Boyd, Todd M. wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jagdeep Singh [mailto:jagsaini1982@xxxxxxxxx] >> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 8:39 AM >> To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: 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 by William Shakespeare -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
