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[Dan Cech]

Janaksinh Jadeja wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I wish to read MS Word document content using PHP as like text file. Is
> anybody know any open source  PHP script for it. or any other way to do it?

One easy way to grab the text from a word doc is to use the command line
program catdoc.

here are a couple of examples to get you started.

Dan

function catdoc_string($str)
{
	// requires catdoc
	
	// write to temp file
	$tmpfname = tempnam ('/tmp','doc');
	$handle = fopen($tmpfname,'w');
	fwrite($handle,$a);
	fclose($handle);
	
	// run catdoc
	$ret = shell_exec('catdoc -ab '.escapeshellarg($tmpfname) .' 2>&1');
	
	// remove temp file
	unlink($tmpfname);
	
	if (preg_match('/^sh: line 1: catdoc/i',$ret)) {
		return false;
	}
	
	return trim($ret);
}

function catdoc_file($fname)
{
	// requires catdoc
	
	// run catdoc
	$ret = shell_exec('catdoc -ab '.escapeshellarg($fname) .' 2>&1');
	
	if (preg_match('/^sh: line 1: catdoc/i',$ret)) {
		return false;
	}
	
	return trim($ret);
}