RE: [PHP-DB] Re: Searching Documents

2002-02-08 Thread Todd Williamsen
PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 1:51 PM To: 'DL Neil'; Todd Williamsen Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] Re: Searching Documents If "running" meant at the process level and not just installed, then word does not have to be running.COM creates the appr

RE: [PHP-DB] Re: Searching Documents

2002-02-08 Thread Shrock, Court
If "running" meant at the process level and not just installed, then word does not have to be running.COM creates the appropriate instances of whatever is requested via COM. But yes, Word does have to be installed. However, wonder what the wine project could afford this discussion? Maybe yo

Re: [PHP-DB] Re: Searching Documents

2002-02-08 Thread DL Neil
Todd, > Now, if I do COM with PHP, then does this need to be on a Windows > server? Currently it sits on a Linux box. I assume if you are setting up a dynamic connection to Word, Word will have to be running - which almost implies a Windows box. Whether the COM component/add-on to PHP (also?)

RE: [PHP-DB] Re: Searching Documents

2002-02-08 Thread Todd Williamsen
Neil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 1:33 PM To: Shrock, Court; 'Todd Williamsen' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Re: Searching Documents Court, Todd, et al > Actually, PHP does COM very wellsearch the PHP-WIN list about "COM" and

Re: [PHP-DB] Re: Searching Documents

2002-02-08 Thread DL Neil
Court, Todd, et al > Actually, PHP does COM very wellsearch the PHP-WIN list about "COM" and > "Word" and you should find some good hints and examples to get going. I > haven't accessed the keywords portion of a word document yet, but someone > wrote a spellcheck function that used the spell

Re: [PHP-DB] Re: Searching Documents

2002-02-08 Thread Todd Williamsen
Well, This application would eventually land on either Linux or Windows box, it would be for internal use only, so it wouldn't get wacked too bad. I know IIS5 has a bunch of COM built-ins. The problem of going to like a text based documents is that this is for resume management and 99% of the r

RE: [PHP-DB] Re: Searching Documents

2002-02-08 Thread Shrock, Court
correct to my knowledge. I am not sure even running ASP on a linux server would allow you to open the word documents, as I think ASP uses COM to do the dirty work. of course, you could always do the world a favor and not use microsoft's proprietary file formats in any way. an open stand

RE: [PHP-DB] Re: Searching Documents

2002-02-08 Thread Todd Williamsen
Now, if I do COM with PHP, then does this need to be on a Windows server? Currently it sits on a Linux box. -Original Message- From: DL Neil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 12:40 PM To: Todd Williamsen Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Re: Searching

RE: [PHP-DB] Re: Searching Documents

2002-02-08 Thread Shrock, Court
Actually, PHP does COM very wellsearch the PHP-WIN list about "COM" and "Word" and you should find some good hints and examples to get going. I haven't accessed the keywords portion of a word document yet, but someone wrote a spellcheck function that used the spellcheck built into Word using

RE: [PHP-DB] Re: Searching Documents

2002-02-08 Thread Todd Williamsen
Yes, I was thinking COM/DCOM, but then does PHP able to do that? Or do I need to resort to ASP(Awful Scripting Pages)? -Original Message- From: DL Neil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 12:40 PM To: Todd Williamsen Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Re

Re: [PHP-DB] Re: Searching Documents

2002-02-08 Thread DL Neil
Todd, > No one knows??? =or isn't telling? > hmm... I looked around on php.net couldn't find anything regarding this.. > would I need to do these searches in MS Word docs with ASP? =go ahead if you are aspidexterous... =the Word document format is proprietary information - ie not 'open'. So