Re: [PHP] ms-word reading from PHP on linux O.S
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Per Jessen p...@computer.org wrote: Srinivasa Rao D wrote: Hi all, * How better, i can read ms-word doc files from PHP on LINUX OS*. [snip] *Is there are any other softwares that can fetch text from MS-WORD file?.* Word documents reading using COM in PHP have a look http://drewd.com/2007/01/25/reading-from-a-word-document-with-com-in-php Lenin www.twitter.com/nine_L
Re: [PHP] ms-word reading from PHP on linux O.S
On Apr 4, 2009, at 15:19, 9el le...@phpxperts.net wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Per Jessen p...@computer.org wrote: Srinivasa Rao D wrote: Hi all, * How better, i can read ms-word doc files from PHP on LINUX OS*. [snip] *Is there are any other softwares that can fetch text from MS-WORD file?.* Word documents reading using COM in PHP have a look http://drewd.com/2007/01/25/reading-from-a-word-document-with-com-in-php Lenin www.twitter.com/nine_L COM doesn't work on linux. Try using open office if available. What do you need to do with the doc file? Bastien -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] ms-word reading from PHP on linux O.S
From: Srinivasa Rao D * How better, i can read ms-word doc files from PHP on LINUX OS*.On searching I got *catdoc* softaware.By using this i can read word doc data as a text. It would be helpful to have a little more context. What do you want to do with the text you read this way? When I run across a MS-Word document, my browser is configured to download it to disk. Then I open it with OpenOffice.write and extract what I need. Bob McConnell -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] ms-word reading from PHP on linux O.S
Srinivasa Rao D wrote:
Hi all,
* How better, i can read ms-word doc files from PHP on LINUX OS*.On
searching I got *catdoc* softaware.By using this i can read word doc data as
a text.
function catdoc_file($fname)
{
$ret = exec('catdoc -ab '.escapeshellarg($fname) .' 21');
if (preg_match('/^sh: line 1: catdoc/i',$ret)) {
return false;
}
return trim($ret);
}
It is working well.
*Is there are any other softwares that can fetch text from MS-WORD file?.*
I wrote this routine a few months ago.
$filename = './lflf.doc';
if ( file_exists($filename) ) {
if ( ($fh = fopen($filename, 'r')) !== false ) {
$headers = fread($fh, 0xA00);
# 1 = (ord(n)*1) ; Document has from 0 to 255 characters
$n1 = ( ord($headers[0x21C]) - 1 );
# 1 = ((ord(n)-8)*256) ; Document has from 256 to 63743
characters
$n2 = ( ( ord($headers[0x21D]) - 8 ) * 256 );
# 1 = ((ord(n)*256)*256) ; Document has from 63744 to 16775423
characters
$n3 = ( ( ord($headers[0x21E]) * 256 ) * 256 );
# 1 = (((ord(n)*256)*256)*256) ; Document has from 16775424 to
4294965504 characters
$n4 = ( ( ( ord($headers[0x21F]) * 256 ) * 256 ) * 256 );
# Total length of text in the document
$textLength = ($n1 + $n2 + $n3 + $n4);
$extracted_plaintext = fread($fh, $textLength);
# if you want the plain text with no formatting, do this
echo $extracted_plaintext;
# if you want to see your paragraphs in a web page, do this
echo nl2br($extracted_plaintext);
fclose($fh);
}
}
This will grab the plain text out of a word document. Version 97' - 2003'
It doesn't work for the newest OpenXML document format.
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Re: [PHP] ms-word reading from PHP on linux O.S
thanks Lucas.This code is very helpful to me.
Re: [PHP] ms-word reading from PHP on linux O.S
Srinivasa Rao D wrote: Hi all, * How better, i can read ms-word doc files from PHP on LINUX OS*. [snip] *Is there are any other softwares that can fetch text from MS-WORD file?.* OpenOffice. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (1.9°C) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
