Nicole, I have no idea if its ASCII formatted or not. I wonder if there is a way to find out?
"Nicole Amashta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > OK, I am not exactly sure of the format of word docs off hand. But if they > are an ascii format, you can just read through the file using PHP and use > regular expressions to search for the words. Just a suggestion. > > That's just if it's ascii format. Read the whole file into a string, then > search the string with a regular expression function. > > > http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.regex.php > > Here is some help on regex's if you don't know already. > > Nicole Amashta > Web App. Dev. > www.aeontrek.com > > "Todd Williamsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > I have an application in which I would like to search MS Word docs with > PHP > > and I am assuming with COM to perform this. The Documents reside on a > Linux > > box(for now). Now I want to be able to search these documents with > > keywords. > > > > Is this possible? Where do I look to do perform this? Will COM run on > > Linux or will php, mySQL will have to reside on a Windows application? > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
