM to read  even with the standards now published by MS  since those standards are huge   I haven t seen many libraries written to match them yet

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I don t know about reading native Word documents in PHP  but if you want to write a Word document in PHP  WordprocessingML  aka WordML  might be a good solution  All you have to do is create an XML document in the correct format  I believe Word 2003 and 2007 both support WordML

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Most probably you won t be able to read Word documents without COM   Writing was covered in this topic

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Would the  rtf format work for your purposes   rtf can easily be converted to and from  doc format  but it is written in plaintext  with control commands embedded   This is how I plan to integrate my application with Word documents

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this works with vs   lt  office 2007 and its pure PHP  no COM crap  still trying to figure 2007   lt  php                                                                       This approach uses detection of NUL  chr 00   and end line  chr 13   to decide where the text is  - divide the file contents up by chr 13  - reject any slices containing a NUL - stitch the rest together again - clean up with a regular expression                                                                     function parseWord  userDoc          fileHandle   fopen  userDoc   r         line    fread  fileHandle  filesize  userDoc            lines   explode chr 0x0D   line        outtext           foreach  lines as  thisline                   pos   strpos  thisline  chr 0x00            if    pos     FALSE    strlen  thisline   0                           else                outtext     thisline                                outtext   preg replace     a-zA-Z0-9 s     - n r t                 outtext       return  outtext       userDoc    cv doc     text   parseWord  userDoc   echo  text      gt

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I don t know about reading native Word documents in PHP  but if you want to write a Word document in PHP  WordprocessingML  aka WordML  might be a good solution  All you have to do is create an XML document in the correct format  I believe Word 2003 and 2007 both support WordML

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You can use Antiword  it is a free MS Word reader for Linux and most popular OS    document file    c  file doc    text from doc   shell exec   usr local bin antiword    document file

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Reading binary Word documents would involve creating a parser according to the published file format specifications for the DOC format  I think this is no real feasible solution   You could use the Microsoft Office XML formats for reading and writing Word files - this is compatible with the 2003 and 2007 version of Word  For reading you have to ensure that the Word documents are saved in the correct format  it s called Word 2003 XML-Document in Word 2007   For writing you just have to follow the openly available XML schema  I ve never used this format for writing out Office documents from PHP  but I m using it for reading in an Excel worksheet  naturally saved as XML-Spreadsheet 2003  and displaying its data on a web page  As the files are plainly XML data it s no problem to navigate within and figure out how to extract the data you need   The other option - a Word 2007 only option  if the OpenXML file formats are not installed in your Word 2003  - would be to ressort to OpenXML  As databyss pointed out here the DOCX file format is just a ZIP archive with XML files included  There are a lot of resources on MSDN regarding the OpenXML file format  so you should be able to figure out how to read the data you want  Writing will be much more complicated I think - it just depends on how much time you ll invest   Perhaps you can have a look at PHPExcel which is a library able to write to Excel 2007 files and read from Excel 2007 files using the OpenXML standard  You could get an idea of the work involved when trying to read and write OpenXML Word documents

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I have the same case I guess I am going to use a cheap 50 mega windows based hosting with free domain to use it to convert my files on  for PHP server  And linking them is easy  All you need is make an ASP NET page that recieves the doc file via post and replies it via HTTP so simple CURL would do it

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Source gotten from     Use following class directly to read word document   class DocxConversion      private  filename       public function   construct  filePath             this- gt filename    filePath             private function read doc              fileHandle   fopen  this- gt filename   r             line    fread  fileHandle  filesize  this- gt filename                lines   explode chr 0x0D   line            outtext               foreach  lines as  thisline                           pos   strpos  thisline  chr 0x00                if    pos     FALSE    strlen  thisline   0                                   else                    outtext     thisline                                            outtext   preg replace     a-zA-Z0-9 s     - n r t                 outtext           return  outtext             private function read docx              striped content                content                 zip   zip open  this- gt filename            if    zip    is numeric  zip   return false           while   zip entry   zip read  zip                  if  zip entry open  zip   zip entry     FALSE  continue               if  zip entry name  zip entry      word document xml   continue                content    zip entry read  zip entry  zip entry filesize  zip entry                 zip entry close  zip entry               end while          zip close  zip             content   str replace   lt  w r gt  lt  w p gt  lt  w tc gt  lt w tc gt          content            content   str replace   lt  w r gt  lt  w p gt      r n    content            striped content   strip tags  content            return  striped content                                   excel sheet                                       function xlsx to text  input file        xml filename    xl sharedStrings xml     content file name      zip handle   new ZipArchive       output text           if true      zip handle- gt open  input file            if   xml index    zip handle- gt locateName  xml filename       false                xml datas    zip handle- gt getFromIndex  xml index                xml handle   DOMDocument  loadXML  xml datas  LIBXML NOENT   LIBXML XINCLUDE   LIBXML NOERROR   LIBXML NOWARNING                output text   strip tags  xml handle- gt saveXML              else               output text                          zip handle- gt close         else       output text                 return  output text                               power point files                               function pptx to text  input file        zip handle   new ZipArchive       output text           if true      zip handle- gt open  input file             slide number   1    loop through slide files         while   xml index    zip handle- gt locateName  ppt slides slide   slide number   xml        false                xml datas    zip handle- gt getFromIndex  xml index                xml handle   DOMDocument  loadXML  xml datas  LIBXML NOENT   LIBXML XINCLUDE   LIBXML NOERROR   LIBXML NOWARNING                output text    strip tags  xml handle- gt saveXML                  slide number                      if  slide number    1                output text                          zip handle- gt close         else       output text                 return  output text          public function convertToText              if isset  this- gt filename   amp  amp   file exists  this- gt filename                 return  File Not exists                       fileArray   pathinfo  this- gt filename            file ext     fileArray  extension            if  file ext     doc      file ext     docx      file ext     xlsx      file ext     pptx                         if  file ext     doc                     return  this- gt read doc                  elseif  file ext     docx                     return  this- gt read docx                  elseif  file ext     xlsx                     return  this- gt xlsx to text                 elseif  file ext     pptx                     return  this- gt pptx to text                            else               return  Invalid File Type                        docObj   new DocxConversion  test docx      replace your document name with correct extension doc or docx  echo  docText   docObj- gt convertToText

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Office 2007  docx should be possible since it s an XML standard   Word 2003 most likely requires COM to read  even with the standards now published by MS  since those standards are huge   I haven t seen many libraries written to match them yet

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Reading binary Word documents would involve creating a parser according to the published file format specifications for the DOC format  I think this is no real feasible solution   You could use the Microsoft Office XML formats for reading and writing Word files - this is compatible with the 2003 and 2007 version of Word  For reading you have to ensure that the Word documents are saved in the correct format  it s called Word 2003 XML-Document in Word 2007   For writing you just have to follow the openly available XML schema  I ve never used this format for writing out Office documents from PHP  but I m using it for reading in an Excel worksheet  naturally saved as XML-Spreadsheet 2003  and displaying its data on a web page  As the files are plainly XML data it s no problem to navigate within and figure out how to extract the data you need   The other option - a Word 2007 only option  if the OpenXML file formats are not installed in your Word 2003  - would be to ressort to OpenXML  As databyss pointed out here the DOCX file format is just a ZIP archive with XML files included  There are a lot of resources on MSDN regarding the OpenXML file format  so you should be able to figure out how to read the data you want  Writing will be much more complicated I think - it just depends on how much time you ll invest   Perhaps you can have a look at PHPExcel which is a library able to write to Excel 2007 files and read from Excel 2007 files using the OpenXML standard  You could get an idea of the work involved when trying to read and write OpenXML Word documents

User · Answer

Most probably you won t be able to read Word documents without COM   Writing was covered in this topic

User · Answer

I don t know about reading native Word documents in PHP  but if you want to write a Word document in PHP  WordprocessingML  aka WordML  might be a good solution  All you have to do is create an XML document in the correct format  I believe Word 2003 and 2007 both support WordML

User · Answer

I don t know about reading native Word documents in PHP  but if you want to write a Word document in PHP  WordprocessingML  aka WordML  might be a good solution  All you have to do is create an XML document in the correct format  I believe Word 2003 and 2007 both support WordML

User · Answer

One  way to manipulate Word files with PHP that you may find interesting is with the help of PHPDocX  You may see how it works having a look at its online tutorial  You can insert or extract contents or even merge multiple Word files into a asingle one

User · Answer

2007 might be a bit complicated as well   The  docx format is a zip file that contains a few folders with other files in them for formatting and other stuff   Rename a  docx file to  zip and you ll see what I mean   So if you can work within zip files in PHP  you should be on the right path

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even i m working on same kind of project  An Onlinw Word Processor   But i ve choosen c  net and ASP net  But through the survey i did  i got to know that      By Using Open XML SDK and VSTO  Visual Studio Tools For Office    we may easily work with a word file manipulate them and even convert internally to different into several formats such as  odt  pdf  docx etc       So  goto msdn microsoft com and be thorough about the office development tab  Its the easiest way to do this as all functions we need to implement are already available in  net     But as u want to do ur project in PHP  u can do it in Visual Studio and  net as PHP is also one of the  net Compliant Language

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Would the  rtf format work for your purposes   rtf can easily be converted to and from  doc format  but it is written in plaintext  with control commands embedded   This is how I plan to integrate my application with Word documents

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this works with vs   lt  office 2007 and its pure PHP  no COM crap  still trying to figure 2007   lt  php                                                                       This approach uses detection of NUL  chr 00   and end line  chr 13   to decide where the text is  - divide the file contents up by chr 13  - reject any slices containing a NUL - stitch the rest together again - clean up with a regular expression                                                                     function parseWord  userDoc          fileHandle   fopen  userDoc   r         line    fread  fileHandle  filesize  userDoc            lines   explode chr 0x0D   line        outtext           foreach  lines as  thisline                   pos   strpos  thisline  chr 0x00            if    pos     FALSE    strlen  thisline   0                           else                outtext     thisline                                outtext   preg replace     a-zA-Z0-9 s     - n r t                 outtext       return  outtext       userDoc    cv doc     text   parseWord  userDoc   echo  text      gt

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Office 2007  docx should be possible since it s an XML standard   Word 2003 most likely requires COM to read  even with the standards now published by MS  since those standards are huge   I haven t seen many libraries written to match them yet

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Would the  rtf format work for your purposes   rtf can easily be converted to and from  doc format  but it is written in plaintext  with control commands embedded   This is how I plan to integrate my application with Word documents

User · Answer

2007 might be a bit complicated as well   The  docx format is a zip file that contains a few folders with other files in them for formatting and other stuff   Rename a  docx file to  zip and you ll see what I mean   So if you can work within zip files in PHP  you should be on the right path

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www phplivedocx org is a SOAP based service that means that you always need to be online for testing the Files also does not have enough examples for its use   Strangely I found only after 2 days of downloading  requires additionaly zend framework too  that its a SOAP based program cursed me        I think without COM its just not possible on a Linux server and the only idea is to change the doc file in another usable file which PHP can parse

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I have the same case I guess I am going to use a cheap 50 mega windows based hosting with free domain to use it to convert my files on  for PHP server  And linking them is easy  All you need is make an ASP NET page that recieves the doc file via post and replies it via HTTP so simple CURL would do it

User · Answer

Reading binary Word documents would involve creating a parser according to the published file format specifications for the DOC format  I think this is no real feasible solution   You could use the Microsoft Office XML formats for reading and writing Word files - this is compatible with the 2003 and 2007 version of Word  For reading you have to ensure that the Word documents are saved in the correct format  it s called Word 2003 XML-Document in Word 2007   For writing you just have to follow the openly available XML schema  I ve never used this format for writing out Office documents from PHP  but I m using it for reading in an Excel worksheet  naturally saved as XML-Spreadsheet 2003  and displaying its data on a web page  As the files are plainly XML data it s no problem to navigate within and figure out how to extract the data you need   The other option - a Word 2007 only option  if the OpenXML file formats are not installed in your Word 2003  - would be to ressort to OpenXML  As databyss pointed out here the DOCX file format is just a ZIP archive with XML files included  There are a lot of resources on MSDN regarding the OpenXML file format  so you should be able to figure out how to read the data you want  Writing will be much more complicated I think - it just depends on how much time you ll invest   Perhaps you can have a look at PHPExcel which is a library able to write to Excel 2007 files and read from Excel 2007 files using the OpenXML standard  You could get an idea of the work involved when trying to read and write OpenXML Word documents

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phpLiveDocx is a Zend Framework component and can read and write DOC and DOCX files in PHP on Linux  Windows and Mac   See the project web site at   http   www phplivedocx org

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I don t know what you are going to use it for  but I needed  doc support for search indexing  What I did was use a little commandline tool called  catdoc   This transfers the contents of the Word document to plain text so it can be indexed  If you need to keep formatting and stuff this is not your tool

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