Reading/Writing MS Word 97 documents w/PHP

Hello Everyone,

Does anyone know of a module that will allow me to read MS Word 97 files
from within PHP? I'm developing a specialized document management system for
my wife's organization and the administration needs to be able to create
"forms" in Word and have them converted to HTML forms by PHP. Basically, by
"forms" I mean literally something like:

Name: __________________

So I need to be able to read the Word file, see the "Name:" field followed
by the underlines and convert this into an HTML form field. This is
straightforward, of course, and the only obsticle I can see is actually
reading the MS Word files. Anyone have any idea?

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Extended Partition wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> Does anyone know of a module that will allow me to read MS Word 97
> files from within PHP? I'm developing a specialized document
> management system for my wife's organization and the administration
> needs to be able to create "forms" in Word and have them converted to
> HTML forms by PHP. Basically, by "forms" I mean literally something
> like:
>
> Name: __________________
>
> So I need to be able to read the Word file, see the "Name:" field
> followed by the underlines and convert this into an HTML form field.
> This is straightforward, of course, and the only obsticle I can see
> is actually reading the MS Word files. Anyone have any idea?

Way too complex and unreliable. Why not create the whole system in PHP?
Regards, Nico

"Extended Partition" <extendedpartition@nospam.yahoo.com>
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>
> Does anyone know of a module that will allow me to read
> MS Word 97 files from within PHP? I'm developing a specialized
> document management system for my wife's organization and the
> administration needs to be able to create "forms" in Word and
> have them converted to HTML forms by PHP. Basically, by
> "forms" I mean literally something like:
>
> Name: __________________

Wow... This is really awkward...

> So I need to be able to read the Word file, see the "Name:"
> field followed by the underlines and convert this into an HTML
> form field. This is straightforward, of course, and the only
> obsticle I can see is actually reading the MS Word files.
> Anyone have any idea?

Would it be possible to convert the source documents into RTF?
Unlike Word formats (there are, I think, four of them only for
Windows), RTF is compatible with all versions of Word and is
human-readable.

Failing that, you can always try calling Word itself via COM
(provided, of course, that your PHP apllication runs on a
Windows machine). This is bound to be a resource hog though...

Cheers,
NC

Try:

http://mc.clintock.com/first_floor/s.../php-antiword/


"Nikolai Chuvakhin" <nc@iname.com> wrote in message
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> "Extended Partition" <extendedpartition@nospam.yahoo.com>
> wrote in message news:<3f3d7caf_2@nntp2.nac.net>...
> >
> > Does anyone know of a module that will allow me to read
> > MS Word 97 files from within PHP? I'm developing a specialized
> > document management system for my wife's organization and the
> > administration needs to be able to create "forms" in Word and
> > have them converted to HTML forms by PHP. Basically, by
> > "forms" I mean literally something like:
> >
> > Name: __________________
>
> Wow... This is really awkward...
>
> > So I need to be able to read the Word file, see the "Name:"
> > field followed by the underlines and convert this into an HTML
> > form field. This is straightforward, of course, and the only
> > obsticle I can see is actually reading the MS Word files.
> > Anyone have any idea?
>
> Would it be possible to convert the source documents into RTF?
> Unlike Word formats (there are, I think, four of them only for
> Windows), RTF is compatible with all versions of Word and is
> human-readable.
>
> Failing that, you can always try calling Word itself via COM
> (provided, of course, that your PHP apllication runs on a
> Windows machine). This is bound to be a resource hog though...
>
> Cheers,
> NC