Jim Lucas wrote: > 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 > "has yet"... what? Are you O.K. Jim? Did you die while writing this? -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
