Douglas Temple schreef:
Hi everyone, I'm pretty sure that this question has been asked to death in the past, but I'm just curoius as to whether there is a plugin that can edit Microsoft Office Word documents in PHP. I'm interested in this because I am trying to put a text watermark on each page, but doing it online, without having to download the document, watermarking it, and then reuploading it (I won't deny that I'm lazy). So my question is has this even been done before? I've had a little search around and nothing exciting has popped out, so I'm wondering if anyone has used/heard of/made something as daunting as this before?
this comes down to using the COM extension - creating an instance of Word and using that to edit a file. this assumes the server is running windows and has a copy of Word installed. of course Word document is a vague entity - there are many different versions and they are not all compatible, from what I read I gather that the latest SP for the latest version actually made all documents written in previous versions unreadable because they are deemed 'unsafe' by M$ (this can be fixed with a registry hack) ... actually the parser for previous versions is unsafe ... maybe M$ should have fixed that instead of making everyone's archive of word docs unreadable. that said I have no idea if there are any *nix based word doc manipulators, if there are they probably won't work with all versions of word documents - the file format is closed and changes from version to version. you might consider switching to PDF? alternatively look at writing a batch processing script that runs on a windows server that can interact with the app on the server you alude to in your question.
Thanks in advance, DT
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