Thread: Viewing Word Documents using PHP

Viewing Word Documents using PHP

From

"Kris-Jon Fenton"

Date:

12 February 2002, 23:51:09

Hi,

I am trying to view Word Docs on our intranet.

All I can get is a load of code.

Someone suggested that I use wvHtml - www.wvware.com - to convert the files
but I am not sure how to tell PHP to use it??

I have used readfile but still junk!

Thanks
Kris

Re: Viewing Word Documents using PHP

From

"Dan Harrington"

Date:

13 February 2002, 00:02:50

Internet Explorer views Word files natively...not sure if that matters to you, but
it works just fine.

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> Subject: [PHP] Viewing Word Documents using PHP
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to view Word Docs on our intranet.
>
> All I can get is a load of code.
>
> Someone suggested that I use wvHtml - www.wvware.com - to convert the files
> but I am not sure how to tell PHP to use it??
>
> I have used readfile but still junk!
>
> Thanks
> Kris
>
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Re: Viewing Word Documents using PHP

From

"Christopher Kings-Lynne"

Date:

13 February 2002, 00:13:10

This is not the appropriate list for this question - you should ask the PHP
general list on http://www.php.net/

However, all you have to do is make sure you set the content type properly:

header('Content-Type: application/msword');
readfile('file.doc');

Chris

ps. If application/msword doesn't work, try application/octet-stream.

pps. For a full list of mime types, the mime.types file in your apache
configuration.

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> To: pgsql-php@postgresql.org
> Subject: [PHP] Viewing Word Documents using PHP
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to view Word Docs on our intranet.
>
> All I can get is a load of code.
>
> Someone suggested that I use wvHtml - www.wvware.com - to convert
> the files
> but I am not sure how to tell PHP to use it??
>
> I have used readfile but still junk!
>
> Thanks
> Kris
>
>
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Re: Viewing Word Documents using PHP

From

Andrew McMillan

Date:

13 February 2002, 00:31:59

On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 14:49, Kris-Jon Fenton wrote:
>
> I am trying to view Word Docs on our intranet.
>
> All I can get is a load of code.
>
> Someone suggested that I use wvHtml - www.wvware.com - to convert the files
> but I am not sure how to tell PHP to use it??
>
> I have used readfile but still junk!

Now if it was viewing a "PostgreSQL" document, it would be on topic, but
I can't see any that are written in Word.

You need to popen() the wvHtml application and then do your processing
on the stream that comes back.

At least that is one answer.  There are others.

Regards,
                    Andrew.
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Re: Viewing Word Documents using PHP

From

Devrim GUNDUZ

Date:

13 February 2002, 09:52:52

Hi,

On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Dan Harrington wrote:

> Internet Explorer views Word files natively...not sure if that matters to you, but
> it works just fine.

I know it is offtopic, but this is a plugin of office 2000. IE shows word
documents if this plugin is installed.

Regards,

Devrim