Boyd, Todd M. wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jagdeep Singh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 8:39 AM
>> To: php-general@lists.php.net
>> Subject: [PHP] How to fetch .DOC or .DOCX file in php
>> Importance: Low
>>
>> Hi !
>>
>> I want to fetch text from .doc / .docx file and save it into database
>> file.
>> But when I tried to fetch text with fopen/fgets etc ... It gave me
>> special
>> characters with text.
>>
>> (With .txt files everything is fine)
>> Only problem is with doc/docx files.
>> I dont know whow to remove "SPECIAL CHARACTERS" from this text ...
>
> A.) This has been handled on this list several times. Please search the
> archives before posting a question.
> B.) Did you even TRY to Google for this? In the first 5 matches for "php
> open ms word" I found this:
>
> http://www.developertutorials.com/blog/php/extracting-text-from-word-doc
> uments-via-php-and-com-81/
>
> You will need an MS Windows machine for this solution to work. If you're
> using *nix... well... good luck.
>
>
> // Todd
>
Ah, not true about the MS requirement. If all you want is the clear/clean
text (without any formatting), then I can do it with php on any platform.
If this is what is needed, here is the code to do it.
<?php
$filename = './12345.doc';
if ( file_exists($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 );
# (((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);
}
}
?>
Hope this helps.
I am working on a set of php classes that will be able to read the text with
the formatting included and convert it to a standard document format.
The standard format that it will end up in has yet
--
Jim Lucas
"Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness,
and some have greatness thrust upon them."
Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V
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