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[nycphp-talk] PHP & Word Documents

Mitch Pirtle mitch.pirtle at gmail.com
Sat May 7 18:24:09 EDT 2005


You can do this automagically using OpenOffice.org's UNO, more
specifically the Python-UNO bridge. Not aware of a PHP bridge at the
moment, but this is definitely something you could handle via CGI:

    http://udk.openoffice.org/python/python-bridge.html

-- Mitch

On 5/7/05, Joseph Crawford <codebowl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>  
>  has anyone here ever needed the ability to parse a word document?  I have a
> client that creates his newsletters in MS Word and wants to upload them and
> send them to his users in an HTML or text based newsletter.  This wouldnt be
> a proablem if i have ever heard of an MS Word Parser, i know there is an
> Excel parser class.. Is there a way to parse a word document?
>  
>  What i would need to do is take the contents of the word document and
> convert it to html, saving the images from the word doc to a directory so
> that the HTML links could show them.
>  
>  Any suggestions appreciated.
>  
>  Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Joseph Crawford Jr.
> Codebowl Solutions
> codebowl at gmail.com 
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